2020-07-06 CNRS What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? …In 1904, the Swedish physicist and oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman showed in a laboratory that waves formed under the…
2020-07-01 William Charles Louis and Richard G. Van de Water The most likely solution was a new neutrino—a “sterile” neutrino, so called because it would not interact with other matter in any way except through gravity.
2020-06-30 Daniel Oberhaus “It is physically impossible—as in, against the laws of physics—for triso to melt in a reactor,” says Sell. “And when you start with a reactor that can’t melt, your safety case completely changes.”
2019-12-06 Dwight Stirling When police are revealed to have killed an unarmed suspect or used excessive force during arrest, police generally defend those actions. Cops who report wrongdoing are routinely ostracized as “rats” and denied promotions, according to a 1998…
2020-02-02 Raluca Budiu Results showed that light mode won across all dimensions: irrespective of age [of the individual], the positive contrast polarity [light mode] was better for both visual-acuity tasks and for proofreading tasks.
2020-06-08 Chris Lee Hydrogen, in low concentrations in a confined space, burns with a branching network instead of with a wide flame.
2020-05-29 Blender Animation Studio Fueled by caffeine, a young woman runs through the bittersweet memories of her past relationship. Get the production files, assets, tutorials and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Cloud at Discovered from
2019-12-16 Elena Renken Scientists are beginning to understand one of the ways in which sleep may benefit the health of the brain: by organizing the flow of fluids that can wash away harmful build-ups of proteins and wastes around neurons.…
2020-05-13 CNRS “The trails that we see are actually casts, corresponding to the base of the sauropods’ feet,” Moreau explains. “It’s as if you were looking at the tracks left by the dinosaurs from below. What happened is that infiltrated…
2020-04-30 Kim Martineau They showed that a deep neural network could perform with only one-tenth the number of connections if the right subnetwork was found early in training. Train the model, prune its weakest connections, retrain the model at…