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Virtually everything involves processes. When they evolve, you need to stay on top of them. We need an easy way to keep up. A new study by neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT looks at circuitry that helps…

Artificial intelligence models use statistics and probability to produce scalable models from complex data. These computations take time and use energy. Qilian Liang, an electrical engineering professor, has won a grant to focus on…

Silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are far from ideal. Although silicon lets electrons whizz through its structure easily, it is less accommodating to electrons’ positively charged counterparts. Harnessing both is important for some…

If you’ve ever been sightseeing in Prague, Czech Republic, you've likely stood in the square outside the Old Town Hall in awe of the Atomic Clock first used in 1410 and still in operation. A quantum clock is also an atomic clock that…

For the first time, researchers showed that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes – the two ways a charge is carried in a semiconducting material. This is a significant advance for…

NIMS and Osaka University researchers succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects, irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam. The technique may be useful in fabricating…

When researchers pulled sheets of single carbon atoms away from graphite to make graphene--the exfoliation technique paved the way for a wide range of two-dimensional materials with distinct electrical and physical characteristics for the…

Risk surrounds us. Researchers in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel set out to discover how we look at risk and developed a new method to determine how society perceives it. The meaning of risk differs from individual…

Theoretical scientists used topological mathematics and machine learning to identify a hidden relationship between nano-scale structures and thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon. A study describing their work appeared in the Journal of…

Salk scientists discovered an unexpected molecular target of a common treatment for alopecia. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, describe how immune cells called 'regulatory T cells' interact with skin cells using a hormone as a…