CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/cern-will-expel-hundreds-of-russia-affiliated-scientists-by-december/
But Geneva-based organization will retain ties with Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
5G Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into Base Stations
5G Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into Base Stations
https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-antenna-transparent-window
Compact, inconspicuous antennas could increase cell coverage transparently
Responding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility
Responding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility
https://theconversation.com/responding-to-work-emails-after-hours-contributes-to-burnout-hostility-229461
Boundaries exist for a reason.
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-paper-likelihood.html
Via testing with a skin stand-in, a trio of physicists at Technical University of Denmark has ranked the types of paper that are the most likely to cause a paper cut. In an article published in Physical Review E, Sif Fink Arnbjerg-Nielsen, Matthew Biviano and Kaare Jensen tested the cutting ability and circumstances involved in paper cuts to compile their rankings.
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/08/iron-as-an-inexpensive-storage-medium-for-hydrogen.html
Found: a brain-wiring pattern linked to depression
Found: a brain-wiring pattern linked to depression
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02857-w
The disease has a consistent mark in the brain even when symptoms are absent.
Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences — even when ‘offline’
Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences — even when ‘offline’
https://news.yale.edu/2024/08/14/sleep-it-how-brain-processes-many-experiences-even-when-offline
In a new study, Yale researchers uncover how the brain, during sleep, replays and bundles many of the experiences that occur in our waking hours.
In the Beginning, There Was Computation
In the Beginning, There Was Computation
https://nautil.us/in-the-beginning-there-was-computation-787023/
Life is code, and code is life, in nature as it is in technology.
Nontoxic ceramic could replace lead-based electronic components
Nontoxic ceramic could replace lead-based electronic components
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nontoxic-ceramic-based-electronic-components.html
The ceramic produced in Prof. Igor Lubomirsky's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science seemed too good to be true. It belongs to a class of materials that are the backbone of many essential technologies but that unfortunately also create an environmental problem because they usually contain lead, which is highly toxic.
LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English
LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02527-x
Large language models exhibit racial prejudices on the basis of dialect.