A new signal for a neutron star collision discovered
A bright burst of X-rays has been discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth. This event...
A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs
A novel technique developed by MIT researchers rethinks hardware data compression to free up more memory used by computers and mobile devices, allowing them...
‘Snowball chamber’ helps researchers use supercooled water to search for dark matter
After watching YouTube videos of people supercooling water in a bottle and then triggering it to freeze by banging it, something about this concept...
The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete -- roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly...
New quantum material could warn of neurological disease
What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that "thinks" like the brain does, which...
First direct images of a black hole
An international team of over 200 astronomers, including scientists from MIT’s Haystack Observatory, has captured the first direct images of a black hole. They...
Moneyball advantage peters out once everyone’s doing it
When former Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane used data analytics to build a low budget winning baseball team in the early 2000s, it...
New Technique Cuts AI Training Time By More Than 60 Percent
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique that reduces training time for deep learning networks by more than 60 percent without sacrificing...
UCF researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of...
Behavior of ‘trapped’ electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the lab
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic...
