Can Sterile Neutrinos Exist?
Physicists have wondered if neutrino particles come in a mysterious fourth variety. Now new experimental findings complicate the question -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Rocky exoplanets are even stranger than we thought
An astronomer from NSF's NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After studying the chemical composition of "polluted" whi.....»»
Towards straintronics: Guiding excitons in 2D materials
From a team of City College of New York physicists and their collaborators in Japan and Germany comes another advancement in the study of excitons—electrically neutral quasiparticles that exist in insulators, semi-conductors and some liquids. The r.....»»
Investigating a long-standing neutrino mystery
Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious members of the Standard Model, a framework for describing fundamental forces and particles in nature. While they are among the most abundant known particles in the universe, they interact very rarely with matt.....»»
Scientists find no hint of sterile neutrino
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. There is no such thing......»»
Early Facebook backer to advertisers: "It"s your fault."
Venture capitalist Roger McNamee says Corporate America shares blame for the troubles that exist today at Facebook......»»
Early Facebook investor blames major advertisers for "turning a blind eye" to Facebook"s problems
Venture capitalist Roger McNamee says Corporate America shares blame for the troubles that exist today at Facebook......»»
AI Fake-Face Generators Can Be Rewound To Reveal the Real Faces They Trained On
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Load up the website This Person Does Not Exist and it'll show you a human face, near-perfect in its realism yet totally fake. Refresh and the neural network behind the site will generate.....»»
Finding sterile neutrinos
Experiments have spotted anomalies hinting at a new type of neutrino, one that would go beyond the standard model of particle physics and perhaps open a portal to the dark sector. But no one has ever directly observed this hypothetical particle......»»
Making surgical instruments from medical waste
In Dutch hospitals, over a million kilos of blue 'wrapping paper' is used each year to keep medical instruments sterile. After they have been used, they create an enormous mountain of waste. TU Delft researchers Tim Horeman and Bart van Straten, in c.....»»
Endangered status proposed for Nevada flower at lithium mine
Federal wildlife officials proposed endangered species protections Friday for a desert wildflower known to exist only on a remote Nevada ridge where an Australian company plans a lithium mine......»»
A kagome lattice superconductor reveals a "cascade" of quantum electron states
Researchers have discovered a complex landscape of electronic states that can co-exist on a kagome lattice, resembling those in high-temperature superconductors, a team of Boston College physicists reports in an advance electronic publication of the.....»»
Urgent action must be taken to save the critically endangered Sumatran rhino
Indonesia manage to conserve two of the world's five rhinoceros species. Both the Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) and the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) still exist today, uniquely only in the country......»»
Should Billionaires Try Constructing "Cities of the Future" in the Desert?
The Guardian looks at a billionaire's plan to build a $400 billion "city of the future" in a U.S. desert. The city — to be named Telosa — "doesn't exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, but the architects of th.....»»
Gamma rays and neutrinos from mellow supermassive black holes
The Universe is filled with energetic particles, such as X rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. However, most of the high-energy cosmic particles' origins remain unexplained......»»
NASA satellites show how clouds respond to Arctic sea ice change
Clouds are one of the biggest wildcards in predictions of how much and how fast the Arctic will continue to warm in the future. Depending on the time of the year and the changing environment in which they form and exist, clouds can both act to warm a.....»»
How poxviruses multiply
The last case of smallpox worldwide occurred in Somalia in October 1977. In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the eradication of the smallpox. According to official sources, the virus continues to exist today only in two high-securit.....»»
HP Envy x360 13 vs. HP Spectre x360 13
Although almost exactly the same size and weight, significant differences exist between the HP Envy x360 13 and Spectre x360 13......»»
Singularities Can Exist Outside Black Holes--in Other Universes
Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
CERN to provide second DUNE cryostat
Neutrinos are tricky beasts. Alone among known fundamental particles, they suffer from an identity crisis—if it were possible to put them on a weighing scale, you would unpredictably measure one of three possible masses. As a result, the three neut.....»»
Nestflix is an alternate reality Netflix where fake movies and TV shows exist
Web designer Lynn Fisher has taken these make-believe works and others, and rolled them into a searchable interface called Nestflix. Think Netflix’s interface, but for fake content. Neat, right?.....»»