Physics

By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing. MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat instead of electricity. These …

📖Read Time: 3 minutes 📊Readability: Easy (6th-7th grade) 🔖Core Topics: ai, codecs, based, netflix, evc Introduction Modern Video codecs are all based on similar principles.   Recently, these have been complemented by AI techniques, such as super-resolution, to form hybrid codecs.  …

My top 10 ghosts (solo acts and ensembles). If Bruce Willis being a ghost in The Sixth Sense is a spoiler, that’s on you — the movie has been out for 26 years. Einstein and I have both been spooked …

Why does light exist? It’s a consequence of what physicists call a "gauge symmetry" and in today’s video I do my best to try and explain how that works. Source link

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Grains of pollen are caught amid droplets on a spider’s web in this award-winning image by John-Oliver Dum. How droplets behave on fibers has been a popular topic in recent years with research on how droplets nestle into corners, how …

Four years ago, after the decision to have the 2026 ICM in the US was announced, I wrote: With the 2022 experience in mind, hopefully the IMU will for next time have prepared a plan for what to do in …

Key Takeaways Scientists have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The extremely oxygen- and water-sensitive complex was formed from 0.3 milligram of berkelium-249 using specialized facilities for handling air-sensitive and radioactive materials. …

One hundred years ago today, on January 26, 1926, Scottish inventor and engineer John Logie Baird conducted the world’s first public demonstration of live television in London to members of the Royal Institution. (For Doctor Who fans, Baird’s name might …

Artist’s concept of JWST The 25th December marks an anniversary in the world of astronomy (as well as Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, of course) – the launch of JWST, the infrared space telescope launched to explore the Universe in unprecedented …