Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake
A joint research team has made important progress in the field of photoneutron cross section measurement. The team proposed a substitution measurement method that avoids the use of expensive and hard-to-prepare high-purity isotope targets, successfully measuring the 65 Cu(γ, n)64 Cu reaction cross section with high precision. This method only relies on natural copper (natCu) and previously measured copper-63 (63 Cu) data, without modifying experimental facility parameters, making it simple, efficient, and low-cost.
The related research results have been published in the journal Nuclear Science and Techniques. The team includes researchers from Henan Normal University, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other institutions.
Artificial intelligence is booming. Technology companies are pouring trillions of dollars into research and infrastructure, and millions of people now interact with AI in one form or another. But what is it all for?
To find out, Nature spoke to six people at the forefront of AI development — people who are driving the technology’s development and adoption, and those who are preparing society to adapt to its rapid rise.
In this video series, they describe their greatest ambitions for the technology, their expectations of where and how it will be adopted in the coming years, and their concerns for the future.
There are quite a few copies of this Feynman lecture floating around out there, but most end prior to the question from the audience.
After the lecture, a guy in the audience asks Feynman about his safe-cracking stories and Feynman goes on for about another ten minutes relating three different stories on his safe-cracking while at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Enjoy!
Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 39,566 (2025) Cite this article.