Using a thin layer of diamond to manage excessive heat, MIT engineers can boost the speed and energy-efficiency of next-generation wireless devices.
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Eye contact helps infants ‘tune in’ to speaker’s brainwaves and learn language
Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronize their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists in Cambridge and Singapore have shown.
Infants are surrounded by a vast range of stimuli that compete for their attention—sights, sounds and voices—and must somehow work out which things are worth paying attention to and learning from. To do this, they often rely on social cues—eye contact, “baby talk” or someone calling their name, for example—but how this helps with learning is not clear.
Victoria Leong and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, have previously shown that when an infant and adult make eye contact, their brainwaves synchronize with each other.
PRX Intelligence publishes its first papers
The American Physical Society’s newest highly selective, open access journal, PRX Intelligence, has published its inaugural papers. The studies demonstrate how artificial intelligence and machine learning methods can be used to advance scientific knowledge and capabilities across the physical sciences — from neural networks that streamline molecular simulations to data-driven learning schemes that accelerate quantum embedding workflows.
As AI and machine learning transform the physical sciences, PRX Intelligence is designed to provide a multidisciplinary platform for research pioneering the development and application of these approaches. Building on the foundation of Physical Review X, the journal publishes open access articles expected to have substantial and lasting impact. It welcomes studies that apply AI and machine learning across theory, simulation, and experimentation in physics and related fields — including computer science, mathematics, engineering, materials science, chemistry, biology, and earth and environmental sciences. Relevant topics include discovery and synthesis, physics-informed learning, data-driven approaches, machine learning pipelines for observational platforms, and more. Articles have flexible formats and lengths and may include research papers, perspectives, roadmaps, tutorials, and more.
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Earth’s Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface
The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll – or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered onion, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity.
Although only several handfuls (39 fingers’ worth, to be exact) of people have alighted on the ocean’s deepest depths or upon the surface of the Moon, there’s one relatively nearby alien environment that no human will ever personally explore: the Earth’s core.
Approaching it, each Earthly layer differs in composition and increases in pressure and temperature, displaying unique material properties that become murkier the deeper we delve.
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Zoox gets the green light to offer paid rides
The Department of Transportation has approved a request from the driverless vehicle company Zoox to start offering rides to paying customers. A California-based company owned by Amazon, Zoox has been testing its driverless electric vehicle with free rides. Now, it has approval to commercially deploy up to 5,000 vehicles over the next two years, starting in Las Vegas. Unlike Google’s Waymo, which adds driverless technology to existing vehicles, Zoox’s vehicles look like a box on wheels and don’t have steering wheels or pedals. Find “NPR News Now” wherever you listen to podcasts. Host: Jeanine Herbst/NPR Reporter: Camila Domonoske/NPR Producer: Michael Zamora/NPR
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