Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic’s polar vortex to reverse its trajectory. The swirling ring of cold air is now spinning in the wrong direction, which has triggered a record-breaking “ozone spike” and could impact global weather patterns.
New research from scientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University has identified a key driver of myelination, the formation of protective fatty sheaths around nerve fibers.
Many seem to think that the next total solar eclipse in North America after April 8 is in 2044. There’s actually one coming much sooner, in Alaska.
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The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.
As traditional top-down approaches like photolithography reach their limitations in creating nanostructures, scientists are shifting their focus toward bottom-up strategies. Central to this paradigm shift is the self-assembly of homogeneous soft matter, a burgeoning technique with the potential to produce complex nano-patterns on a vast scale.
A team led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan has succeeded in creating a strong coupling between two forms of waves—magnons and phonons—in a thin film. Importantly, they achieved this at room temperature, opening the way for the development of hybrid wave–based devices where information could be stored and manipulated in a variety of ways.
The study, which surveyed hundreds of university students, also found a link between heavy academic workload and increased ChatGPT usage.
With technology accelerating the transformation of work, we must replace traditional education systems with ones that allow workers to adapt and develop on the job #WEF24
The data surfaced online about two weeks ago and involve customer information from 2019 or earlier. There was no impact on operations, the company says.
