A new type of wood is challenging our understanding of trees. The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) may significantly contribute to carbon management thanks to its wood, which is neither hard nor soft.
The discovery, named “midwood,” offers a way to improve CO₂ capture from the atmosphere. How could this wood change the game?
A new device integrating 2D polaritons with an electrical detection system marks a significant advance in nanophotonics, offering superior spectral coverage and signal clarity.
This miniaturized platform could transform applications in sensing and imaging by improving light confinement and detection capabilities.
Polariton Dynamics in Nanophotonics.
OpenAI’s senior leaders recently participated in a Reddit AMA session, revealing their future plans and other insights. The session featured Sam Altman (CEO), Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer), Mark Chen (SVP of Research), Srinivas Narayanan (VP of Engineering), and Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist).
Model Development & Releases:
Q: Is there a plan to continue to release models in the “o” series from now on? Will you continue to improve on the “regular” models (e.g., GPT-3, 4, 4o, 5)? Both, or a combination of those?
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Winds pushed ash from the erupting volcano into southern Texas on Wednesday morning, a rare occurrence.
How small is “small?” Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. They’re invisible to the naked eye and cannot be seen under an ordinary microscope.
New evidence shows how we evolved to crave and digest carbohydrates and how this helped spur today’s carbohydrate consumption beyond healthy amounts.
MomentumSMoE: Integrating Momentum into Sparse Mixture of Experts.
Rachel S.Y.
Implementation for Contribute to rachtsy/MomentumSMoE development by creating an account on GitHub.
What took so long for humans to appear on Earth? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and life began about 4 billion years ago, yet humans—the only intelligent, technological species we know of in the universe—have existed only for the last 200,000 years. Why didn’t we come sooner? What factor(s) delayed our appearance? And what can life’s timeline here say about the possibility of other technologically advanced lifeforms in the universe?
