Jef Boeke and his team create intricate works of art on Petri dishes using a palette of yeast paints.
When Masterpieces Arise from Yeast
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Certain fields of academia, particularly those influenced by postmodernism and critical theory, have become corrupted by a focus on ideology over truth, leading to a lack of intellectual rigor and a stifling of rational discourse.
Questions to inspire discussion.
What is the Sokal hoax?
—The Sokal hoax was a 1996 academic hoax where physicist Alan Sokal published a fake paper filled with nonsensical postmodern jargon in a Duke University journal to test if postmodern cultural critics would accept a nonsensical argument. The hoax exposed the abuse of scientific terminology to make political points in academia.
How Do You 3D Print Glass?
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Summary: Researchers developed a brain-inspired AI technique using neural networks to model the challenging quantum states of molecules, crucial for technologies like solar panels and photocatalyst.
This new approach significantly improves accuracy, enabling better prediction of molecular behaviors during energy transitions. By enhancing our understanding of molecular excited states, this research could revolutionize material prototyping and chemical synthesis.
Google patches CVE-2024–7965, an actively exploited Chrome vulnerability, urging users to update for security.
Discover how a patched Microsoft 365 Copilot vulnerability could have led to data theft using ASCII smuggling and prompt injection techniques.
Uber fined €290 million by Dutch regulator for improper transfer of European driver data to US, violating EU data protection standards.
Discover how NGate, a new Android malware, steals contactless payment data using NFC relay attacks. Learn about the latest cybersecurity threat target.
Ghost imaging in the time domain allows for reconstructing fast temporal objects using a slow photodetector. The technique involves correlating random or pre-programmed probing temporal intensity patterns with the integrated signal measured after modulation by the temporal object. However, the implementation of temporal ghost imaging necessitates ultrafast detectors or modulators for measuring or pre-programming the probing intensity patterns, which are not available in all spectral regions especially in the mid-infrared region.
Simulating particles is a relatively simple task when those particles are spherical. In the real world, however, most particles are not perfect spheres, but take on irregular and varying shapes and sizes. Simulating these particles becomes a much more challenging and time-consuming task.