All-optical diffractive neural networks process broadband light
Diffractive deep neural network is an optical machine learning framework that blends deep learning with optical diffraction and light-matter interaction to engineer diffractive surfaces...
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear...
Novel material switches between electrically conducting and insulating states
Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a novel design strategy to identify new materials exhibiting a metal-insulator transition (MIT), a rare class of materials categorized...
Cooling role of particulate matter on warming Earth stronger than previously thought
The relationship between aerosols (particulate matter) and their cooling effect on the Earth due to the formation of clouds is more than twice as...
All pilsner yeast strains originate from a single yeast ancestor
Pilsner yeast, the well-known microorganism that brewers use every year to make hundreds of billions of liters of pilsner and other lagers, came into...
Unexpected pattern of fish species richness found in the Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin contains the largest number of scientifically described freshwater fish species in the world: 2,257 or 15% of the total number of...
Drone images show Greenland ice sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures
The world's second-largest ice sheet, and the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise, is potentially becoming unstable because of fractures developing in response...
A CERN for climate change
In a Perspective article appearing in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tim Palmer (Oxford University), and Bjorn Stevens (Max Planck Society),...
New treatment for brain tumors uses electrospun fiber
A novel engineering process can deliver a safe and effective dose of medicine for brain tumors without exposing patients to toxic side effects from...
Research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided...
New research finds missing link between soft surface adhesion and surface roughness
Tires gripping the road. Nonslip shoes preventing falls. A hand picking up a pen. A gecko climbing a wall.
All these things depend on a...
