Science and engineering

Team of professional and citizen scientists identifies tails of comets streaking past a distant star.

The ocean can seem like an acoustically disorienting place, with muffled sounds from near and far blending together in a murky sea of noise.

Imagine hopping into a ride-share car, glancing at your smartphone, and telling the driver that the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs two new spark plugs.

Good news, daydreamers. Your wandering mind may say good things about you.

Inspired by the human brain, deep learning is typically implemented for challenging tasks such as image and facial recognition, image classification and voice recognition. 

Some 600 participants including government ministers, policy makers and experts from around the world will gather at an IAEA conference in the United Arab Emirates next week to discuss the future of nuclear power, including challenges and opportunities.

The Experimental Lab will host senior executives and experts from every facet of aviation industry.

 

Women in the investment profession face a double standard even when objective information on their performance is available.

Materials with a special kind of boundary between crystal grains can deform in unexpected ways.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced the launch of a new high-end HPC product line, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA.

Experiments with coral polyps suggest "the plastic itself contains something that makes it tasty."

Scientists have long debated how the chemicals that led to the formation life on Earth first came to be. Tiny droplets suggest one possibility.

Peter Oundjian and the Yale Philharmonia will perform the world premiere of the International Bruckner Society’s new edition of the composer’s Eighth Symphony.

Existence of “silent engrams” suggests that existing models of memory formation should be revised.

Cloud-native, 5G-ready Nokia Smart Plan Suite enables new use cases to improve the user experience, such as integration with Google's Mobile Data Plan Sharing API that can provide innovative in-application offerings.