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Researchers have unveiled a new “super-efficient” artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate images by using a network of physical oscillators rather than traditional calculation-based computing infrastructure.The new model, known…
Science word of the day: CryptologyPronunciation: Krip-TAH’-leh-jeeWhat it means: Cryptology is the study of secret codes — both making them (cryptography) and breaking them (cryptanalysis). Once associated with spy networks’…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741]What’s in the photo? A giant, milky-green swirl on the lake’s surfaceWho took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board…
A common culprit behind severe gum disease may also stiffen and narrow the heart’s aortic valve, preliminary research suggests. This may help explain links between gum problems and poor heart…
After using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back toward the beginning of time, astronomers have proposed a radical new explanation for one of the universe’s most flummoxing…
More than half of Americans have a favorable view toward artificial intelligence – despite ongoing media firestorms around data centers and potential economic upheaval, according to the results of a…
It’s long been debated what started the 1789 smallpox outbreak that devastated the Indigenous population in Australia. Now, a new modeling study has the likely answer: It was brought in…
The skeleton of a wolf or bat you admire at the natural history museum may look pristine, but it wasn’t always that way — there’s a good chance flesh-eating beetles…
QUICK FACTSName: Mummy mask with wigWhat it is: A carved wooden maskWhere it is from: PeruWhen it was made: Circa 1000 to 1450This wooden mask, which is decorated with human…
Science word of the day: HeliospherePronunciation: HEE’-lee-uhs-feerWhat it means: The heliosphere is the region around the sun that’s affected by the solar wind, a flow of charged particles emanating from…