New AI model can fabricate talking avatars from a single image. Developers applied this model on popular paintings, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Mona Lisa. The outcomes have some visual glitches, but they are far impressive than previous...
A catastrophic collision of two neutron stars sent a small fraction of its precious materials to Earth. The event occurred 4.6 billion years ago, near the Earth’s solar system. Nearly 0.3% of the Earth’s heaviest elements came from this...
Researchers build the first-of-its-kind device to generate static electricity from falling snow. It can be integrated with solar panels to obtain continuous power supply in snowy conditions. It also functions as a self-powered sensor to monitor...
NASA will fund $6 million over the course of 3 years to support the University Leadership Initiative project. The project aims to develop a fully electric aircraft that would release zero carbon dioxide and no other harmful emissions. In order to...
Researchers use freely propagating electrons to see how light behaves beyond the limitations of wavelength. They were able to develop a new holographic method that captures nanoscale objects. It can open new doors for quantum computation. The...
The smallest pixel ever created can be used to build massive screen, large enough to cover whole buildings. These pixels are a million times smaller than those in modern cell phones. In recent decades, plasmonic metasurfaces have emerged as a...
Researchers develop a deep neural network that evaluates the ability of a camera to see clearly. Self-driving vehicles can use this network to make better decisions. Dozens of companies are working on autonomous vehicle technology and they all...
The genre of typing game was born of necessity. They were designed to teach people how to type on a keyboard. Games developed in the 1980s, such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!, used the novelty of the keyboard as a game mechanic to keep a new...
Cosmochemists discover water in fragments of an asteroid named Itokawa. Impacts by similar asteroids may have delivered almost half of the Earth’s ocean water. More than 332,519,000 cubic miles of water is present on Earth and 96.5% of this...
Researchers develop a mechanically and chemically stable interface that can increase lithium metal battery life without raising safety concerns. This superthin interface (10 nm) is made of boron nitride. We are becoming more reliant on batteries...
Researchers develop a new technique that might lead to an optimal needleless Hepatitis B vaccine. It is cheaper and eliminates the requirement of sterilizing needles and possible side effects like infection and swelling. Viral infections like...
Researchers propose a new method (derived from classical physics) to predict how economies respond to major disturbances. It outperforms all existing econometric forecasting systems. Understanding economies in times of crises is one of the most...