The word “computer” was first used in 1613 to describe a human who performed calculations or computations. The definition remained the same until the end of the 19th century when the tech industry gave rise to machines whose primary task...
The history of roller coasters can be traced back to the 16th century when large ice-covered wooden slides were used as an amusement ride in Russia. The so-called Russian Mountains were between 21-24 meters in height and had a maximum 50-degree drop...
What started in 2003 as a small project is now the world’s most popular content management system (CMS). WordPress is now used by more than 60 million websites, including 33.6 percent of the top 10 million websites. What makes WordPress great...
Magnetism can spontaneously emerge in a non-magnetic metallic disk if it is illuminated by linear polarized light. Researchers theorize a new technique to create material properties ‘on-demand’. Magnetism is caused by the...
The new statistical method can detect AI-generated content. It works by identifying texts that are too predictable rather than just flagging errors in texts. In the recent decade, the natural language processing community has witnessed the growth...
Astrophysicists study 41 nearby galaxy clusters to reveal connections between hot gas, dark matter, and stars. The sum of stars and gas across the clusters is a fixed fraction of the dark matter mass. According to the Standard Model of particle...
The newly developed accelerometer is 100 times more sensitive and 10 times less noisy than conventional ones. It was able to achieve 1 µG level resolution. It can be used in various motion sensing applications, and medical and healthcare technology...
A new study shows deep magmas have more than 10 weight-percent of water. We need to develop a new technique to analyze how much water is actually present in magma. Few things in nature are impressive and frightening at the same time. Magma is one...
Earth’s interior structure [along with its composition] is one of the very first things students study in a school in geography/geology. It gives us a rough idea about the earth’s distant past and how life, as we know today, came into...
Researchers for the first time develop fully functional, programmable memristor chip. It can enable AI processing directly on small, energy-constrained devices, including sensors and smartphones. Memristor is a compact device capable of both...
The largest type of black holes — called supermassive black holes — have masses of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. The mass of our Sun is 1.989 x 1030 kilograms, approximately 333,000 times...
The new deep reinforcement learning approach named DeepCubeA can solve the Rubik’s cube within a few seconds. The deep learning model can be applied to various other fields, including robotics and natural sciences. Artificial Intelligence...