4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (710+ words) An international team proposes replacing Hockett's feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system. For more than sixty years, Charles Hockett's "design features' have been widely used as a framework for defining what…...

5+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (450+ words) Rising global energy demands are pushing the limits of solar technology. Scientists in Sweden have now taken a major step toward unlocking the potential of halide perovskites. Global demand for electricity is climbing at a fast pace, making it essential…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (766+ words) A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have created a new tool that generates historically accurate images…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (340+ words) An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes" rule. The likelihood you assign to an event is influenced by what you already believe about the surrounding conditions. This is the basic principle of Bayes" rule, a…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (447+ words) An exotic phase of matter has been realized on a quantum processor. Matter can exist in different forms, or phases, such as liquid water or solid ice. These phases are usually understood under equilibrium conditions, where everything remains stable over…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (276+ words) Researchers in South Korea have created magnetic nanohelices that can control electron spin at room temperature. In a significant step for spin nanotechnology, researchers led by Professor Young Keun Kim of Korea University and Professor Ki Tae Nam of Seoul…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (457+ words) The difference between traditional computers and quantum computers is narrowing in their ability to simulate the scrambling of quantum information. A team of four researchers at RIKEN has successfully used two small quantum computers to simulate quantum information scrambling, a…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (192+ words) Datavzrd makes complex datasets interactive and easy to use. It works across scientific fields without programming knowledge. Tabular data is central to scientific research, whether in medicine, the social sciences, or archaeology. Yet transforming raw tables into something clear and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (270+ words) CMS employed machine learning to probe rare Higgs decays into charm quarks. The search produced the most stringent limits so far. Through its interactions, it gives fundamental particles such as quarks their mass. Interactions between the Higgs boson and the…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1128+ words) Unraveling a forgotten English tale, resolving a Chaucer mystery, and exposing a medieval preacher's meme. The findings, published in The Review of English Studies, stem from the recognition that a crucial manuscript passage refers to "wolves" rather than "elves," overturning…...