Machine-Learning Algorithms Could Help Debunk Twitter Rumors
Twitter is one of the fastest and most comprehensive ways of staying abreast of breaking news. However, it’s not always easy to tell whether these…
Twitter is one of the fastest and most comprehensive ways of staying abreast of breaking news. However, it’s not always easy to tell whether these…
As most of the world is still dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades, Japan is currently being considered as the potential host for…
The failure of the US National Ignition Facility’s six-year campaign to demonstrate fusion in the lab has the government deciding on a more methodical path…
Future combat medics could save the lives of soldiers, preventing them from bleeding out on battlefields, by injecting medical foam into their bodies. The scientists…
IBM announced an advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals for information transmission in future computing applications. “Silicon nanophotonics” allows the…
Samarium hexoboride, a compound that had been poorly understood and that can gain conducting properties at very low temperatures, maybe a topological insulator in its…
Scientists at Caltech have created a new kind of waveguide. Made of amorphous silicon dioxide and covered in a thin layer of gold, the nanodevice…
Nanoscale cubes of silver could help make more efficient solar panels, heat detectors and specialist cameras. The randomly scattered cubes were placed on pieces of…
Graphene can support 50,000 times its own weight and can spring back into shape after being compressed by up to 80%. Graphene also has a…
Scientists were able for the first time to capture on film a process that makes homogeneous metal oxide nanoparticles. This could pave the way for…
Underground nuclear tests can be detected in the skies and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful tool in order to detect…
Made up of mostly bulk metallic glasses, a new type of micro fuel cell could serve as a low-cost, long-lasting, and eco-friendly power source for…
The Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun) was created by theoretical neuroscientists to simulate complex behavior from fewer neurons. The scientists published their findings in…
GE’s latest wind technology development is fabric-covered wind turbine blades, which are supposed to even more efficient that the fiberglass that is used now. The…
The structure of DNA was originally discovered by using X-ray crystallography, which involves scattering X-rays off atoms in crystallized arrays of DNA to form complex…
According to the latest annual PV cost-tracking report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the median installed price of residential and commercial solar photovoltaic power…
Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory have tested a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design, which could power deep…
Most orbiting satellites point down towards Earth, but the satellites of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology look sideways. Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) look towards…