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Machine learning and artificial neural networks allow graphene to become an accurate and general-use ‘taste taster’ — plus, how pacific-salmon migrations cycle nutrients and contaminants on a continental scale, and the 2024 science Nobel winners.
High-altitude observations may help explain how lightning happens — plus, researchers piece together a complete circuit-diagram of the fruit fly brain.
Frontier, the first machine to break supercomputing’s exascale speed barrier, is giving researchers unprecedented insights into everything from atoms to galaxies.
Jane Kilcoyne and colleagues took action after calculating that their biotoxin chemistry lab produced 4000 kilograms of waste per year, none of which was recyled.
Researchers have identified that a commonly repeated claim about levels of biodiversity on Indigenous lands is not only wrong, it is also counterproductive in conservation efforts.
AIs based on deep learning struggle to keep learning new things, but ‘waking up’ their ‘neurons’ could help overcome this — plus, how video games gave peoples’ mental health a boost during the pandemic.
A geochemical analysis suggests that Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from northern Scotland — plus, chemists have finally discovered how to break selenium bonds unevenly.
The Large Language Models that power chatbots are known to struggle in languages outside of English — this podcast explores how this challenge can be overcome.
As environments get more dry, plant species numbers drop, but the number of traits increase — plus, what the hottest temperatures for centuries mean for the Great Barrier Reef.