A buoy in Manatee Bay recorded 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday evening, as coral reefs suffer

We thought we were accelerating fast enough. Turns out we weren't.

Cornell researchers have successfully transferred key regions of a highly efficient red algae into a tobacco plant to dramatically improve plant productivity and increase carbon sequestration.

This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean moral…

It's similar to the Face ID failures of the iPhone 13's screen, later fixed.

The papers were not ready for publication.

Lee & Kim had been working on the material on and off since Kim was in graduate school in 1999 (LK-99 geddit?). Lee never makes tenure and is still stuck as an adjunct professor 19 years later. Kim goes off to…

The next trick to tinier transistors is high-numerical-aperture EUV lithography

Sukbae Lee, one of the scientists that the alleged superconductor LK-99 is named after, said the claims were in the process of being peer-reviewed

From reconfiguring the system to reconfiguring the user.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an established tool for sequential decision making. In this work, we apply RL to solve an automatic music playlist generation problem...

A Lesson from Go Proverbs for life.

Computer scientists always consider the worst case scenario because it allows us to edge against the risk—or, well, certainty—that something will go wrong.
The Web Environment Integrity proposal championed by a small group of Google employees is an example…

Nature Biotechnology - So sweet, no spike

Traits in psychopaths may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often maligned set of attributes and finding some positive twists

One of the unsung disasters of contemporary academic life is the death of the physical library. There are so many disasters in current year academia, I doubt as anyone else grouses much about this,…

A deep dive into Transformer, a neural network architecture that was introduced in the famous paper “attention is all you need” in 2017, its applications, impacts, challenges and future directions