Analogue speech recognition based on physical computing
RNPU fabrication and room-temperature operation A lightly n-doped silicon wafer (resistivity ρ ≈ 5 Ω cm) is cleaned and heated for 4 h…
The potential bidirectional relationship between long COVID and menstruation
Online COVID and reproductive health survey The study, titled “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Women’s Reproductive Health” received a…
Mysterious changes near Earth’s core revealed by satellites in space
Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious…
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought…
Analytical construction and visualization of nonlinear waves in the (2+1) dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Sawada-Kotera-Ramani equation with stability analysis
The steps of the improved modified extended Tanh method that were explained in the preceding section will be…
should research on mirror-image molecular biology be stopped?
In theory, all biological structures, functions and even organisms could be recreated in their mirror image, leading to…
How should ‘mirror life’ research be restricted? Debate heats up
Some researchers are developing biological systems that create mirror-image versions of DNA and other molecules crucial to life.Credit:…
how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…
black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facility, in Hanford, Washington.Credit: IMAGO/Xinhua via Alamy Ten years after the historic…
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by artificial…
Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer
Experimental system We use the experimental apparatus previously described in refs. 6,9,12,38,57, with key upgrades that enable efficient…