Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units - a type of computer chip specially designed for AI - to other tech companies, a move that could unsettle the dominant chip-maker Nvidia ...
Researchers have directly observed Floquet effects in graphene for the first time, settling a long-running scientific debate. Their ultrafast light-based technique demonstrates that graphene's electronic properties can be tuned almost instantaneously ...
One side of the Moon always faces us: the near side. The "dark side" of the Moon began as a mere metaphor, but today, science can weigh in.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! ยป
Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy's species wasn't alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big toe for climbing but still walked upright in a .. ...
Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular "cognitive blocks" across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that the prefrontal cortex assembles these blocks like . ...
As we get older, our brains start to change in ways that make them increasingly vulnerable to disease - and a detailed new study of these changes points to a way some of this wear and tear might be prevented or reversed.