Artist's impression of a split beam with vitamin B12 in a liquid jet. Scientists have developed a new X-ray technique that can capture ultrafast molecular changes in extremely dilute liquid samples - a breakthrough that…
‘Bickering’ flies make evolutionary point
Rice University biologist shows how aggression among fruit flies alters social environments [caption id="attachment_10759" align="alignnone" width="736"] Rice University evolutionary biologist Julia Saltz manipulated fruit fly populations to show that individuals are not merely subject to…
ETRI develops high performance, autonomous vehicle processor
Researchers from Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have developed a high performance processor for autonomous vehicles called Aldebaran. Increased focus by the automotive and IT industries on enhancing autonomous vehicle technology has increased…
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data. [caption id="attachment_10745" align="alignnone" width="628"] The researchers’ neural network was fed video from 26 terabytes of video data downloaded from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Researchers found the network can…
Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polymer Gels through…
A research team has developed new approach to strengthen polymer gels by changing the length of polymer “thread” per molecular “bead”. [caption id="attachment_10742" align="alignnone" width="1110"] The polymer gels, which were prepared using polyrotaxane (PR) cross-linkers…