deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Faster parallel computing
New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the age of big data. [caption id="attachment_10011" align="alignnone" width="639"] Researchers have designed a new programming language that lets application developers manage memory more efficiently in…
The significance of seaweed
Carbon storage by coastal macroalgae is a significant, but neglected, aspect of the global carbon budget. [caption id="attachment_10008" align="alignright" width="392"] Intertidal macroalgae on the coast of Greenland. © 2016 KAUST[/caption] Our understanding of the global…
One-pot synthesis towards sulfur-based organic semiconductors
Scientists at Nagoya University have developed a short route to form various thiophene-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by simply heating mono-functionalized PAHs with sulfur. [caption id="attachment_10004" align="alignright" width="394"] Yellow and gray colors on the molecule…
Reading closed books
New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper. [caption id="attachment_10001" align="alignnone" width="639"] A new imaging system can read closed books. “The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed…