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New research reveals Benham Bank as one of the Philippines’ richest deep coral ecosystems
Located near the eastern coast of Luzon, Philippines, 50 meters below the sea surface, is the Benham Bank,…
Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing
As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it…
New research could unlock the potential of bladeless wind turbines
Insights from a new study could help unlock the full potential of a developing form of smaller-scale wind…
How we really judge AI
Suppose you were shown that an artificial intelligence tool offers accurate predictions about some stocks you own. How…
AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
The system automatically learns to adapt to unknown disturbances such as gusting winds.
Newly discovered cancer cell energy pathway blocked with natural substance
Looking to nature for answers to complex questions can reveal new and unprecedented results that can even affect cells on a molecular level.
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WARF, UW-Madison again rank in top 10 universities for U.S. patents
An annual report issued last month ranks the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private nonprofit foundation that manages intellectual property on behalf of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, as 7th among the world’s universities in U.S. patents issued in 2015.
The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles
In a paper published by the journal JHEP, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
Summer school shines
Young scientists from all over the world have gathered for their two-week summer school course at ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy.
First major database of non-native English
“English is the most used language on the Internet, with over 1 billion speakers,” says Yevgeni Berzak, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, who led the new…