Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain South Korean smartphone giant Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time translation service on calls using AI technology next year, a company representative told AFP on…
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Lack of friend or family visits is associated with increased risk of dying
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Never being visited by friends or family is associated with an increased risk of dying, according to a study published in BMC Medicine. The authors suggest…
How hummingbirds fly through spaces too narrow for their wings
Hummingbirds are natural acrobats, twisting their wings in ways that let them fly backward and upside down, unlike any other bird (SN: 1/13/16). New high-speed video now shows how, using…
Ultrafast lasers on ultra-tiny chips
A nanophotonic mode-locked laser built on lithium niobate emits a beam of green laser light. Credit: Caltech Lasers have become relatively commonplace in everyday life, but they have many uses…
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft’s photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light…
Archaeologists search for missing persons from the October 7th massacre |
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have been enlisted by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) to search for remains of missing persons from the 7th October…
Study leverages chiral phonons for transformative quantum effect
Chiral phonons excited by the circularly polarized terahertz light pulses generate ultrafast magnetization in cerium fluoride. Fluorine ions (red, fuchsia) are set into motion by circularly polarized terahertz light pulses…
COVID-linked loss of smell, taste found to resolve by 3 years after infection
There’s good news for folks who lost some of their sense of taste and smell after a bout of mild COVID: New research shows this side effect largely resolves by…
Five things to know about the blockbuster GTA games
The next title in the GTA series is widely expected to be the biggest game of the decade. Rockstar Games, the studio behind the blockbuster Grand Theft Auto series, has…
