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Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...

A 40-year-old forgotten paper helped UChicago scientists develop a faster, more efficient method for synthesizing MXenes at a ...

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to ...

Tech companies that want to seriously prevent illegal A.I.-generated sexual imagery need to be given the right incentives to ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

If you’ve got a decent CRT monitor, you can usually adjust the settings to make sure the image scans nicely across the whole ...

As the “Predictability Era” Ends, Global Summits, Corporate Conferences, and Boards Turn to Spitz’s “Operating System” ...

A research team from Peking University has successfully developed a vanadium oxide (VO₂)-based “locally active memristive ...

Researchers identified a major decline in neural activity and retention when students used AI for writing. We need to empower ...

Abstract: This article addresses the problem of prescribed-time stabilization of nonlinear systems with the features of unknown control directions and time-varying uncertain parameters based on a time ...