When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

Yield loss is increasingly driven by molecular variability in thin films, interfaces, and contamination rather than visible defects. Reliability issues often appear first as parametric drift or margin ...

Nearly a century after physicist Erwin Schrodinger proposed a mathematical model of how humans perceive colour, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have finally completed the theory. By ...

Marușa Beca, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj. Abstract This paper investigates whether digital transformation contributes to export upgrading in ...

What the AI jobs panic is missing.

Background Remission and low-disease activity are recommended targets in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet many ...

Scientists at TU Delft have designed a nanostring resonator that, when driven at its lowest vibration frequency, quietly funnels energy through a chain of higher modes all the way up to the fifth, ...

Growing soybeans and corn sequentially on the same land, known as double cropping, is expanding, especially in regions like Brazil’s Central-West. This practice can boost farm income and land ...

This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, ...

To enable more accurate estimation of connectivity, we propose a data-driven and theoretically grounded framework for optimally designing perturbation inputs, based on formulating the neural model as ...