Physicists Uncover Synchronization’s Secret, From Flashing Fireflies to Cheering Crowds

Physicists Uncover Synchronization’s Secret, From Flashing Fireflies to Cheering Crowds

Trinity College Dublin physicists have figured out how big groupings of individual “oscillators,” such as flashing fireflies, cheering crowds, ticking clocks, and clicking metronomes, tend…
What We Can Learn from China’s Mobile Gaming Economy

What We Can Learn from China’s Mobile Gaming Economy

For the past few years, the mobile gaming industry has been in upheaval, making it impossible to forecast what will happen next. China has had…
What Netflix’s Move into Gaming Means for Developers

What Netflix’s Move into Gaming Means for Developers

In the struggle for customer attention, Netflix views gaming as an important element of its future. Mike Verdu was appointed as the CEO of a…
Bringing Life to the Stars by Interstellar Travel

Bringing Life to the Stars by Interstellar Travel

The possibility of interstellar travel is no longer confined to science fiction but has appeared tantalizingly on the horizon. Although we may not see it…
Invisible Magnetic Bubbles in the Solar System are being Investigated by NASA

Invisible Magnetic Bubbles in the Solar System are being Investigated by NASA

Although space appears to be empty, it is actually a dynamic environment populated by near-invisible matter and dominated by forces, particularly magnetic fields. Magnetospheres are…
Denatured Alcohol – an Ethyl Alcohol with Toxic Tasting Additives

Denatured Alcohol – an Ethyl Alcohol with Toxic Tasting Additives

Denatured alcohol is ethanol that has been treated with additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating in order to discourage its recreational use.…
Furfuryl Alcohol – an Organic Compound

Furfuryl Alcohol – an Organic Compound

Furfuryl alcohol is an organic compound that contains a furan group that has been substituted with a hydroxymethyl group. It has the appearance of a…
Hubble Spotted a Tiny Neptune Moon that could have been Broken from Larger Moon

Hubble Spotted a Tiny Neptune Moon that could have been Broken from Larger Moon

It’s been called “the moon that shouldn’t be there” by astronomers, who discovered a new moon orbiting Neptune: Hippocamp, a 34-kilometer-wide chunk of rock. Hippocamp…
Stop Creating Self-Fulfilling Prophecies How to Apply AI to Small Data Problems

Stop Creating Self-Fulfilling Prophecies How to Apply AI to Small Data Problems

The digital revolution has given us an abundance of data during the last decade or so. This is interesting for a variety of reasons, but…
Microsoft Pulls in-Person CES 2022 Presence

Microsoft Pulls in-Person CES 2022 Presence

Google, Lenovo, Intel, T-Mobile, AT&T, Meta, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok, Pinterest, and now Microsoft are among the companies involved. In less than two weeks, the software…
Last Year’s Prediction of Galactic Gamma-Ray Bursts has Come True

Last Year’s Prediction of Galactic Gamma-Ray Bursts has Come True

Magnetars are strange objects that are gigantic, spinning neutron stars with some of the strongest magnetic fields known, capable of emitting brief bursts of radio…
In 2021, Space Investors Watched Stars form in Real-Time

In 2021, Space Investors Watched Stars form in Real-Time

The fast growth of the commercial space industry in recent years has prompted early-stage investors to examine entirely different sorts of businesses than they did…
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