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Air pollution from AI costs $20 billion and 1,300 deaths a year
UC Riverside and Caltech study reveals AI’s toxic air pollution footprint and toll on people’s health.
New study reveals how neurons regulate organ-specific functions
The autonomic nervous system arranges the functions of internal organs and acts as a link between the brain and the body. These functions are...
Graphene extends batteries life and efficiency
Since Lithium-ion batteries have witnessed a growing application in portable electronics and electric vehicles, researchers are keen to improve their performance and cost further....
New observation of a supernova explosion that was witnessed in the year 1181
Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D.
Biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen
That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.
Smart mask can be used to monitor a range of medical conditions
The state-of-the-art masks monitor breath for signs of health.
Researchers use traffic noise to measure soil moisture
New method relies upon seismic technology that normally measures how the ground shakes during earthquakes.
Caltech’s nanoscale device can reflect and direct light in desired ways
The innovation is pointing the way to future wireless communication channels.
New brain imaging technique uses a transparent window in patient’s skull
Functional ultrasound imaging can record brain activity through a transparent skull implant.
Enceladus’s plume strength may be due to the movement of tiger-stripe faults
Enceladus spills its guts through strike–slip motion.
An obscure class of galaxies briefly awakens sleeping supermassive black holes
Radio observations of Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) provide new clues about their origins.
New method uses classical computers to check the accuracy of complex quantum systems
Verifying the work of quantum computers.
Improving quantum computing using polarization
Paving the way for quantum imaging in many different fields.
Caltech researchers create bionic jellyfish to explore deep sea
Robotic jellyfish explore the oceans on our behalf, reporting back what they find.
A new method to search for deviations from the Standard Model of physics
Entanglement to the rescue.
Most detailed underground images to date of the Long Valley Caldera
California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakes.
Physicists detected excitons that are bound via magnetism
"Hubbard excitons" could eventually lead to novel technologies
A new fabrication technique for 3D printing objects a thousand times smaller
Scientists reinvented the technique to allow for printing objects a thousand times smaller: 150 nanometers.
Astronomers have discovered a two-faced star
Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.
The evolution of 3D printing nanoscale optical devices
Inversely constructed 3D-patterned mid-infrared metaoptics.
Earth formed from dry, rocky building blocks, study
Our planet's water must have arrived late in the history of Earth's formation.
Strong hints of monster gravitational waves warping the Galaxy
A collective hum of gravitational waves from many pairs of merging black holes throughout the universe.
Evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves
The waves oscillate very slowly over years and even decades.
Caltech’s new Morphobot flies, rolls, walks, tumbles, and more
The bio-inspired 'transformer' can move in a wide range of ways, saving energy and making it more versatile.
A first-of-its-kind wearable skin sensor can wirelessly detect the presence of CRP
Wearable sensor detects internal inflammation.
Storing quantum information as sound waves
A new method for efficiently translating electrical quantum states into sound.
An extremely warped supernova discovered
Its light was so warped by the gravity of another galaxy that it appears as multiple images in the sky.