Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 711 It can be tough to recall that Intel Corp. invented the memory chip business half a century ago. It gave up on the field for more than a decade, starting in the 1980s, and has struggled since returning in 2006 to match the success of Samsung Electronics Co. in the historically … Read more
Number of words: 473 Choosing to forget something uses more brain power than trying to remember it, according to a study that could lead to treatments to help people rid themselves of unwanted memories. The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that in order to forget an unwanted experience, more attention should be … Read more
Number of words: 2,754 Thank you for being here. And I say “thank you for being here” because I was silent for 17 years. And the first words that I spoke were in Washington, D.C., on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. And my family and friends had gathered there to hear me speak. And … Read more
Number of words: 2,371 For the 100 years it’s been in operation, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio has been a repository for artwork by American masters, from preeminent 19th-century painters like Winslow Homer, to 20th-century realists like Edward Hopper and George Bellows, to pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. … Read more
Number of words: 652 Tank like devices called solar stills use the sun to evaporate dirty or salty water and condense the vapor into safe drinking water. But large, expensive stills can only produce enough water for a small family. Now, researchers have developed a new material that speeds the process of evaporation, enabling a … Read more
Number of words: 739 But then, having read his latest book, I actually know an awful lot about his diet. How he doesn’t eat sugar, any fruits which “don’t have a Greek or Hebrew name” or any liquid which is less than 1,000 years old. Just as I know that he doesn’t like air-conditioning, soccer … Read more
Number of words: 876 The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the process of deep learning has an outsize environmental impact. In a new paper, researchers … Read more
Number of words: 509 Slow-motion footage, X-ray images and computer simulations have shed light on how woodpeckers avoid injuries to their brains as they peck. Their heads move some 6m/s (20ft/s), at each peck enduring a deceleration more than 1,000 times that of gravity. But researchers reporting in Plos One say that unequal upper and lower beak … Read more
Number of words: 571 Gandhi lived too long. Returning to India from South Africa in 1915, at the age of 45, holding himself aloof from the established politicians of the time, involving himself with communities and groups hitherto untouched by politics, taking on purely local forces here and there. He then went on very quickly, … Read more
Number of words: 676 “The youth, the peasants, the working class, all with one voice must declare that we will not allow facism to raise its head in our country. We will not have dictatorships in our country, we will carry on our people’s government. This is not Bangladesh. This is not Pakistan. This is … Read more
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