Number of words: 624 Rust is often associated with decay and disrepair, but scientists at Caltech and Northwestern University are looking at rust differently: as a means of generating electricity.Rust, after all, is nothing more than iron oxide. Thin films of it, as the scientists show in a new study, could be used to generate … Read more

Number of words: 359 Grape plants bear fruits having colours that can be deep purple or green. This colour is due to compounds called anthocyanins and flavonols, both of which are present in grape fruits.When the grape plant has a high amount of anthocyanin as compared to flavonol, the fruits are deep purple. When the … Read more

Number of words: 1,637 Solar energy is crucial to many futures. On the micro level, there’s a booming solar industry in America and across the globe. Since Congress passed a tax credit in 2006, the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) says that the industry has been averaging an annual growth rate of 50 percent in … Read more

Number of words: 398 When able, humans use their senses in tandem. Hearing a voice, a person turns around to see if it’s their friend. Touching an object can offer tactile information, but viewing it can confirm its true identity. But robots can’t use their senses in tandem as easily, which is why scientists at … Read more

Number of words: 2,653 Last year, a man-versus-machine showdown took place in the United States. 20 top corporate lawyers from across the country were pitted against an artificial intelligence (AI) software developed by legal technology firm LawGeex, where they reviewed and approved everyday contracts over a period of two months.The results were astounding. The AI … Read more

Number of words: 347 A group ofscientists have developed a way to translate brain waves directly into human speech, potentially giving patients who are unable to use their voices another way to communicate. While the science is still a long way from a method that can be used as an interpreter for people who otherwise … Read more

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: 2,371 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: 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