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Subscribe via RSSSamuel Poncé and Xavier Gonze clarify how electron–phonon effects enter calculated total energies, reporting leading corrections of 3.8 meV per atom in diamond and 9.7 meV per atom in GaN.
By 2023 global life expectancy was close to its 2019 level, but healthy life expectancy was still lower. What HALE measures—and what that population estimate cannot predict.
An observation-constrained model suggests Thwaites Glacier could add up to 30 millimeters to global sea level by 2100, as warm water beneath a broad grounding zone may speed melting and retreat.
Scaling today's global life expectancy by 1.5 gives roughly 110 years, but the consequences depend on which ages gain survival and whether the added years are healthy.
Balloon-borne Sunrise-III observations reveal fine magnetic threads above a quiet solar region and changing fields in solar jets, offering clues to atmospheric heating without resolving how much energy the structures carry.
A reported 2025 study captured a skyrmion lattice melting while researchers manipulated individual vortices, offering new insight into control that may someday support efficient, brain-like computing.
Hobbyist T-Kuhn’s six-armed robot uses two cameras and a fast computer-controlled paddle to keep a ping-pong ball bouncing, turning a deliberately narrow task into an engineering challenge.
UC San Diego engineers used a reshaped ultrafast laser to switch magnetism in a nine-layer structure, easing two research limits while leaving chip integration and practical speed unresolved.
Apple says its M6 chip’s dual Neural Engines and higher memory bandwidth target on-device AI, while its speed comparisons remain company-reported and a new Logic Pro assistant is still in beta.
A published study of a garnet-type solid electrolyte finds lithium diffusion departs from a simple temperature trend above 400 K, while ion-motion correlations stay nearly steady; the mechanism and battery relevance remain open.
MIT CSAIL’s X-Hinges software designs 3D-printed objects with embedded touch sensors and up to three motion axes, while a calibration bottleneck leaves reliability across prints unresolved.
A 2026 Nobel award spotlights optogenetics, which uses light-sensitive proteins from algae to control selected nerve cells in research, while potential medical uses remain at an early stage.