- Converting carbon dioxide into methane or ethane selectively
- Toward a universal quantum computer
- AI for cybersecurity is a hot new thing—and a dangerous gamble
- The World Bank is betting big on blockchain-based bonds
- Deep in the weeds: Using eDNA sequencing to survey pondweed diversity
- Fresh insight into invasive plant that blights UK rivers
- New study finds fake, low-quality medicines prevalent in the developing world
- Does rain follow the plow?
- Easter Island’s society might not have collapsed
- Tim Hwang’s FiscalNote is revolutionizing Washington lobbying with big data
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending August 11, 2018)
- A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine learning code
- AI model ‘learns’ from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic
- Researcher reveal insights into brain circuitry
- An ion channel differentiates newborn and mature neurons in the adult brain
- Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
- Lighter sedation won’t drop risk of postop delirium
- Parker Solar Probe launches on historic journey to touch the sun
- Breaking down the Wiedemann-Franz law
- First particle accelerator beam measurement in six dimensions
- Tough life in the savannah? Chimpanzee foods are mechanically more demanding than previously thought
- New water simulation captures small details even in large scenes
- Risk-taking, antisocial teens 5 times more likely to die young
- Amazingly ‘green’ synthesis method for high-tech dyes