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Month: January 2025

Technology

Advance paves way for new generation of diamond-based transistors in high-power electronics

January 30, 2025 Tech Xplore

A landmark development led by researchers from the University of Glasgow could help create a new generation of diamond-based transistors for use in high-power electronics.This article was originally published on this website.

Technology

Independently funded jet’s sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel

January 30, 2025 Tech Xplore

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight Tuesday […]

Education

US test scores remain below pre-COVID, performance gap widens

January 30, 2025 Phys Org

US student test scores in reading and math remain below pre-pandemic levels as a worrying gap continues to widen between high and low performers, officials said Wednesday.This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

Problematic paper screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

January 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States? Or bosom peril? Kidney disappointment? Fake neural organizations? Lactose bigotry? These nonsensical, and sometimes amusing, word sequences are among thousands of “tortured phrases” that sleuths have […]

Technology

Skin phantoms help researchers improve wearable devices without people wearing them

January 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patient’s heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up […]

Computers

Fitness centrality: New tool finds critical points in everything from cybersecurity to ecological conservation

January 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

What if you could break apart a network like grating cheese—isolating its most crucial elements, fragmenting it into disconnected pieces to reveal where disruptions would be most devastating? That’s the power of fitness centrality, a […]

Education

Does your school have enough trees? Here’s why they’re great for kids and their learning

January 29, 2025 Phys Org

Do schools and trees mix? You may have memories of shady playing areas and shelter belts by playing fields, but our recent study suggests this is increasingly an exception rather than a rule.This article was […]

Technology

Mismatched training environments could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions

January 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively scrub the sink or take out the trash when deployed in a user’s kitchen, since this new environment differs from […]

Computers

Using network science, study shows music has become less complex

January 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

A team of Italian computer scientists from Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Padova reports that network science can be used to measure the complexity of a piece of music, allowing for comparison […]

Education

In this architecture class, students tackle gentrification in Boston’s Chinatown

January 29, 2025 Phys Org

The site of what is now the Metropolitan apartment complex on Oak Street in Boston has been at the heart of community life in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood for nearly a century. A hub for […]

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