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Month: March 2026

Math

Student serves up fresh solutions to the pancake problem

March 10, 2026 Phys Org

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The On-line […]

Technology

Aerosol jet printing creates durable, low-power transistors for next-generation tech

March 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

Tiny electronic devices, called microelectronics, may one day be printed as easily as words on a page, thanks to new research from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Building on […]

Education

Students with lower self-control tend to procrastinate with short-form video, study finds

March 9, 2026 Phys Org

Who among us hasn’t put off doing something we know we need to do while scrolling through just a few more TikToks, Instagram reels or YouTube shorts? New research from the William Allen White School […]

Internet

What makes a hit? On TikTok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform’s Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its […]

Computers

Deep AI training gets more stable by predicting its own errors

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

Artificial intelligence now plays Go, paints pictures, and even converses like a human. However, there remains a decisive difference: AI requires far more electricity than the human brain to operate. Scientists have long asked the […]

Computers

Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept bottleneck modeling is […]

Education

Study finds teens spend nearly a third of the school day on smartphones: Frequent checking linked to poorer attention

March 9, 2026 Phys Org

A new study from researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that middle and high school students spend nearly one-third of the school day on their smartphones, checking them dozens of times, […]

Technology

For precision tech, a hydrogen-tuned crystal could cancel thermal expansion

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a hydrogen-absorbing material shrinks in one direction upon heating, so-called negative thermal expansion (NTE). They found that this NTE is driven by a phase transition in the […]

Technology

Smart pillow lets users stream podcasts and music with hugs and presses

March 9, 2026 Tech Xplore

A “smart pillow” that enables people to access digital content at bedtime without looking at screens could help cut down on problematic evening smartphone use, its inventors say. Computing scientists at the University of Glasgow […]

Math

How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers? These physicists know the answer

March 8, 2026 Phys Org

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have done […]

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