Month: October 2022

  • Good sleep can increase women's work ambitions

    A study indicated that sleep quality impacted women’s mood and changed how they felt about advancing in their careers. Meanwhile, men’s aspirations were not impacted by sleep quality. The researchers discovered this finding in a two-week-long survey study of 135 full-time workers in the U.S. Each day the participants first noted how well they had…

  • Wind turbines could help capture carbon dioxide while providing power

    Wind turbines could help capture carbon dioxide while providing power

    Wind turbines could offer a double whammy in the fight against climate change. Besides harnessing wind to generate clean energy, turbines may help to funnel carbon dioxide to systems that pull the greenhouse gas out of the air (SN: 8/10/21). Researchers say their simulations show that wind turbines can drag dirty air from above a…

  • Your Applied Research Journey Starts Here – Technology & Applications | Weizmann Wonder Wander

    Your Applied Research Journey Starts Here – Technology & Applications | Weizmann Wonder Wander

    Weizmann Institute researchers are experts in leading scientific research in an academic setting: coming up with a groundbreaking basic research hypothesis, conducting research to validate that hypothesis, publishing their findings in a prestigious journal, and becoming leaders in their scientific domain. Conducting research that conforms to clinical or industrial standards, however, is a different matter.…

  • AI-Generated Fashion Is Next Wave of DIY Design

    AI-Generated Fashion Is Next Wave of DIY Design

    Could AI inspire your next ugly holiday sweater? As odd as it may sound, recent advancements in machine learning have made it possible. CALA, an “operating system for fashion” that helps designers sketch, prototype, and produce new products, is the first service to implement OpenAI’s DALL-E API. Its new generative AI tool is live and…

  • A Scottish fossil is helping scientists fill the gaps in the lizard family tree

    While lizards and dinosaurs trotted the Earth together, lizards were the one of the newer animals on the block during the Middle Jurassic period. Scientists are still unraveling their unique history. Now, roughly 166 million years later, a nearly-complete fossil of a lizard skeleton is helping scientists fill in some of those evolutionary gaps. The…

  • NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth – NASA Mars Exploration

    NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth – NASA Mars Exploration

    Perseverance’s View of Possible Future Sample Cache Depot Site: This annotated image from NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the first sample depot – where the Mars rover will deposit a group of sample tubes for possible future return to Earth – in an area of Jezero Crater called Three Forks. The image was taken…

  • A global beacon on climate change – Harvard Gazette

    A global beacon on climate change – Harvard Gazette

    Even that distress, however, points to the importance of an all-encompassing approach, according to Daniel Schrag, the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. During a panel discussion on Wednesday afternoon at Radcliffe’s Knafel Center, Schrag recounted a discussion with Matthew Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals,…

  • The virtual water impact of the U.S. beef network — ScienceDaily

    The virtual water impact of the U.S. beef network — ScienceDaily

    Animal-based products constitute a large portion of the average American’s diet, as well as the resources necessary to get them from field to table. But as food systems in the US become more interconnected and complex, what we choose to put on our plates — beef products in particular — often impacts the environment in…

  • Hyperbolic versus Euclidean geometry — ScienceDaily

    Hyperbolic versus Euclidean geometry — ScienceDaily

    Reducing redundant information to find simplifying patterns in data sets and complex networks is a scientific challenge in many knowledge fields. Moreover, detecting the dimensionality of the data is still a hard-to-solve problem. An article published in the journal Nature Communications presents a method to infer the dimensionality of complex networks through the application of…

  • Mathematical modeling suggests U.S. counties are still unprepared for COVID spikes — ScienceDaily

    Mathematical modeling suggests U.S. counties are still unprepared for COVID spikes — ScienceDaily

    America was unprepared for the magnitude of the pandemic, which overwhelmed many counties and filled some hospitals to capacity. A new paper in PNAS suggests there may have been a mathematical method, of sorts, to the madness of those early COVID days. The study tests a model that closely matches the patterns of case counts…