Science & Technology
Cheaper method for making woven displays and smart fabrics — of any size or shape
Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles — incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage — that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same machines used to make the clothing we wear every day.
Nanowire networks learn and remember like a human brain
Scientists have demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain.
Long distance voyaging among the Pacific Islands
An international team of researchers has used geochemical fingerprinting to reconstruct long-distance voyages between central and western Pacific Islands during the last millennium A.D.
Putting hydrogen on solid ground: Simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth. This would be reason enough to study hydrogen, but its individual atoms are also …
How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain
A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and hypersensitivity.