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China’s Floating Pavilion: Gender Inequality and Women in STEM
https://chinaobservers.eu/chinas-floating-pavillion-gender-inequality-and-women-in-stem/... ... read full post
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Researchers used an AI based on GPT architecture to map the brain, and they found it's way more complex than we thought. Instead of the ~52 broad regions we've been working with, the AI identified about 1,300 distinct areas. ... read full post
Big Crunch, here we come! A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark energy could spell a reverse big bang.
Electrons inside solid materials behave in a surprisingly similar way. When they gain extra energy (for instance, when the material is struck by other electrons), they can sometimes break free from the solid. This process has been known for decades and forms the basis of many technologies. However, until recently, scientists had been unable to calculate it with precision. Researchers from several groups at TU Wien have now found the solution. Just as the frog must find the right opening, an electron also needs to locate a specific "exit," known as a "doorway state." ... read full post
Using social media as an example, universities have a strong interest in promoting the work being done at their campuses far and wide. This is where traditional platforms fall short: algorithms typically prioritizing paid content, downrank off-site links, and prioritize sensational claims to drive engagement. When users are free from enshittification and can themselves control the platform’s algorithms, as they can on platforms like Bluesky, scientists get more engagement and find interactions are more useful. ... read full post
Paywall Bypass Link https://archive.is/CHGfz
Another Astrum, another banger.
What to you think? Could we find another Earth-like planet within our lifetime? Or any life later at all? Maybe with in a far-off exoplanet or even within the Sol System (out solar system)? Well, we can only hope. I certainly have a feeling that we may.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9650066
Another Astrum, another banger.
What to you think? Could we find another Earth-like planet within our lifetime? Or any life later at all? Maybe with in a far-off exoplanet or even within the Sol System (out solar system)? Well, we can only hope. I certainly have a feeling that we may.
A team of physicists led by Mir Faizal at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated that the universe cannot be a computer simulation, according to research published in October 2025[^1]. ... read full post
The CMS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has observed an unexpected excess of top quark-antiquark pairs that could indicate the existence of toponium - potentially the smallest composite particle yet discovered[^1]. ... read full post
The Earth's magnetosphere acts as a protective shield against the solar wind—a stream of charged particles from the Sun. This interaction results in a large-scale electric field in the magnetosphere, known as a dawn-dusk convection electric field, playing a crucial role in disturbances such as the storm-time ring current and substorms. We explored the quasi-steady large-scale electric fields and the role of space charge in the magnetosphere by using global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. When the interplanetary magnetic field is southward, a substorm growth phase begins. The large-scale electric field is in a relatively stable condition, in particular, on the dayside. In the MHD simulation, the positive space charge dominates the duskside magnetosphere, while the negative space charge dominates the dawnside. If the electric field is purely caused by the space charge deposited in the magnetosphere, the direction of the electric field will be in the dusk-dawn direction. However, the dawn-dusk electric field is established in the magnetosphere due to continued plasma motion interacting with the magnetic field. It is suggested that the magnetosphere maintains dynamic equilibrium through a balance of energy flow from the solar wind to the ionosphere. These insights improve our understanding of magnetospheric convection and the magnetospheric system. ... read full post
