Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded

Physicists Have Created the Brightest Light Ever Recorded

Jason Koebler writes: A group of physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Extreme Light Laboratory announced Monday that they have created the brightest light ever produced on Earth using Diocles, one of the most powerful lasers in the United States….

Scientists Decipher the Neural Code For Faces

Scientists Decipher the Neural Code For Faces

New submitter akakaak writes: In a new paper published in Cell, researchers Le Chang and Doris Tsao claim to have uncovered “The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain.” They develop a model representing each face as a vector…

Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study
How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money

How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money

An anonymous reader shares a report: In February, after almost two years worth of six-hour workdays, nurses at the Svartedalens elderly care facility in Gothenburg, Sweden went back to eight hour shifts — despite recently published research showing the benefits…

Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets

Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets

“Predicting magnets is a heck of a job, and their discovery is very rare,” said a mechanical engineering professor at Duke University. But after years of work synthesizing various predictions, material scientists “predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom,…

The Story of the First Human Head Transplant Won't Die
Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers
1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India

1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India

Complex multicellular life began 400 million years earlier than we thought, according to a Phys.org article shared by Slashdot reader William Robinson: Scientists found two kinds of fossils resembling red algae in uniquely well-preserved sedimentary rocks at Chitrakoot in central…

Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO
Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers'

Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers'

Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests. From a report: This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research…