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Strange so-called fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them – a problem that DeepMind has used machine learning to fix Physics ...

Warning: Pakistan Is at the Broiling Point by Hadia Sheerazi |May 20, 2022 Many areas of South Asia experienced record-breaking temperatures in April. Source: NOAA This weekend, Pakistan was one the hottest places in the world. My hometown, Karachi, with a population of 25 million, buckled under 102°F (38.9°C) heat. Jacobabad and Nawabshah, home to nearly 500,000 people, were even hotter, with record-shattering temperatures exceeding 120°F (48.9°C) on multiple days. The 14-day forecast is even worse: Next weekend, Lahore is forecasted to hit 122°F (50°C). As searing temperatures sweep across the fifth most populous (and f...

An amphibious drone that can attach itself to other objects with a suction cup could be used to track marine animals such as whales Technology 18 May 2022 ...

Surprising new insights about the strange physics underlying how clocks work could transform our understanding of time's arrow – and hint at how time works at the quantum scale Physics ...