Language Diffusion
Mathematical models from physics can show us how a big language might eradicate a smaller one, Ida Emilie Steinmark finds.
Tagged: Physics
Emmy – Award Winning Mathematician
It was a standard GIST evening. Stacks of cake, cookies and sweet treats, and a brilliant topic of conversation – favourite female scientists.
Focused Ultrasound: Surgery Without the Stitches
Focused ultrasound or magnetic resonance-guided high intensity focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) technology is a non-invasive technique developed to target internal body tissues. In the 1950s, Francis and William Fry demonstrated that high intensity focused...
Combined data from the Planck satellite and BICEP2 rules out detection of primordial gravitational waves
In March last year, members of the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) experiment, based in Antarctica, announced results that appeared to contain measurements of an elusive physical phenomenon named primordial gravitational waves....
Big Investment in Science of the Small
Since the advent of the 21st century, more and more industries have had to adapt and develop at breakneck speed in order to keep up with the demands of our modern world. The science...
The Eye of Sauron Galaxy reveals a new way to measure cosmic distances
Recently astronomers have been investigating the “Eye of Sauron” galaxy, also known as NGC4151. It’s a big spiral galaxy and these, like most galaxies, tend to have supermassive black holes in the middle. Supermassive...
CERN Commences Study on Future Circular Colliders
CERN launches a five year study on the very large successors
to the Large Hadron Collider.
