Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven ...

A lack of clear and consistent rules at the border quickly created chaos and frustration as Italy rolled out the EES system. Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP The rollout of the European Entry and Exit ...

Composed of five or more elements in nearly equal amounts, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have emerged as promising catalysts due to their compositionally complex surfaces that can accelerate chemical ...

Now, a study led by Northwestern University professors Chad A. Mirkin and Christopher M. Wolverton has solved that problem. A new three-component synthesis strategy enables simultaneous control over ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

Why some physical systems are accompanied by subjective experience remains unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Building on predictive processing and the Free Energy Principle, I propose ...

Adiabatic quantum computing An example problem represented by an energy landscape. Each point on the landscape represents a candidate solution. The deepest valley represents the actual solution with ...

In the early 1990s, when Stefan Merrill Block was in fourth grade, he began complaining to his mom about his new school, with its pointless rules and mean teachers. He, his parents, and his brother ...

Abstract: This letter presents a conditional entropy-constrained multi-stage vector quantization (CEC-MSVQ) framework for semantic communication (SC). The proposed method integrates multi-stage VQ ...