The Beaumont Enterprise

Exposure to everyday chemicals can add up – a toxicologist offers simple steps to reduce your dose

(THE CONVERSATION) Imagine an ordinary Tuesday. You wash your hair, put on deodorant, drink coffee, pack lunch in a plastic container and commute through traffic to get to work. At work, the custodial ...
Psychology Today

Anomaly Puzzles: How the Brain Detects the Unexpected

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

Why nanoscale droplets don't coalesce and microscale droplets do

Olive oil and water do not naturally mix. Water molecules are polar, having a net electric dipole moment due to the bend ...
Nature

‘Megacluster’ of genes enables bacteria to make potent antibiotic mixture

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...
IEEE

DAAN: A Deep Autoencoder-Based Augmented Network for Blind Multilinear Hyperspectral Unmixing

Abstract: In recent years, deep learning (DL) has accelerated the development of hyperspectral image (HSI) processing, expanding the range of applications further. As a typical model of unsupervised ...

A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
IEEE

Solving Strongly Nonlinear Inverse Scattering Problems for Mixture of Dielectric and PEC With Novel Contraction T-Matrix Equation

Abstract: The classical inverse scattering methods have been developed to reformulate the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation (LS-IE) for mitigating the nonlinearity, such as the new integral ...
GitHub

MoH: Multi-Head Attention as Mixture-of-Head Attention

We propose Mixture-of-Head attention (MoH), a new architecture that treats attention heads as experts in the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) mechanism. MoH has two significant advantages: First, MoH enables ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...