Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully traced the mechanism behind how an industrially important "superbase" catalyst is synthesized in a faster, microwave-assisted reaction.

In-situ quick XAFS measurements to unveil reaction mechanisms. X-rays were passed through a reacting sample under the influence of microwaves. The team discovered that a mononuclear intermediate ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

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Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

The algorithm development kit, based on Etiometry’s FDA-cleared clinical intelligence platform, is now available to support research and clinical decision making in high-acuity care units ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's beautiful, and no, Digital Foundry isn't talking about the Lost Ark. The tech-analysis outfit examined Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on ...

In context: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle might be 2024's most demanding PC game. It is one of a handful of titles that requires a GPU capable of hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and the game's ...

The system requirements for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have just dropped, and in the words of ever-prescient Short Round: "Okey dokey, Dr Jones, hold on to your potatoes!" The requirements ...