IU Ph.D. student Xinyu Zhang, left, and professor Mark Cheng examine equipment in the lab. Photo by Liz Kaye, Indiana ...

A finger moving across dry sand meets resistance that the eye cannot see. The sand shifts in ways too small for conscious measurement, yet something in the hand registers the change. Beneath the ...

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging ...

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Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

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After a pandemic-era return to Los Angeles, Kiran Rai embraced the home’s history—and her own—creating a retreat shaped by memory, not minimalism ...

The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...