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Apple decided to part ways with Intel CPUs at least as far back as 2018, but the road to actually jettisoning systems with the processors has been a long one. The end is now in sight, though: Apple made clear during its WWDC event this week that it will finally …

Using machine learning, a team of physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has studied the phase behaviors of superionic water — a phase of water where hydrogen atoms become liquid-like while oxygen atoms remain solid-like on a crystalline lattice — with unprecedented resolution. Hydrogen atoms diffuse easily between the superionic …

Researchers Confirm Existence of Elusive Phase of Liquid Crystals A team of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Utah has confirmed the existence of a ferroelectric nematic phase of liquid crystal first proposed more than 100 years ago. View of a new phase of liquid …

After 20 years in space and 13 years around Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins the final chapter of its remarkable story of exploration and discoveries: ‘Grand Finale.’ Between April and September 2017, the orbiter will dive 22 times through the unexplored space between Saturn and its innermost ring. On September …

In the final year of its epic voyage, on Nov. 30, NASA’s Cassini orbiter will begin a daring set of ‘ring-grazing orbits,’ skimming past the outside edge of Saturn’s main rings. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. Image credit: NASA. Launched in 1997, Cassini has been touring the …

Remember the commercial? This is your brain on drugs. One could hardly forget the stark image, the idea that using drugs literally fries your brain. And it’s true that the brain changes in response to drug use. How it changes depends on the substance, dose, frequency and duration, as well …