
Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive
New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
Ken Brown adds context to various recent reports of advances in error correction for quantum computing
New faculty member Xiang Cheng exploits geometric patterns in data and algorithms to find better ways to train advanced AI programs
New faculty member Afsaneh Rahbar is taking her love of mathematics and logic to teach the next generation of great computational thinkers
Michael Reiter won the 2024 Lasting Research Award from the ACM CODASPY
Award recognizes advances to detect and estimate software aging in the UNIX operating system
Interpretable model almost doubles medical professionals’ accuracy while showing its work, assisting their decision making rather than telling them what to do
Without changes, thousands of academic papers could be sent to chatbots as reviewers without the knowledge of the authors, Cynthia Rudin warns.
ECE Ph.D. student Zehao Wang contributed to four papers and received awards at the world’s premier event for optical networking and communication
Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim write that undermining the Bayh-Dole system could massively stifle new advances in quantum computing and other technologies
Research aims to allow the computationally heavy fine tuning of large language models on users’ own mobile devices
Cynthia Rudin, a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee focused on FRT, discusses the critical issue of surveillance by government and private actors.