Decay

CERN’s ATLAS and CMS teams have found initial evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay into a Z boson and photon. The discovery, while not meeting conventional statistical significance, provides valuable insights and potential indirect evidence of undiscovered particles and physics beyond the Standard Model. Credit: CERNThe ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a <span class="glossaryLink"…

Yesterday, it was reported that a highly unstable sunspot, AR3311, which was responsible for an X-class solar flare eruption last week, has now entered the full view of Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite data showed a high chance of more flares erupting, with a possibility of another X-class flare explosion. However, today's data shows that the sunspot's magnetic field might be decaying and it lowers the risk of an intense flare eruption. But how does that affect the fears of…

MEXICO CITY —  Mexico’s leader has some advice for the United States.Take better care of your kids. Try more hugs.Cut down on the drugs and guns.Keep your cops, troops and spies off our turf.And leave Donald Trump alone.Those are some of the latest musings from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in recent weeks has been on a tear about the state of affairs north of the border. His riffs on the United States have veered from the bellicose to the bizarre, a barrage of muted threats, stern counsel and…

How do residual connections secretly fight overfitting?Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on UnsplashThe idea in broad strokes is fairly simple: we can render weight decay practically useless by making it arbitrarily small. Just a quick recap of what weight decay is: weight decay is a regularization technique that is used to prevent neural networks from converging to solutions that do not generalize to unseen data (overfitting). If we train the neural network to only minimize the loss on the training data we might find a…

In Borromean rings, each circle holds the pattern together by passing through the other two circles. Credit: Alexandr Kakinen / Aalto UniversityA Peculiar Protected Structure Links Viking Knots With Quantum VorticesA vortex structure that is impervious to decay has been identified through mathematical analysis.In a new study, scientists at Aalto University in Finland have demonstrated how three vortices can be linked in a way that prevents them from being dismantled. Curiously, the structure of the links resembles a…

Lessons learned from the largest transformation projects at IBMPhoto by Daniel F on UnsplashEnterprise Software Systems, regardless whether they are fully home-grown, on third-party or a composed mixture, inevitably age like anything else does in this universe. This phenomenon is referred to as bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software rot or software decay.Software decay is either a slow deterioration of software quality over time or it is diminishing responsiveness that will eventually lead to software becoming…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For the first time, footage of the Titanic in 8K has been released, allowing viewers to peer at the iconic shipwreck front and center. OceanGate Expeditions, a Washington-based, deep-sea exploration company,…

The ancient Maya believed their breath was a link to the divine. To purify it, many people filed, notched, and polished their teeth, some even decorating them with gemstones. Now, a fresh analysis suggests the sealant used to hold these jewels in place may have had therapeutic properties, which could have helped prevent infections. During the Classic period (200 to 900 C.E.), many lowland Maya people in what is now Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico affixed colored stones such as jade,…

While the world’s zombie obsession isn’t as prevalent as it was a few years ago, we’re still staged to see some serious undead action in the future. Undead Labs has a third entry in its State of Decay series in the works that will surely pit an eclectic cast of survivors against hordes of wandering undead as they try to rebuild a home in a brutal world. Each entry of the series so far has included action-adventure, survival-horror, stealth, role-playing, and strategy elements, blending genres into an interesting…