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Researchers from Brown University and collaborators have found a way to directly observe electron spin in 2D materials like graphene, a property previously hard to measure in such materials. The team used a novel technique of detecting small changes in electronic resistance, paving the way for advances in quantum computing and communication technologies. Credit: Jia Li/Brown UniversityA group of scientists, headed by researchers from Brown University, have discovered a solution to a longstanding obstacle in the realm of…

It’s fair to say that reboots, remakes, and reimaginings continue to be the go-to methods of creating new content for any major studio, network, or streaming service, but there’s barely an IP out there that can touch 16th Century novel Journey to the West when it comes to sheer volume, with Netflix the latest to get in on the act with animated feature The Monkey King. For those keeping count – which can’t be many considering the quantity – there have been no less than 23 movies and 18 TV shows at least partially inspired…

Matthew Hayden, the Australian cricketing legend, is known not only for his exceptional skills on the cricket field but also for his association with Mahindra Australia. As the brand ambassador for Mahindra Australia, Hayden has been actively promoting their vehicles and expressing his admiration for their offerings. Recently, the ace cricketer visited the Mahindra SUV Proving Track in Chennai, where he drove the Mahindra XUV700 and Scorpio-N, sharing his thoughts on this incredible facility. The video of Matthew…

There’s a lot that shimmers in “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” a new HBO documentary that debuts Tuesday. There are the sensational handcrafted costumes — festooned with fake hot dogs, gay porn, maribou — made by the designer Machine Dazzle. There’s Anastasia Durasova’s makeup that makes a face look like that of a melting high-glam harlequin.But what really shines is queerness. Produced and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the film is an ultra-condensed look at…

Google’s programmatic ad product, called Google Ads, is the largest exchange and made $168 billion in advertising revenue last year. The company has come under criticism for serving ads on content farms in the past, even though its own policies prohibit sites from placing Google-served ads on pages with “spammy automatically generated content.” Around a quarter of the sites flagged by NewsGuard featured programmatic ads from major brands. Of the 393 ads from big brands found on AI-generated sites, 356 were served by…

Between 1993 and 2010, humans extracted and moved so much of our planet's groundwater that it contributed to the migration of Earth's poles.Just the contribution of groundwater redistribution resulted in a polar shift of 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) towards the east, according to a new analysis led by geophysicist Ki-Weon Seo of Seoul National University in South Korea.These findings allowed scientists to confirm that previous estimates of groundwater depletion caused by human activity are equivalent to a total sea level…

Image via Warner Bros and 20th Century Studios It’s debatable whether superhero fatigue is actually a thing, but one moviegoer has shared a pretty interesting take on the whole idea as they believe it to be responsible for the recent boom in horror movies. For the past few years, it seems that audiences have been turning away from superhero movies. While a few gleaming examples have been able to cut through the dreaded fatigue with the genre, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Spider-man Across the…

Groundwater extraction and redistribution by humans caused the Earth’s rotational pole to shift nearly a meter in two decades (1993-2010), contributing to a sea level rise, reveals a study in Geophysical Research Letters. The most water redistribution occurred in western North America and northwestern India, and efforts to reduce groundwater depletion in such areas could theoretically affect this shift. The phenomenon doesn’t risk shifting seasons but could impact climate over geological time scales.The shifting of mass…

For the first time, an international research team has measured the electron spin in a new class of quantum materials called “kagome materials,” potentially transforming how quantum materials are studied. This advancement could pave the way for developments in fields like renewable energy, biomedicine, electronics, and quantum computing.An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter — i.e., the curvature of space in which electrons live and move — within “kagome…

Astronomers can measure how fast stars spin by observing “starquakes”—seismic tremors that are the equivalent of earthquakes on our planet. Yet these observations have posed a puzzle because many stars seem to be spinning slower than they should be. In a new study, researchers modeled how a magnetic field could grow in the internal layers of a star, dragging its rotation down. Many stars’ cores contract at some point, especially toward the ends of their lives when they have ceased fusing hydrogen in their centers.…