The Economist

Will magnesium supplements help you relax?

In a study published in Nature and Science of Sleep in August 2025, 69 participants with poor sleep were offered a nightly dose of a magnesium compound. After four weeks, say the researchers, they ...
DATAQUEST

CEA-Leti validates first ultra-fast, battery-operated EPR spectrometer at chip scale

System enables high-performance paramagnetic sensing in portable and space-constrained environments where traditional systems cannot operate.
MusicRadar

“How did the zap migrate from its association with Klingons, to its more common description of Hi Q?”: How to conjure the spirit of early techno and trigger your own retro ...

How a sound design approach originally deployed for television effects became an electronic music staple - and how to make it yourself ...

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue

Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The ...
IEEE

Understanding Inductor-Originated Single-Event Frequency Transients in CMOS LC -Tank Oscillators: Causes, Effects, and System Impacts

Abstract: Single-event frequency transients (SEFTs) in integrated complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) LC-tank voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO), ...
IEEE

A 4.25–8.45-GHz 67% Chirp-Fractional Bandwidth −121.5-dBc/Hz PN at 1-MHz 88-fs Jitter FMCW Synthesizer With Fractional-Bandwidth-Boosting and Phase-Noise-Cancellation ...

Abstract: An FMCW frequency synthesizer features fractional bandwidth boosting (FBWB), phase-noise correlation and cancellation, a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) with fast look-up table (LUT) ...