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December 12, 2025

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Scientists Reveal a Tiny Brain Chip That Streams Thoughts in Real Time

Dec. 9, 2025 BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, ...

This Tiny Implant Sends Secret Messages to the Brain

Dec. 8, 2025 Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to interpret these artificial patterns as meaningful signals, even without touch, sight, or sound. The system uses up to 64 ...

Scientists Uncover the Brain’s Hidden Learning Blocks

Nov. 28, 2025 Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that the prefrontal cortex assembles these blocks ...

A Single Beam of Light Runs AI with Supercomputer Power

Nov. 16, 2025 Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur naturally and simultaneously. The approach works ...

Breakthrough Optical Processor Lets AI Compute at the Speed of Light

Oct. 28, 2025 Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated diffraction and data preparation modules enable ...

Stanford’s Tiny Eye Chip Helps the Blind See Again

Oct. 22, 2025 A wireless eye implant developed at Stanford Medicine has restored reading ability to people with advanced macular degeneration. The PRIMA chip works with smart glasses to replace lost photoreceptors using infrared light. Most trial participants ...

AI Turns X-rays Into Time Machines for Arthritis Care

Oct. 22, 2025 Researchers at the University of Surrey developed an AI that predicts what a person’s knee X-ray will look like in a year, helping track osteoarthritis progression. The tool provides both a visual forecast and a risk score, offering doctors and ...

90% of Science Is Lost. This New AI Just Found It

Oct. 13, 2025 Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets reusable, verifiable, and citable. By uniting ...

Scientists Suggest the Brain May Work Best with 7 Senses, Not Just 5

Oct. 8, 2025 Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional conceptual space — equivalent to having seven senses. ...

Could Your Smartphone Detect Mental Health Risks Before You Notice Them?

Sep. 27, 2025 Researchers are showing how phone sensors can track patterns tied to a wide range of mental health symptoms. Instead of relying only on self-reports, clinicians may soon be able to gather continuous, real-world data about patients. The study also ...

Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Pixel That Could Put Holograms on Your Smartphone

Sep. 26, 2025 A team at the University of St Andrews has unlocked a major step toward true holographic displays by combining OLEDs with holographic metasurfaces. Unlike traditional laser-based holograms, this ...

Light-powered Chip Makes AI 100 Times More Efficient

Sep. 9, 2025 Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a core AI function. By etching microscopic lenses ...

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A Radical Upgrade Pushes Quantum Links 200x Farther

Nov. 13, 2025 Scientists have developed a new way to build rare-earth crystals that boosts quantum coherence to tens of milliseconds. This leap could extend quantum communication distances from city blocks to ...

Dark Energy Might Be Changing and So Is the Universe

Nov. 9, 2025 New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the ...

Artificial Neurons That Behave Like Real Brain Cells

Nov. 5, 2025 USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These devices emulate how neurons use chemicals to transmit and process signals, ...

AI-Powered Smart Bandage Heals Wounds 25% Faster

Sep. 24, 2025 A new wearable device, a-Heal, combines AI, imaging, and bioelectronics to speed up wound recovery. It continuously monitors wounds, diagnoses healing stages, and applies personalized treatments like ...

Why Tiny Bee Brains Could Hold the Key to Smarter AI

Aug. 24, 2025 Researchers discovered that bees use flight movements to sharpen brain signals, enabling them to recognize patterns with remarkable accuracy. A digital model of their brain shows that this ...

Scientists Just Cracked the Quantum Code Hidden in a Single Atom

Aug. 22, 2025 A research team has created a quantum logic gate that uses fewer qubits by encoding them with the powerful GKP error-correction code. By entangling quantum vibrations inside a single atom, they ...

Cornell Researchers Build First ‘microwave Brain’ on a Chip

Aug. 14, 2025 Cornell engineers have built the first fully integrated “microwave brain” — a silicon microchip that can process ultrafast data and wireless signals at the same time, while using less than 200 ...

Why AI Emails Can Quietly Destroy Trust at Work

Aug. 12, 2025 AI is now a routine part of workplace communication, with most professionals using tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. A study of over 1,000 professionals shows that while AI makes managers’ messages ...

Tiny Gold “super Atoms” Could Spark a Quantum Revolution

Aug. 11, 2025 Scientists have found that microscopic gold clusters can act like the world’s most accurate quantum systems, while being far easier to scale up. With tunable spin properties and mass production ...

This Spectrometer Is Smaller Than a Pixel, and It Sees What We Can’t

Aug. 2, 2025 Researchers have successfully demonstrated a spectrometer that is orders of magnitude smaller than current technologies and can accurately measure wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to the ...

Google's Deepfake Hunter Sees What You Can’t—even in Videos Without Faces

July 24, 2025 AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, UNITE, can detect deepfakes even when faces ...

A Simple Twist Fooled AI—and Revealed a Dangerous Flaw in Medical Ethics

July 24, 2025 Even the most powerful AI models, including ChatGPT, can make surprisingly basic errors when navigating ethical medical decisions, a new study reveals. Researchers tweaked familiar ethical dilemmas ...

This AI-Powered Lab Runs Itself—and Discovers New Materials 10x Faster

July 14, 2025 A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a ...

The AI That Writes Climate-Friendly Cement Recipes in Seconds

June 19, 2025 AI researchers in Switzerland have found a way to dramatically cut cement s carbon footprint by redesigning its recipe. Their system simulates thousands of ingredient combinations, pinpointing those ...

MIT's Tiny 5G Receiver Could Make Smart Devices Last Longer and Work Anywhere

June 20, 2025 MIT scientists have built a tiny, ultra-efficient 5G receiver that can thrive in noisy wireless environments ideal for smartwatches, wearables, and sensors that need to sip power and still stay ...

Quantum Dice: Scientists Harness True Randomness from Entangled Photons

June 22, 2025 Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

This Quantum Sensor Tracks 3D Movement Without GPS

June 14, 2025 Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a groundbreaking quantum device that can measure 3D acceleration using ultracold atoms, something once thought nearly impossible. By ...

Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer

June 12, 2025 In a bold challenge to silicon s long-held dominance in electronics, Penn State researchers have built the world s first working CMOS computer entirely from atom-thin 2D materials. Using molybdenum ...

How Outdated Phones Can Power Smart Cities and Save the Seas

June 8, 2025 In a world where over a billion smartphones are produced yearly, a team of researchers is flipping the script on electronic waste. Instead of tossing out older phones, they ve demonstrated a ...

Self-Powered Artificial Synapse Mimics Human Color Vision

June 2, 2025 Despite advances in machine vision, processing visual data requires substantial computing resources and energy, limiting deployment in edge devices. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a ...

Hitting the Right Notes to Play Music by Ear

May 27, 2025 A team analyzed a range of YouTube videos that focused on learning music by ear and identified four simple ways music learning technology can better aid prospective musicians -- helping people ...

Home Water-Use App Improves Water Conservation

May 27, 2025 A new study has found that a smartphone app that tracks household water use and alerts users to leaks or excessive consumption offers a promising tool for helping California water agencies meet ...

The Magic of Light: Dozens of Images Hidden in a Single Screen

May 27, 2025 New technology that uses light's color and spin to display multiple ...

New Biosensor Solves Old Quantum Riddle

May 23, 2025 Researchers united insights from cellular biology, quantum computing, old-fashioned semiconductors and high-definition TVs to both create a revolutionary new quantum biosensor. In doing so, they shed ...

A Faster, More Reliable Method for Simulating the Plasmas Used to Make Computer Chips

May 22, 2025 Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...

Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People to See in the Dark, Even With Their Eyes Closed

May 22, 2025 Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision ...

MIT Scientists Develop Tool That Makes Underwater Scenes Crystal Clear

May 21, 2025 MIT and WHOI scientists have unveiled SeaSplat, a system that makes underwater scenes look as if the ocean had been drained away. The tool cancels out water’s distortions and builds true-color 3D ...

A One-Pixel Camera for Recording Holographic Movies

May 21, 2025 A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The development thus opens ...

High-Quality OLED Displays Now Enabling Integrated Thin and Multichannel Audio

May 21, 2025 A team at POSTECH has unveiled a world-first in display technology: Pixel-Based Local Sound OLEDs that allow every pixel on a screen to emit distinct sounds. By embedding ultra-thin piezoelectric ...

How to Use AI to Listen to the 'Heartbeat' of a City

May 21, 2025 AI-driven “sentiment maps” built from geotagged Instagram posts reveal how city dwellers actually feel in specific locations. By pairing emotional signals with Google Street View imagery, ...