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April 24, 2024

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Are These Newly Found Rare Cells a Missing Link in Color Perception?

Apr. 15, 2024 — Using adaptive optics, scientists have identified elusive retinal ganglion cells in the eye's fovea that could explain how humans see red, green, blue, and ...

Waterproof 'E-Glove' Could Help Scuba Divers Communicate

Apr. 10, 2024 — When scuba divers need to say 'I'm okay' or 'Shark!' to their dive partners, they use hand signals to communicate visually. But sometimes these movements are difficult to see. Now, researchers have constructed a waterproof 'e-glove' that wirelessly ...

I Spy With My Speedy Eye: Scientists Discover Speed of Visual Perception Ranges Widely in Humans

Apr. 1, 2024 — Using a blink-and-you'll-miss-it experiment, researchers have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which they perceive visual signals. Some people perceive a rapidly changing ...

Artificial Intelligence Boosts Super-Resolution Microscopy

Mar. 28, 2024 — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more different scientific ...

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Super Mario Hackers' Tricks Could Protect Software from Bugs

Apr. 23, 2024 — Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...

New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels

Apr. 9, 2024 — A team has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state -- an exotic quantum phenomenon that could help researchers advance quantum ...

A Pulse of Innovation: AI at the Service of Heart Research

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers unveiled BeatProfiler, a groundbreaking new tool -- a comprehensive software that automates the analysis of heart cell function from video data. It's the first system to integrate the ...

Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of 3-D Magnetic Recording

Apr. 8, 2024 — Research groups have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk drives (HDD) by demonstrating the feasibility of multi-level recording using a three-dimensional magnetic recording medium to store ...

An Innovative Mixed Light Field Technique for Immersive Projection Mapping

Mar. 18, 2024 — A novel mixed light field technique that utilizes a mix of ray-controlled ambient lighting with projection mapping (PM) to obtain PM in bright surroundings has been developed by scientists. This ...

Projection Mapping Leaves the Darkness Behind

Mar. 18, 2024 — Researchers developed a system that enables projection mapping within an illuminated environment. Several standard projectors and one large-aperture projector reproduce the environmental illumination ...

Holographic Message Encoded in Simple Plastic

Mar. 18, 2024 — Important data can be stored and concealed quite easily in ordinary plastic using 3D printers and terahertz radiation, scientists show. Holography can be done quite easily: A 3D printer can be used ...

Straightening Teeth? AI Can Help

Mar. 13, 2024 — A new tool will help orthodontists correctly fit braces onto teeth. Using artificial intelligence and virtual patients, the tool predicts how teeth will move, so as to ensure that braces are neither ...

New AI Technology Enables 3D Capture and Editing of Real-Life Objects

Mar. 13, 2024 — Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle -- this is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances ...

Accessibility Toolkit for Game Engine Unity

Mar. 11, 2024 — New work makes it easier for game developers to implement game aids for people with disabilities. The toolkit focuses on players with visual ...

New Software Enables Blind and Low-Vision Users to Create Interactive, Accessible Charts

Mar. 27, 2024 — Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and ...

Can You Tell AI-Generated People from Real Ones?

Mar. 6, 2024 — If you recently had trouble figuring out if an image of a person is real or generated through artificial intelligence (AI), you're not alone. A new study found that people had more difficulty ...

Reimagining Electron Microscopy: Bringing High-End Resolution to Lower-Cost Microscopes

Feb. 26, 2024 — Researchers have shown that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking microscopic ...

Method Identified to Double Computer Processing Speeds

Feb. 21, 2024 — Scientists introduce what they call 'simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading' or SHMT. This system doubles computer processing speeds with existing hardware by simultaneously using ...

Angle-Dependent Holograms Made Possible by Metasurfaces

Feb. 20, 2024 — Scientists unveil metasurface technology, allowing for angle-dependent ...

Researchers Develop AI That Can Understand Light in Photographs

Feb. 20, 2024 — Despite significant progress in developing AI systems that can understand the physical world like humans do, researchers have struggled with modelling a certain aspect of our visual system: the ...

Time Watching Videos May Stunt Toddler Language Development, but It Depends on Why They're Watching

Feb. 20, 2024 — A new study reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing them to digital media could also lessen the ...

Online Digital Data and AI for Monitoring Biodiversity

Feb. 16, 2024 — Researchers propose a framework for integrating online digital data into biodiversity ...

A New Design for Quantum Computers

Feb. 15, 2024 — Creating a quantum computer powerful enough to tackle problems we cannot solve with current computers remains a big challenge for quantum physicists. A well-functioning quantum simulator -- a ...

Researchers Show Classical Computers Can Keep Up With, and Surpass, Their Quantum Counterparts

Feb. 9, 2024 — A team of scientists has devised means for classical computing to mimic a quantum computing with far fewer resources than previously thought. The scientists' results show that classical ...

A Machine Learning Framework That Encodes Images Like a Retina

Feb. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed a machine learning approach to compressing image data with greater accuracy than learning-free computation methods, with applications for retinal implants and other sensory ...

AI Learns Through the Eyes and Ears of a Child

Feb. 1, 2024 — Researchers have been skeptical that recent AI advances can tell us much about human learning and development. To address this, a team training an AI model, not on massive data, but on the input that ...

Researchers Propose a Web 3.0 Streaming Architecture and Marketplace

Jan. 23, 2024 — Web 3.0 is a blockchain technology-based internet paradigm that is transparent and decentralized. But, Web 3.0 streaming services require modifications to the existing service structure due to ...

Online Versus Reality: Social Media Influences Perceptions

Jan. 17, 2024 — People may form inaccurate impressions about us from our social media posts, finds new research that is the first to examine perceptions of our personalities based on online ...

Do Violent Video Games Numb Us Towards Real Violence?

Jan. 16, 2024 — Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the ...

New Study Pinpoints the Weaknesses in AI

Jan. 11, 2024 — ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. Researchers have now proven mathematically that apart from simple problems ...

Towards More Accurate 3D Object Detection for Robots and Self-Driving Cars

Jan. 9, 2024 — Robots and autonomous vehicles can use 3D point clouds from LiDAR sensors and camera images to perform 3D object detection. However, current techniques that combine both types of data struggle to ...

360-Degree Head-Up Display View Could Warn Drivers of Road Obstacles in Real Time

Dec. 21, 2023 — Researchers have developed an augmented reality head-up display that could improve road safety by displaying potential hazards as high-resolution three-dimensional holograms directly in a ...

AI Risks Turning Organizations Into Self-Serving Organisms If Humans Removed

Dec. 21, 2023 — With human bias removed, organizations looking to improve performance by harnessing digital technology can expect changes to how information is ...

Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated the use of AI-selected natural images and AI-generated synthetic images as neuroscientific tools for probing the visual processing areas of the brain. The goal is to ...