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June 25, 2025

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Five Things to Do in Virtual Reality -- And Five to Avoid

May 30, 2025 — A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with ...

In Nature's Math, Freedoms Are Fundamental

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have developed a unified theory for mathematical parameters known as gauge freedoms. Their new formulas will allow researchers to interpret research results much faster and with greater confidence. The development could prove fundamental ...

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

May 23, 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 ...

Breakthrough AI Model Could Transform How We Prepare for Natural Disasters

May 22, 2025 — From deadly floods in Europe to intensifying tropical cyclones around the world, the climate crisis has made timely and precise forecasting more essential than ever. Yet traditional forecasting methods rely on highly complex numerical models ...

AI Is Good at Weather Forecasting. Can It Predict Freak Weather Events?

May 22, 2025 — Scientists found that neural networks cannot yet forecast 'gray swan' weather events, which might not appear in existing training data but could still happen -- like 200-year floods or massive ...

Mathematician Solves Algebra's Oldest Problem Using Intriguing New Number Sequences

May 2, 2025 — A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to ...

Making AI-Generated Code More Accurate in Any Language

Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains error ...

Using ChatGPT, Students Might Pass a Course, but With a Cost

Apr. 22, 2025 — With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a ...

Study Shows Addressing Working Memory Can Help Students With Math Difficulty Improve Word Problem-Solving Skills

Apr. 22, 2025 — Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

AI Threats in Software Development Revealed

Apr. 13, 2025 — Researchers completed one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the risks of using AI models to develop software. In a paper, they demonstrate how a specific type of error could pose a serious threat to programmers that use AI to help write ...

Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts

Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...

Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch

Mar. 28, 2025 — Most haptic devices only deliver feedback as simple vibrations. New device applies dynamic forces in any direction to simulate a more realistic sense of touch. Small, lightweight device can enhance virtual reality, help individuals with visual ...

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Hypersonic Simulation in 3D Exposes New Disturbances

Mar. 27, 2025 — At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers were able to observe new disturbances in ...

Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness

Mar. 27, 2025 — Nature documentaries presented as 360 virtual reality videos have a stronger positive effect than other forms of media, including an indirect effect on donation ...

Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI

Mar. 22, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers say a true revolution in wireless technologies is only possible through endowing the system with the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) that can think, imagine, ...

VR Study Reveals How Pain and Fear Weaken Sense of Body Ownership

Mar. 21, 2025 — A study found that when people were told to imagine their virtual bodies in pain, their brains resisted the illusion of ownership. Their findings could provide insights into why some people may ...

New Computer Code Could Lead to Simpler, Less Costly Stellarators for Fusion Power

Mar. 12, 2025 — Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making ...

AI-Based Math: Individualized Support for Schoolchildren

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed an AI-based learning system that recognizes strengths and weaknesses in mathematics by tracking eye movements with a webcam to generate problem-solving hints. This enables ...

New Ocelot Chip Makes Strides in Quantum Computing

Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists demonstrate a new quantum chip architecture for suppressing errors using a type of qubit known as a cat ...

Student Refines 100-Year-Old Math Problem, Expanding Wind Energy Possibilities

Feb. 27, 2025 — An engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi's work ...

A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight

Feb. 25, 2025 — How does a tennis player like Carlos Alcaraz decide where to run to return Novak Djokovic's ball by just looking at the ball's initial position? ...

Like Human Brains, Large Language Models Reason About Diverse Data in a General Way

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans ...

A Simple Way to Boost Math Progress

Mar. 24, 2025 — Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn ...

Are We Trusting AI Too Much? New Study Demands Accountability in Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 18, 2025 — Are we putting our faith in technology that we don't fully understand? A new study comes at a time when AI systems are making decisions impacting our daily lives -- from banking and healthcare ...

Is the Metaverse a New Frontier for Human-Centric Manufacturing?

Feb. 11, 2025 — The future of manufacturing is not just about machines and AI; it's about re-empowering humans, according to a new ...

Study in India Shows Kids Use Different Math Skills at Work Vs. School

Feb. 5, 2025 — A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do ...

AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology?

Feb. 4, 2025 — A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of satellites and space ...

User-Friendly System Can Help Developers Build More Efficient Simulations and AI Models

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data ...

Study Using Virtual Breathing Coach Indicates It Is as Effective as a Human Trainer

Jan. 30, 2025 — A study suggests that a computer-generated breathing coach could be as effective as sessions with a human ...

'Unprecedented' Level of Control Allows Person Without Use of Limbs to Operate Virtual Quadcopter

Jan. 21, 2025 — A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter -- just by ...

Synchronization in Neural Nets: Mathematical Insight Into Neuron Readout Drives Significant Improvements in Prediction Accuracy

Jan. 16, 2025 — Researchers applied the mathematical theory of synchronization to clarify how recurrent neural networks (RNNs) generate predictions, revealing a certain map, based on the generalized synchronization, ...

New AI Model TabPFN Enables Faster and More Accurate Predictions on Small Tabular Data Sets

Jan. 9, 2025 — A team has developed a new method that facilitates and improves predictions of tabular data, especially for small data sets with fewer than 10,000 data points. The new AI model TabPFN is trained on ...

VR-Haptics-Enhanced Training Holds Potential to Transform Dental Education

Dec. 24, 2024 — A new comprehensive literature review of the benefits and challenges of integrating haptics-enhanced virtual reality training, or VR-haptics for short, in dental education curricula highlights the ...

New Simulation Method Sharpens Our View Into Earth's Interior

Dec. 16, 2024 — How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers has introduced a simulation method that ...

New AI Cracks Complex Engineering Problems Faster Than Supercomputers

Dec. 9, 2024 — Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

Helping Robots Make Good Decisions in Real Time

Dec. 4, 2024 — An innovative algorithm called Spectral Expansion Tree Search helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the ...

Study in Neurosurgery Patients Reveals Numerical Concepts Are Processed Deep in Ancient Part of Brain

Dec. 3, 2024 — New research reveals the unique human ability to conceptualize numbers may be rooted deep within the ...

Inside the 'Swat Team' -- How Insects React to Virtual Reality Gaming

Nov. 29, 2024 — Humans get a real buzz from the virtual world of gaming and augmented reality but now scientists have trialled the use of these new-age technologies on small animals, to test the reactions of tiny ...

Virtual Reality Could Be Gamechanger in Police-Civilian Crisis Encounters

Nov. 20, 2024 — Traditional police training lacks practical tools for handling mental health crises, leaving officers underprepared. New research provides a promising avenue for addressing this gap using VR training ...

Machine Learning and Supercomputer Simulations Help Researchers to Predict Interactions Between Gold Nanoparticles and Blood Proteins

Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood proteins. The studies discovered that favorable nanoparticle-protein ...

'Walk This Way': How Ants Create Trails to Multiple Food Sources

Nov. 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully ...

Scientists Use Math to Predict Crystal Structure in Hours Instead of Months

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals -- a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices -- in a matter of hours using only a ...