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May 22, 2025

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

May 21, 2025 — Researchers took a fresh approach to urban research by using artificial intelligence to explore the emotional side of city life. Their goal was to better understand the link between a city's physical features and how people feel in those ...

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 the door to holographic video ...

Seeing Blood Clots Before They Strike

May 15, 2025 — Researchers have found a way to observe clotting activity in blood as it happens -- without needing invasive procedures. Using a new type of microscope and artificial intelligence (AI), their study shows how platelet clumping can be tracked in ...

AI Tool Uses Face Photos to Estimate Biological Age and Predict Cancer Outcomes

May 8, 2025 — Researchers developed FaceAge, an AI tool that calculate's a patient biological age from a photo of their face. In a new study, the researchers tied FaceAge results to health outcomes in people with ...

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Smart Home Devices Used to Monitor Domestic Workers Raise Safety Concerns

May 7, 2025 — The growing use of smart home devices is undermining the privacy and safety of domestic workers. New research reveals how surveillance technologies reinforce a sense of constant monitoring and ...

Is Virtual-Only Couture the New Clothing Craze?

May 7, 2025 — As fast fashion continues to fill wardrobes and landfills at a staggering pace, new research suggests that the future of fashion might lie not in fabric, but in ...

Cutting the Complexity from Digital Carpentry

Apr. 25, 2025 — Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in ...

New Approach Makes AI Adaptable for Computer Vision in Crop Breeding

Apr. 24, 2025 — Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses -- an advance that ...

AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'Digital Twins' in Research

Apr. 9, 2025 — In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual ...

Digital Technology and AI Can Support Workers With Dementia

Mar. 27, 2025 — People with dementia can enjoy productive and rewarding working lives in the digital era, contrary to the widespread stereotype that dementia is incompatible with the use of modern technology, ...

AI Meets Oncology: New Model Personalizes Bladder Cancer Treatment

Mar. 28, 2025 — Leveraging the power of AI and machine learning technologies, researchers developed a more effective model for predicting how patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer will respond to ...

Can Online Games Be an Effective Intervention to Help Adolescents Reduce Substance Abuse?

Mar. 19, 2025 — For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas ...

'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images

Mar. 18, 2025 — Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By ...

Quantum-Inspired Cameras Capture the Start of Life

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have performed the first imaging of embryos using cameras designed for quantum measurements. The academics investigated how to best use ultrasensitive camera technology, including the ...

New Technique Overcomes Spurious Correlations Problem in AI

Mar. 10, 2025 — AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious ...

Lightening the Load of Augmented Reality Glasses

Mar. 6, 2025 — Despite the popularity of augmented reality, AR wearable technologies haven't gained traction due to the weight and bulk associated with batteries and electronic components, and the suboptimal ...

Consumer Devices Can Be Used to Assess Brain Health

Mar. 4, 2025 — Technology is changing how physicians think about assessing patients and, in turn, how patients expect to be able to measure their own health. Apps designed for smartphones and wearable devices can ...

Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments

Mar. 4, 2025 — A research team has recently developed a groundbreaking neuromorphic exposure control (NEC) system that revolutionizes machine vision under extreme lighting variations. This biologically inspired ...

Professional Artists Viewed as More Creative Than AI Programs

Feb. 27, 2025 — In the rapidly developing contest between human creativity and artificial intelligence algorithms, professional artists still have an edge in producing more creative AI-assisted artwork than the AI ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of ...

Automatic Cell Analysis With the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 25, 2025 — Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called 'segmentation' and it enables a range of ...

A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers have invented an entirely new field of microscopy -- nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope. Quantum sensors ...

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 ...

Better Digital Memories With the Help of Noble Gases

Jan. 30, 2025 — The electronics of the future can be made even smaller and more efficient by getting more memory cells to fit in less space. One way to achieve this is by adding the noble gas xenon when ...

Researchers Combine Holograms and AI to Create Uncrackable Optical Encryption System

Jan. 30, 2025 — Researchers developed a new optical system that uses holograms to encode information, creating a level of encryption that traditional methods cannot ...

Innovative 6D Pose Dataset Sets New Standard for Robotic Grasping Performance

Jan. 16, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel 6D pose dataset designed to improve robotic grasping accuracy and adaptability in industrial settings. The dataset, which integrates RGB and depth images, ...

Discovering Hidden Wrinkles in Spacecraft Membrane With a Single Camera

Jan. 9, 2025 — A team developed a method that makes it easy to measure the wrinkles in thin membranes used on large spacecraft using just a single ...

Automated Method to Detect Common Sleep Disorder Affecting Millions

Jan. 9, 2025 — AI-powered algorithm can analyze video recordings of clinical sleep tests and more accurately diagnose REM sleep behavior ...

A Smart Ring With a Tiny Camera Lets Users Point and Click to Control Home Devices

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed IRIS, a smart ring that allows users to point and click to control smart devices. The prototype Bluetooth ring contains a small camera which sends an image of the selected ...

Enhanced Raman Microscopy of Cryofixed Specimens: Clearer and Sharper Chemical Imaging

Dec. 30, 2024 — A team has reported a Raman microscopy technique that produced images up to eight times brighter than those achieved with conventional Raman techniques. Imaging of frozen biological samples reduced ...

Mitigating Animal-Vehicle Collisions With Field Sensors, Artificial Intelligence and Ecological Modelling

Dec. 30, 2024 — Using field sensors, various ecological modelling technologies and deep learning algorithms, a French research team has developed a method for mapping the risk of collisions between animals and ...

Digital Healthcare Consultations Not Enough for Safe Assessment of Tonsillitis

Dec. 27, 2024 — Digital healthcare consultations are not enough for a safe assessment of tonsillitis, according to a new study. Reliability will not be sufficient, thus increasing the risk of over- or ...

11 To 12-Year-Olds Use Smartphones Mainly to Talk to Family and Friends

Dec. 26, 2024 — A research group has analyzed the digital ecosystem of 11- to 12-year-old children across the Basque Autonomous Community, and concluded that two out of three own a smartphone. They use smartphones ...

Bias in AI Amplifies Our Own Biases, Researchers Show

Dec. 18, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, a new study ...