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December 28, 2024

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First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation Over Busy Internet Cables

Dec. 20, 2024 — Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles required for classical communications. A new study ...

Machine Psychology: A Bridge to General AI?

Dec. 19, 2024 — Artificial intelligence that is as intelligent as humans may become possible thanks to psychological learning models, combined with certain types of ...

Laser-Based Artificial Neuron Mimics Nerve Cell Functions at Lightning Speed

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron, which could lead to new breakthroughs in ...

Developing Artificial Intelligence Tools for Health Care

Dec. 17, 2024 — Reinforcement Learning, an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical ...

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New Software Unlocks Secrets of Cell Signaling

Dec. 19, 2024 — SMART, a new software package, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology ...

Breaking Barriers: Study Uses AI to Interpret American Sign Language in Real-Time

Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom ...

Researchers 3D Print Compact, Low-Cost Vortex Beam Generators

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed a 3D-printed device that generates twisting light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM), a form of rotational energy that can carry more data than regular ...

Image Tool to Help AI Scour Wildlife Shots for Climate Change Clues

Dec. 13, 2024 — A new AI image tool could aid the development of algorithms to analyse wildlife images to help improve understanding of how species around the world are responding to climate change, a study ...

Researchers Reduce Bias in AI Models While Preserving or Improving Accuracy

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers developed an AI debiasing technique that improves the fairness of a machine-learning model by boosting its performance for subgroups that are underrepresented in its training data, while ...

Rethinking the Quantum Chip

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor, aiming at a potential architecture for the large-scale, durable devices the quantum revolution demands. Unlike the ...

New Algorithm Boosts Multitasking in Quantum Machine Learning

Dec. 10, 2024 — When a quantum computer processes data, it must translate it into understandable quantum data. Algorithms that carry out this 'quantum compilation' typically optimize one target at a time. However, a ...

Shape-Changing Device Helps Visually Impaired People Perform Location Task as Well as Sighted People

Dec. 10, 2024 — A groundbreaking piece of navigation technology that uses the ability to sense information through touch can help people with visual impairment ...

Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn

Dec. 9, 2024 — Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural ...

Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy

Dec. 2, 2024 — A research team has taken inspiration from the brains of insects and animals for more energy-efficient robotic ...

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 ...

To Build Better Fiber Optic Cables, Ask a Clam

Dec. 2, 2024 — Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of ...

Photonic Processor Could Enable Ultrafast AI Computations With Extreme Energy Efficiency

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed ...

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 ...

Researchers Highlight Nobel-Winning AI Breakthroughs and Call for Interdisciplinary Innovation

Nov. 26, 2024 — A new article examines the convergence of physics, chemistry, and AI, highlighted by recent Nobel Prizes. It traces the historical development of neural networks, emphasizing the role of ...

Managing Forests With Smart Technologies

Nov. 25, 2024 — Deforestation has remained a significant issue globally, with primary forests contributing to 16 per cent of the total tree cover loss in the last two decades, driven by climate change and intensive ...

The Next Evolution of AI Begins With Ours

Nov. 25, 2024 — The genome has space for only a small fraction of the information needed to control complex behaviors. So then how, for example, does a newborn sea turtle instinctually know to follow the moonlight? ...

Reality Check: Making Indoor Smartphone-Based Augmented Reality Work

Nov. 23, 2024 — To understand the practical challenges of indoor augmented reality applications on smartphones, researchers conducted 113 hours of extensive experiments and case studies over 316 patterns to ...

Hear This! Transforming Health Care With Speech-to-Text Technology

Nov. 21, 2024 — Researchers study the importance of enunciation when using speech-to-text software in medical ...

Quantum-Inspired Design Boosts Efficiency of Heat-to-Electricity Conversion

Nov. 21, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Engineers designed a thermal emitter that can deliver high ...

Innovating Archaeology: Scholars Utilize Immersive 3D Tech to Document and Study the Human Past

Nov. 21, 2024 — Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. ...

Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Depression

Nov. 20, 2024 — Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses. As many as 280 million people worldwide are affected by this disease, which is why researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Vultures and Artificial Intelligence(s) as Death Detectors: High-Tech Approach for Wildlife Research and Conservation

Nov. 19, 2024 — In order to use remote locations to record and assess the behavior of wildlife and environmental conditions, the GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that reliably and ...

Incorrect AI Advice Influences Diagnostic Decisions, Study Finds

Nov. 19, 2024 — When making diagnostic decisions, radiologists and other physicians may rely too much on artificial intelligence (AI) when it points out a specific area of interest in an X-ray, according to a new ...

AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game

Nov. 19, 2024 — Linguistics and computer science researchers have discovered some of the root causes of why AI large language models perform poorly in human-like ...

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 ...

Study Identifies Strategy for AI Cost-Efficiency in Health Care Settings

Nov. 18, 2024 — A study has identified strategies for using large language models (LLMs), a type of artificial intelligence (AI), in health systems while maintaining cost efficiency and performance. The findings ...

AI Headphones Create a 'Sound Bubble,' Quieting All Sounds More Than a Few Feet Away

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet. Voices and sounds outside the bubble are ...

Does AI Improve Doctors' Diagnoses? Study Puts It to the Test

Nov. 13, 2024 — Hospitals are already deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance patient care. But can it actually improve doctors' diagnoses? A new study has surprising ...

Giving Robots Superhuman Vision Using Radio Signals

Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed PanoRadar, a new tool to give robots superhuman vision by transforming simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the ...