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August 26, 2025
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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 movement-based perception could revolutionize AI and ...
Aug. 23, 2025 By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, showing that secure networks don’t need perfect hardware to outperform today’s best ...
Aug. 22, 2025 Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a brilliant supernova but also shocked scientists by ...
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 milliwatts of power. Instead of digital steps, it ...
Aug. 13, 2025 Scientists have designed swarms of microscopic robots that communicate and coordinate using sound waves, much like bees or birds. These self-organizing micromachines can adapt to their surroundings, reform if damaged, and potentially undertake ...
July 8, 2025 Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent of water flashing into steam. By revealing ...
June 23, 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 true random numbers. Unlike traditional methods, ...
June 20, 2025 Scientists at UBC have devised a chip-based device that acts as a "universal translator" for quantum computers, converting delicate microwave signals to optical ones and back with minimal loss and noise. This innovation preserves crucial quantum ...
June 12, 2025 A team of Danish and German scientists has launched a major project to create new technology that could form the foundation of the future quantum internet. They re using a rare element called erbium along with silicon chips like the ones in our ...
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 self-powered artificial synapse that distinguishes ...
May 30, 2025 A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with ...
May 27, 2025 Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood vessels, and they are very hard to create. Now, new ...
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July 25, 2025 Researchers at Harvard have created a groundbreaking metasurface that can replace bulky and complex optical components used in quantum computing with a single, ultra-thin, nanostructured layer. This ...
July 25, 2025 AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, ...
June 23, 2025 Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a ...
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 ...
May 22, 2025 Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today's commercial systems. Driven by the Lab's patented nano-engineered thin-film ...
May 22, 2025 Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light ...
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 ...
May 21, 2025 SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...
May 21, 2025 Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their ...
May 19, 2025 Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans ...
Earlier Headlines
May 19, 2025 We need to learn our letters before we can learn to read and our numbers before we can learn how to add and subtract. The same principles are true with AI, a team of scientists has shown through ...
May 15, 2025 New research shows that cyberbullying should be classified as an adverse childhood experience due to its strong link to trauma. Even subtle forms -- like exclusion from group chats -- can trigger ...
May 14, 2025 Traditional methods of assessing damage after a disaster can take weeks or even months, delaying emergency response, insurance claims and long-term rebuilding efforts. New research might change that. ...
May 14, 2025 Researchers found that vision-language models, widely used to analyze medical images, do not understand negation words like 'no' and 'not.' This could cause them to fail ...
May 14, 2025 Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first ...
May 14, 2025 A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young ...
May 13, 2025 As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, founded by Nationwide Children's Hospital, identifies parents' ...
May 8, 2025 Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...
May 8, 2025 Researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and ...
May 8, 2025 A research team has discovered a surprising phenomenon that could revolutionize how we think about signal amplification. Just two tiny vibrating units can, when connected with a delay, amplify their ...
May 8, 2025 Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement could pave the way for more secure data ...
May 7, 2025 Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this ...
May 7, 2025 An artificial intelligence (AI) model improved outcomes in hospitalized patients by quadrupling the rate of detection and treatment of delirium. The model identifies patients at high risk for ...
May 6, 2025 Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...
May 5, 2025 Researchers have developed a new protocol for characterizing quantum gate errors, paving the way toward more reliable quantum simulations and fault-tolerant quantum ...
May 1, 2025 A next-generation technology developed in 2023, conversational swarm intelligence (CSI), combines the principles of ASI with the power of large language ...
May 1, 2025 Researchers made a technique that improves the trustworthiness of machine-learning models, which could help improve the accuracy and reliability of AI predictions for high-stakes settings such health ...
May 1, 2025 While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door ...
May 1, 2025 Estimating the pose of hand-held objects is a critical and challenging problem in robotics and computer vision. While leveraging multi-modal RGB and depth data is a promising solution, existing ...
Apr. 30, 2025 Every second counts when it comes to detecting and treating heart attacks. A new technology may be able to identify heart attacks faster and more accurately than traditional ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Tech Meets Tornado Recovery
- Study Shows Vision-Language Models Can't Handle Queries With Negation Words
- Energy and Memory: A New Neural Network Paradigm
- The Key to Spotting Dyslexia Early Could Be AI-Powered Handwriting Analysis
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Ping Pong Bot Returns Shots With High-Speed Precision
- New Chip Uses AI to Shrink Large Language Models' Energy Footprint by 50%
- Tiny Vibrations Have a Massive Impact: Transmitting Clear Signals Over Long Distances Using Nonlinear Math
- 'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Piecing Together the Brain Puzzle
- AI Model Improves Delirium Prediction, Leading to Better Health Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Using Principles of Swarm Intelligence, Study Compared Platforms That Allow Brainstorming Among Large Groups
- Making AI Models More Trustworthy for High-Stakes Settings
- Artificial Sense of Touch, Improved
- Researchers Develop a Novel Vote-Based Model for More Accurate Hand-Held Object Pose Estimation
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Engineers Develop Wearable Heart Attack Detection Tech
- Artificial Intelligence Tools Make Education Materials More Patient Friendly
- A Virtual Reality Game Integrating Smell to Fight Cognitive Decline
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Nanophotonic Platform Boosts Efficiency of Nonlinear-Optical Quantum Teleportation
- Quantum Sensors Tested for Next-Generation Particle Physics Experiments
- Awkward. Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Reading the Room
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- 'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery
- New Electronic 'skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Brain-Inspired AI Breakthrough: Making Computers See More Like Humans
- AI Tool Grounded in Evidence-Based Medicine Outperformed Other AI Tools -- And Most Doctors On USMLE Exams
Monday, April 21, 2025
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Monday, April 14, 2025
- Emotions and Levels of Threat Affect Communities' Resilience During Extreme Events
- Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help
- How the Brain Controls Movement Under Uncertainty
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'digital Twins' In Research
- 3D Streaming Gets Leaner by Seeing Only What Matters
- Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time
- Amplifier With Tenfold Bandwidth Opens Up for Super Lasers
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
- Is AI in Medicine Playing Fair?
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Monday, March 31, 2025
- My Robot Therapist: The Ethics of AI Mental Health Chatbots for Kids
- Chance Discovery Improves Stability of Bioelectronic Material Used in Medical Implants, Computing and Biosensors
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'noise'
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- First Therapy Chatbot Trial Shows AI Can Provide 'gold-Standard' Care
- Revolutionary Brain-Computer Interface Decoding System
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Repetitive Behaviors and Special Interests Are More Indicative of an Autism Diagnosis Than a Lack of Social Skills
- Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Energy by Mimicking the Human Brain
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
- New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches
- Novel Memristors to Overcome AI's 'catastrophic Forgetting'
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Groundbreaking AI Tool Generates 3D Map of the Brain
- Machine Learning Aids in Detection of 'brain Tsunamis'
- Record-Breaking 12,900 Km Ultra-Secure Quantum Satellite Link
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- AI Food Scanner Turns Phone Photos Into Nutritional Analysis
- New AI Tool Visualizes a Cell's 'social Network' To Help Treat Cancer
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
Friday, March 14, 2025
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
- New Method Significantly Reduces AI Energy Consumption
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
- Artificial Muscles for Tremor Suppression
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- New Computer Vision System Can Guide Specialty Crops Monitoring
- Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies
- Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments
Monday, March 3, 2025
- AI Revolutionizes Glaucoma Care: Specialist-Level Screening System
- ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-out AI
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Self-Driving Cars Learn to Share Road Knowledge Through Digital Word-of-Mouth
- Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network
- Sacrificial Scaffolding Helps New Hydrogels Heal Quickly
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight
- Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform