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February 25, 2025

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Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Topology Drives Complexity in Brain, Climate, and AI

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. This pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden ...

Paving the Way to Quantum Supercomputers

Feb. 5, 2025 — In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing. Using a photonic network interface, they successfully linked two separate ...

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 ...

Quantum: Calculating Error-Free More Easily With Two Codes

Jan. 24, 2025 — Various methods are used to correct errors in quantum computers. Not all operations can be implemented equally well with different correction codes. Therefore, a research team has developed a method and implemented it experimentally for the first ...

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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 ...

How Do Directional Connections Shape Complex Dynamics in Neuronal Networks?

Jan. 6, 2025 — In order to uncover the relationship between structure and function, researchers used microfluidic devices to study neuronal ...

Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms Improve Medical Image Analysis

Jan. 2, 2025 — Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors. This is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finding the Weak Points: New Method to Prevent Train Delay Cascades

Dec. 9, 2024 — To help improve punctuality by understanding how delays propagate and identifying critical trains, researchers have developed a new network-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

Researchers Develop an Efficient Way to Train More Reliable AI Agents

Nov. 22, 2024 — Researchers developed an efficient approach for training more reliable reinforcement learning models, focusing on complex tasks that involve variability. This could enable the leverage of ...

Experts Urge Complex Systems Approach to Assess Artificial Intelligence Risks

Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists point out that a coherent approach to understanding the threats posed by artificial intelligence is still elusive. They call for a complex systems perspective to better assess and mitigate ...

New Medical AI Tool Identifies More Cases of Long COVID from Patient Health Records

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new precision AI tool to identify hidden cases of long COVID from patient medical records. Their new approach was more accurate than tools that look only at diagnostic ...

A Rudimentary Quantum Network Link Between Dutch Cities

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future ...

Major Development Successes in Diamond Spin Photon Quantum Computers

Oct. 28, 2024 — Lower cooling requirements, longer operating times, lower error rates: Quantum computers based on spin photons and diamond promise significant advantages over competing quantum computing ...

Listening Skills Bring Human-Like Touch to Robots

Oct. 23, 2024 — Researchers give robots a sense of touch by 'listening' to vibrations, allowing them to identify materials, understand shapes and recognize objects just like human hands. The ability to ...

Professor Tackles Graph Mining Challenges With New Algorithm

Oct. 18, 2024 — A professor has helped create a powerful new algorithm that uncovers hidden patterns in complex networks, with potential uses in fraud detection, biology and knowledge ...

Quantum Researchers Come Up With a Recipe That Could Accelerate Drug Development

Oct. 3, 2024 — Mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules. Their discovery brings us closer to being able to predict how new drugs ...

deepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations

Oct. 2, 2024 — deepSPACE isn't a futuristic film, a new videogame or the next season of a classic TV series. In fact, the new design software developed by an aerospace engineer isn't about outer space at ...

Higher-Order Interactions Can Remodel the Landscape of Complex Systems

Oct. 2, 2024 — Scientists report on how higher-order interactions can reshape a system at large -- even global -- ...

Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use

Sep. 25, 2024 — Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make ...

New AI Can ID Brain Patterns Related to Specific Behavior

Sep. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of ...

Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer

Aug. 23, 2024 — Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for ...

Self-Improving AI Method Increases 3D-Printing Efficiency

Aug. 22, 2024 — An artificial intelligence algorithm can allow researchers to more efficiently use 3D printing to manufacture intricate structures. The development could allow for more seamless use of 3D printing ...

Robot Planning Tool Accounts for Human Carelessness

Aug. 15, 2024 — A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging and assembly lines where humans and robots work together, the ...

Redefining the Computer Whiz: Research Shows Diverse Skills Valued by Youth

Aug. 11, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a more nuanced view of what makes an 'ideal' computer science student, challenging long-held stereotypes of geeky, clever, detail-oriented men, who lack social ...

AI Method Radically Speeds Predictions of Materials' Thermal Properties

July 26, 2024 — Researchers developed a machine-learning framework that can predict a key property of heat dispersion in materials that is up to 1,000 times faster than other AI methods, and could enable scientists ...

Revolutionizing the Abilities of Adaptive Radar With AI

July 19, 2024 — Engineers have shown that using a type of AI that revolutionized computer vision can greatly enhance modern adaptive radar systems. And in a move that parallels the impetus of the computer vision ...