Computer Science News

May 7, 2025

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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 complicated network requires a precise look into how ...

AI Has Untapped Potential to Advance Biodiversity Conservation

May 6, 2025 — A new study suggests the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly analyze vast amounts of biodiversity data could revolutionize conservation efforts by enabling scientists and policymakers to make better-informed ...

Gender Characteristics of Service Robots Can Influence Customer Decisions

May 6, 2025 — While service robots with male characteristics can be more persuasive when interacting with some women who have a low sense of decision-making power, 'cute' design features -- such as big eyes and raised cheeks -- affect both men and women ...

How AI Tools Can Improve Manufacturing Worker Safety, Product Quality

May 6, 2025 — Recent artificial intelligence advances have largely focused on text, but AI increasingly shows promise in other contexts, including manufacturing and the service industry. In these sectors, targeted AI improvements can improve product quality and ...

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Robotic Touch Sensors Are Not Just Skin Deep

May 5, 2025 — Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin ...

Text-to-Video AI Blossoms With New Metamorphic Video Capabilities

May 5, 2025 — Computer scientists have developed a new AI text-to-video model that learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse ...

Making Virtual Reality More Accessible

May 5, 2025 — Researchers have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility ...

Making AI Models More Trustworthy for High-Stakes Settings

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 ...

Light-Based Data Made Clearer With New Machine Learning Method

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample ...

New AI Technique Can Uncover Antiviral Compounds Using Limited Data

Apr. 30, 2025 — Artificial intelligence algorithms have now been combined with traditional laboratory methods to uncover promising drug leads against human enterovirus 71 (EV71), the pathogen behind most cases of ...

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

May 1, 2025 — A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to ...

Artificial Sense of Touch, Improved

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 ...

Engineers Develop Wearable Heart Attack Detection Tech

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 ...

Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...

Hidden Mechanisms in Next-Generation AI Memory Device

Apr. 25, 2025 — As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, researchers have identified a breakthrough that could make AI technologies faster and more ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery

Apr. 23, 2025 — After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help ...

Material? Robot? It's a Metabot

Apr. 23, 2025 — The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In ...

Robot See, Robot Do: System Learns After Watching How-to Videos

Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...

It's a Quantum Zoo out There, and Scientists Just Found a Dozen New 'Species'

Apr. 21, 2025 — Researchers observe over a dozen never-before-seen quantum states in a unique quantum ...

Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles

Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...

A Cool Fix for Hot Chips: Advanced Thermal Management Technology for Electronic Devices

Apr. 17, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a significant performance increase in cooling technology for high-power electronic devices. They designed novel capillary geometries that push the boundaries of thermal ...

Our DNA Is at Risk of Hacking, Warn Scientists

Apr. 16, 2025 — According to new research next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) -- the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and ...

AI Tool to Better Assess Parkinson's Disease, Other Movement Disorders

Apr. 14, 2025 — A groundbreaking open-source computer program uses artificial intelligence to analyze videos of patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. The tool, called VisionMD, helps ...

How the Brain Controls Movement Under Uncertainty

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study by neuroscientists shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, planning and execution of ...

Cooler Faster Better: Engineers Uncover a New Way to Stop Electronics from Overheating

Apr. 14, 2025 — Engineers discovered a way to move heat ultrafast using crystal waves, offering a breakthrough in cooling advanced ...

Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'Life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time

Apr. 9, 2025 — American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

AI Threats in Software Development Revealed

Apr. 8, 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 ...

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 ...

Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks

Apr. 2, 2025 — Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum ...

Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations

Apr. 1, 2025 — Researchers report their insights on the emerging field of complex frequencies excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits. ...

Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision

Mar. 27, 2025 — A new method significantly advances 3D imaging of reflective surfaces. The approach integrates techniques known from high-precision optical 3D metrology and computer vision, and could benefit ...

Revolutionary Brain-Computer Interface Decoding System

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on memristor-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). This research presents an innovative approach for implementing energy-efficient adaptive ...