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November 1, 2024

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Smart Sensor Patch Detects Health Symptoms Through Edge Computing

Oct. 30, 2024 — Edge computing on a smartphone has been used to analyze data collected by a multimodal flexible wearable sensor patch and detect arrhythmia, coughs and ...

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 interpret the world through acoustic vibrations emanating from ...

A Multi-Level Breakthrough in Optical Computing

Oct. 23, 2024 — Until now, researchers have been limited in developing photonic memory for AI processing -- gaining one important attribute like speed while sacrificing another like energy usage. An international team demonstrates a unique solution that addresses ...

People Hate Stories They Think Were Written by AI: Even If They Were Written by People

Oct. 21, 2024 — AI-written stories are getting better, but people still distrust AI-generated ...

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Soft Microelectronics Technologies Enabling Wearable AI for Digital Health

Oct. 22, 2024 — Developing edge-computing and AI capabilities from wearable sensors enhances their intelligence, critical for the AI of Things, and reduces power consumption by minimizing data exchange between ...

Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code

Oct. 21, 2024 — The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of ...

New Benchmark Helps Solve the Hardest Quantum Problems

Oct. 17, 2024 — Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. Researchers have developed a method for ...

Material Stimulated by Light Pulses Could Be Leap Toward More Energy-Efficient Supercomputing

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers used X-ray microscopy to discover a ferroelectric material that tailors its response to controlled ultrafast external stimuli, such as ...

Quantum Research Breakthrough Uses Synthetic Dimensions to Efficiently Process Quantum Information

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new study opens the door to cutting-edge solutions that could contribute to the realization of a system capable of processing quantum information ...

Controlling Prosthetic Hands More Precisely by the Power of Thought

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel training protocol for brain-computer interfaces in a study with rhesus monkeys. The method enables precise control of prosthetic hands using signals from the brain ...

New Diamond Bonding Technique a Breakthrough for Quantum Devices

Oct. 16, 2024 — A paper has solved a major hurdle facing researchers working with diamond by creating a novel way of bonding diamonds directly to materials that integrate easily with either quantum or conventional ...

New Research Reveals How Large-Scale Adoption of Electric Vehicles Can Improve Air Quality and Human Health

Oct. 15, 2024 — A new study suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits. The research ...

New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture With a Smartphone

Oct. 15, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture -- and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Instead, it requires only a ...

Researchers Develop System Cat's Eye-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Robotics

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a vision system inspired by feline eyes to enhance object detection in various lighting conditions. Featuring a unique ...

Autistic Traits Shape How We Explore

Oct. 31, 2024 — People with stronger autistic trails showed distinct exploration patterns and higher levels of persistence in a computer game, ultimately resulting in better performance than people with lower scores ...

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 ...

Quantum Experiments and High-Performance Computing: New Methods Enable Complex Calculations to Be Completed Extremely Quickly

Oct. 24, 2024 — Scientists have used high-performance computing at large scales to analyze a quantum photonics experiment. In specific terms, this involved the tomographic reconstruction of experimental data from a ...

Data Security: Breakthrough in Research With Personalized Health Data

Oct. 23, 2024 — The European research project 'Federated Secure Computing' presents a new approach that allows patient data from different institutions to be analysed securely and ...

Simulation Mimics How the Brain Grows Neurons, Paving the Way for Future Disease Treatments

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...

Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?

Oct. 9, 2024 — Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave ...

New Technique Could Unlock Potential of Quantum Materials

Oct. 9, 2024 — A research team has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum ...

New AI Models of Plasma Heating Lead to Important Corrections in Computer Code Used for Fusion Research

Oct. 9, 2024 — New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also ...

AI-Trained CCTV in Rivers Can Spot Blockages and Reduce Floods

Oct. 9, 2024 — Smart CCTV systems trained to spot blockages in urban waterways could become an important future tool in flood prevention, new research has ...

Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials

Oct. 9, 2024 — Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...

New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'Think', Say Scientists

Oct. 9, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how ...

New Apps Will Enable Safer Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired

Oct. 8, 2024 — Two new apps will enable blind people to navigate indoor buildings with spoken directions from a smartphone app, providing a safe method of wayfinding where GPS doesn't ...

AI and Quantum Mechanics Team Up to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Oct. 7, 2024 — SMU have created SmartCADD. This open-source virtual tool combines artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics and Computer Assisted Drug Design (CADD) techniques to speed up the screening of chemical ...

Stopping Off-the-Wall Behavior in Fusion Reactors

Oct. 7, 2024 — New experimental results suggest that sprinkling boron into a tokamak could shield the wall of the fusion vessel and prevent atoms from the wall from getting into the plasma. A new computer modeling ...

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 ...

Logic With Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-Based Parallel Computing

Oct. 3, 2024 — Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Strong Coupling Between Andreev Qubits Mediated by a Microwave Resonator

Oct. 3, 2024 — Physicists have succeeded in coupling two Andreev qubits coherently over a macroscopic distance for the first time. They achieved this with the help of microwave photons generated in a narrow ...

Engineers Create a Chip-Based Tractor Beam for Biological Particles

Oct. 3, 2024 — A chip-based 'tractor beam' can trap and manipulate biological particles using a tightly focused beam of light emitted from a silicon-photonics chip. The device could help biologists and ...

Helping Robots Zero in on the Objects That Matter

Sep. 30, 2024 — Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of ...

AI Trained on Evolution's Playbook Develops Proteins That Spur Drug and Scientific Discovery

Sep. 26, 2024 — The key insight with a new strategy for training protein engineering models, called EvoRank, is to harness the natural variations of millions of proteins generated by evolution over deep time and ...