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December 24, 2024
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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 ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The findings ...
Dec. 17, 2024 Infertility affects an estimated 186 million people worldwide, with fallopian tube obstruction contributing to 11%-67% of female infertility cases. Researchers have developed an innovative solution ...
Dec. 17, 2024 String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that points to its ...
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Dec. 16, 2024 When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, researchers have created a metric to quantify clarity in digital images. As a ...
Dec. 11, 2024 DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...
Dec. 11, 2024 Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...
Dec. 12, 2024 A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...
Dec. 11, 2024 An interdisciplinary team has created tiny bubble-like microrobots that can deliver therapeutics right where they are needed and then be absorbed by the ...
Dec. 11, 2024 A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new ...
Dec. 11, 2024 A new study highlights a hidden challenge of using AI in medical imaging research -- the phenomenon of highly accurate yet potentially misleading results known as 'shortcut learning.' The researchers ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Researchers found that adolescents with more symptoms of gaming addiction showed lower brain activity in the region involved in decision-making and reward processing; this blunted response to reward ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can watch and understand moving images with the subtlety of a human brain. Now, scientists have made this a reality by creating MovieNet: an ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural ...
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Dec. 9, 2024 Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...
Dec. 6, 2024 Researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial ...
Dec. 6, 2024 A team of interdisciplinary scientists has developed flexible fibers with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties. The Scalable Hydrogel-clad Ionotronic Nickel-core Electroluminescent ...
Dec. 4, 2024 An AI method enables the generation of sharp, high-quality 3D shapes that are closer to the quality of the best 2D image models. Previous approaches typically generated blurry or cartoonish 3D ...
Dec. 4, 2024 A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot's movement in the ...
Dec. 3, 2024 Researchers have developed a platform to help AI learn to perform complex tasks more like humans. Called 'GUIDE,' it works by allowing humans to observe AI's actions in real-time and ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Scientists have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information science to map out how particle tracks streaming from ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Researchers have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver to specific ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A research team has taken inspiration from the brains of insects and animals for more energy-efficient robotic ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have ...
Nov. 19, 2024 A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single ...
Nov. 18, 2024 Humans and animals move with remarkable economy without consciously thinking about it by utilizing the natural oscillation patterns of their bodies. A new tool can now utilize this knowledge for the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours ...
Nov. 16, 2024 Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances -- opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other ...
Nov. 16, 2024 Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully ...
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 ...
Monday, December 9, 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Bird-Inspired Drone Can Jump for Take-Off
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- A New Way to Create Realistic 3D Shapes Using Generative AI
- Manta Rays Inspire Fast Swimming Soft Robot Yet
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics
- 'Spooky Action' At a Very Short Distance: Scientists Map out Quantum Entanglement in Protons
- Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
- Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy
Friday, November 29, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
- Invisible Touch: AI Can Feel and Measure Surfaces
- 'Walk This Way': How Ants Create Trails to Multiple Food Sources
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- AI Headphones Create a 'sound Bubble,' Quieting All Sounds More Than a Few Feet Away
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
- A Milestone in the Study of Octopus Arms
- Storm in a Laser Beam: Physicists Create 'light Hurricanes' That Could Transport Huge Amounts of Data
- Robot That Watched Surgery Videos Performs With Skill of Human Doctor, Researchers Report
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Scientists Unveil Strategies to Make Self-Driven Vehicles Passenger-Friendly
- AI-Driven Mobile Robots Team Up to Tackle Chemical Synthesis
- New Haptic Patch Transmits Complexity of Touch to the Skin
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- New Methods for Whale Tracking and Rendezvous Using Autonomous Robots
- A Rudimentary Quantum Network Link Between Dutch Cities
- How Virtual Cows Could Help Us Improve Human-Robot Interactions
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Scientists Develop Grain-Sized Soft Robots Controlled by Magnetic Fields for Targeted Drug Delivery
- AI-Generated News Is Harder to Understand, Study Finds
- From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- People Sympathize With Bullied AI Bots
- Quantum Research Breakthrough Uses Synthetic Dimensions to Efficiently Process Quantum Information
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture With a Smartphone
- Researchers Develop System Cat's Eye-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Robotics
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?
- Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials
- Ultra-Sensitive Robotic 'finger' Can Take Patient Pulses, Check for Lumps
- Over 160,000 New Viruses Discovered by AI
- A Matter of Taste: Electronic Tongue Reveals AI 'inner Thoughts'
- New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'think', Say Scientists
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
- Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Sharing Biosignals With Online Gaming Partners to Enhance a Mutual Sense of Social Presence Between Complete Strangers
- Orbitronics: New Material Property Advances Energy-Efficient Tech
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- Invisibility Cloaks? Wave Scattering Simulation Unlocks Potential for Advanced Metamaterials
- Quantum Researchers Cause Controlled 'wobble' In the Nucleus of a Single Atom
- Researchers Discover Building Blocks That Could 'revolutionize Computing'
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- Microscale Robot Folds Into 3D Shapes and Crawls
- Researchers Combine the Power of AI and the Connectome to Predict Brain Cell Activity
- Researchers Develop a Stretchable, Wearable Device That Lights Up an LED Using Only the Warmth of Your Skin
Monday, September 9, 2024
- New AI Can ID Brain Patterns Related to Specific Behavior
- Artificial Muscles Propel a Robotic Leg to Walk and Jump
Friday, September 6, 2024
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Friday, August 23, 2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
- DNA Tech Offers Both Data Storage and Computing Functions
- Hydrogels Can Play Pong by 'remembering' Previous Patterns of Electrical Simulation
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Adaptive 3D Printing System to Pick and Place Bugs and Other Organisms
- Analyzing 'Finnegans Wake' For Novel Spacing Between Punctuation Marks
Friday, August 16, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Smart Fabric Converts Body Heat Into Electricity
- How Air-Powered Computers Can Prevent Blood Clots
- Engineers Conduct First in-Orbit Test of 'swarm' Satellite Autonomous Navigation
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
- Engineers Make Tunable, Shape-Changing Metamaterial Inspired by Vintage Toys
- AI Poses No Existential Threat to Humanity, New Study Finds
- Engineers Bring Efficient Optical Neural Networks Into Focus
Friday, August 9, 2024
- New Technology Uses Light to Engrave Erasable 3D Images
- Achieving Quantum Memory in the Hard X-Ray Range
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
- X-Ray Imagery of Vibrating Diamond Opens Avenues for Quantum Sensing
- Turning Unused Signals Such as Wi-Fi Into Energy for Electronics
Monday, August 5, 2024
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
- Bright Prospects for Engineering Quantum Light
- Super-Black Wood Can Improve Telescopes, Optical Devices and Consumer Goods
- Breaking MAD: Generative AI Could Break the Internet, Researchers Find
Monday, July 29, 2024
- Dark Matter: A Camera Trap for the Invisible
- Shape-Shifting 'transformer Bots' Inspired by Origami
- Robotics: Self-Powered 'bugs' Can Skim Across Water to Detect Environmental Data