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April 24, 2025
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Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn't have ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...
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 gene research -- could become a prime target for ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for flying ...
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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 ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — New research can transform how hospitals triage, risk-stratify, and counsel patients to save ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — The iCares bandage uses innovative microfluidic components, sensors, and machine learning to sample and analyze wounds and provide data to help patients and caregivers make treatment ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on ...
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 this ...
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 scientists ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Most people generally are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence than they are about a theoretical future in which AI threatens humanity. A new study reveals that ...
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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 ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that brings machine vision closer to how the human brain processes images. Called Lp-Convolution, this method improves the ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A powerful clinical artificial intelligence tool developed by biomedical informatics researchers has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on all three parts of the United States Medical Licensing Exam ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers set out to learn how well the free version of ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Researchers observe over a dozen never-before-seen quantum states in a unique quantum ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A research team conducted a meta-analysis of the diagnostic capabilities of generative AI in the field of medicine using 83 research ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — An international research team has discovered the anomalous Hall effect in a collinear antiferromagnet. More strikingly, the anomalous Hall effect emerges from a non-Fermi liquid state, in which ...
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 ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a research team is using machine learning to uncover what keeps individuals committed to their ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study comes at a ...
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 ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Physicists have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — A team has developed an explainable AI model for automatic collision avoidance between ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers share a model that identifies the optimal location for bowling ball placement. Employing a system of six differential equations derived from Euler's equations for a rotating rigid ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Robot See, Robot Do: System Learns After Watching How-to Videos
- 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
- Using ChatGPT, Students Might Pass a Course, but With a Cost
Monday, April 21, 2025
- Study Shows Addressing Working Memory Can Help Students With Math Difficulty Improve Word Problem-Solving Skills
- It's a Quantum Zoo out There, and Scientists Just Found a Dozen New 'species'
- High-Tech Sticker Can Identify Real Human Emotions
Friday, April 18, 2025
- How Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See
- Generative AI's Diagnostic Capabilities Comparable to Non-Specialist Doctors
- Pushing Boundaries: Detecting the Anomalous Hall Effect Without Magnetization in a New Class of Materials
- Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Predict Exercise Adherence
Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional
- A Cool Fix for Hot Chips: Advanced Thermal Management Technology for Electronic Devices
- Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Explainable AI for Ship Navigation Raises Trust, Decreases Human Error
- An Elegant Method for the Detection of Single Spins Using Photovoltage
- A Bowling Revolution: Modeling the Perfect Conditions for a Strike
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Emotions and Levels of Threat Affect Communities' Resilience During Extreme Events
- AI Tool to Better Assess Parkinson's Disease, Other Movement Disorders
- Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help
- Modeling Method Provides Smarter Way to Predict Customer Demand
- How the Brain Controls Movement Under Uncertainty
- Cooler Faster Better: Engineers Uncover a New Way to Stop Electronics from Overheating
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Reshaping Quantum Dots Production Through Continuous Flow and Sustainable Technologies
- AI-Generated 'Synthetic Scarred Hearts' Aid Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
- A Fluid Battery That Can Take Any Shape
- Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell
- A New Era in Materials Science: Antiferromagnetic Quasicrystals Unveiled
- Illuminating the Twist: Light-Driven Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- AI Tool Set to Speed Quest for Advanced Superconductors
- AI Tool Makes Sense of Public Opinion Data in Minutes, Not Months
- New Method Efficiently Safeguards Sensitive AI Training Data
- A Milestone for Laser Plasma Acceleration
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'digital Twins' In Research
- Could LLMs Help Design Our Next Medicines and Materials?
- 3D Streaming Gets Leaner by Seeing Only What Matters
- A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
- Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time
- Amplifier With Tenfold Bandwidth Opens Up for Super Lasers
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Simultaneously Burying Broadband and Electricity Could Be Worth Millions to People in MA Towns
- AI Threats in Software Development Revealed
- Universal Spatiotemporal Scaling Laws Governing Daily Population Flow in Cities Revealed
- Tech-Assisted Peer Therapy Effective for Perinatal Depression in Lower Income Countries
- Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network
- Researchers Use AI to Improve Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Infections
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
- Is AI in Medicine Playing Fair?
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created
- How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?
- Artificial Intelligence Has Potential to Aid Physician Decisions During Virtual Urgent Care
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves
- Nurture More Important Than Nature for Robotic Hand
- Powerful New Software Platform Could Reshape Biomedical Research by Making Data Analysis More Accessible
- Strain 'trick' Improves Perovskite Solar Cells' Efficiency
- How GPS Helps Older Drivers Stay on the Roads
- Riding the AI Wave Toward Rapid, Precise Ocean Simulations
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera
- Scientists Unveil Starfish-Inspired Wearable Tech for Heart Monitoring
- Multi-Resistance in Bacteria Predicted by AI Model
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- A New Wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control
- Plant Doctor: An AI System That Watches Over Urban Trees Without Touching a Leaf
- Smartwatch Technology Could Help With Future Alcohol Interventions
- World's Smallest Pacemaker Is Activated by Light
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- An Efficient Self-Assembly Process for Advanced Self-Healing Materials
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
- New AI Models Possible Game-Changers Within Protein Science and Healthcare
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Physicists Use Quantum Entanglement to Crack Mystery of Strange Metals
- Artificial Neurons Organize Themselves
- AI Meets Oncology: New Model Personalizes Bladder Cancer Treatment
- Smart Textiles and Surfaces: How Lightweight Elastomer Films Are Bringing Tech to Life
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Physics of Irregular Objects on Inclined Planes Probed
- Physicists Discover a Copper-Free High-Temperature Superconducting Oxide
- Digital Technology and AI Can Support Workers With Dementia
- Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'noise'
- Smartwatches May Help Control Diabetes Through Exercise
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- AI Is as Good as Pathologists at Diagnosing Celiac Disease, Study Finds
- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- Is AI the New Research Scientist? Not So, According to a Human-Led Study
- First Therapy Chatbot Trial Shows AI Can Provide 'gold-Standard' Care
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
- Revolutionary Brain-Computer Interface Decoding System
- The Hidden Spring in Your Step
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Hypersonic Simulation in 3D Exposes New Disturbances
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Unlocking the Potential of the Heavy Atom Effect in Metal Clusters
- Entangled in Self-Discovery: Quantum Computers Analyze Their Own Entanglement
- Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
- Is Your Job Making You Happy? Insights from Job Satisfaction Data