Computers & Math News
April 19, 2024
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Mar. 18, 2024 — Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study. In a first, the team precisely ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team has succeeded in ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Important data can be stored and concealed quite easily in ordinary plastic using 3D printers and terahertz radiation, scientists show. Holography can be done quite easily: A 3D printer can be used to produce a panel from normal plastic in which a ...
Mar. 1, 2024 — In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative ...
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Apr. 18, 2024 — Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in mice. The study found that human neurons communicate in one direction, while in mice, signals tend ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s. Anticipated as future bits in computer memory, ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Most cancer patients do not benefit from early targeted therapies. Scientists now describe a new computational pipeline to systematically predict ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Monitoring and treating a case of multiple sclerosis requires reliable and long-term data on how the disease is progressing in the person in ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the need for ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Using adaptive optics, scientists have identified elusive retinal ganglion cells in the eye's fovea that could explain how humans see red, green, blue, and ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have synthesized triarylborane (TAB) compounds that exhibit unusual optical responses upon binding to certain anions. They also synthesized thin polymer films that incorporate the TAB and ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — Clear guidelines should be established for the generation and processing of synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, a new ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — AI developments in chemical biology could unlock new types of disease ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson's disease treatments. The researchers designed and used an AI-based strategy to identify ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the United States every year, yet the common procedure can ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — An international research team has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any mass, in the same way that light travels. ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — A study shows that AI enhances physician-patient ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — 4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Hall ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI application using cartoons from The New Yorker to help people be ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — A team of computer scientists working on two different problems -- how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks -- recently announced ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — New research reveals AI-generated responses can make humans 'feel heard' but an underlying bias toward AI devalues its ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — New research suggests that materials commonly overlooked in computer chip design actually play an important role in information processing, a discovery which could lead to faster and more efficient ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests -- including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — A new technique can more effectively perform a safety check on an AI chatbot. Researchers enabled their model to prompt a chatbot to generate toxic responses, which are used to prevent the chatbot ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now, researchers have succeeded in demonstrating for the very first time ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Researchers applied artificial intelligence (AI) to a technique that produces high-resolution images of cells in the eye. They report that with AI, imaging is 100 times faster and improves image ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured. A research group introduces a new ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- How 3D Printers Can Give Robots a Soft Touch
- Artificial Intelligence Beats Doctors in Accurately Assessing Eye Problems
- AI Speeds Up Drug Design for Parkinson's by Ten-Fold
- Novel Robotic Training Program Reduces Physician Errors Placing Central Lines
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Quantum Electronics: Charge Travels Like Light in Bilayer Graphene
- Crucial Connection for 'quantum Internet' Made for the First Time
Monday, April 15, 2024
- AI Enhances Physician-Patient Communication
- Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research
- Quantum Precision: A New Kind of Resistor
- AI Can Write You a Poem and Edit Your Video. Now, It Can Help You Be Funnier
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
- Artificial Intelligence Can Help People Feel Heard
- 'Surprising' Hidden Activity of Semiconductor Material Spotted by Researchers
- Star Trek's Holodeck Recreated Using ChatGPT and Video Game Assets
- Breakthrough Promises Secure Quantum Computing at Home
- Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- A Faster, Better Way to Prevent an AI Chatbot from Giving Toxic Responses
- Quantum Breakthrough When Light Makes Materials Magnetic
- AI Makes Retinal Imaging 100 Times Faster, Compared to Manual Method
- New Method of Measuring Qubits Promises Ease of Scalability in a Microscopic Package
- Breakthrough for Next-Generation Digital Displays
- Waterproof 'e-Glove' Could Help Scuba Divers Communicate
- AI-Assisted Breast-Cancer Screening May Reduce Unnecessary Testing
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- Can the Bias in Algorithms Help Us See Our Own?
- Could New Technique for 'curving' Light Be the Secret to Improved Wireless Communication?
- New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Will the Convergence of Light and Matter in Janus Particles Transcend Performance Limitations in the Optical Display Industry?
- How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions
- A Pulse of Innovation: AI at the Service of Heart Research
- Engineers Design Soft and Flexible 'skeletons' For Muscle-Powered Robots
- Researchers Developed New Method for Detecting Heart Failure With a Smartphone
- Novel Robust-Optimal Controllers Based on Fuzzy Descriptor System
- Protecting Art and Passwords With Biochemistry
- How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation
- Scientists Release State-of-the-Art Spike-Sorting Software Kilosort4
- Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of 3-D Magnetic Recording
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Innovative Sensing Platform Unlocks Ultrahigh Sensitivity in Conventional Sensors
- Can Language Models Read the Genome? This One Decoded mRNA to Make Better Vaccines
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors
- New Privacy-Preserving Robotic Cameras Obscure Images Beyond Human Recognition
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Large Language Models Respond Differently Based on User's Motivation
- 'Smart Swarms' Of Tiny Robots Inspired by Natural Herd Mentality
- Computer Scientists Show the Way: AI Models Need Not Be SO Power Hungry
- Drawing Inspiration from Plants: A Metal-Air Paper Battery for Wearable Devices
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans, Study Finds
- The Math Problem That Took Nearly a Century to Solve: Secret to Ramsey Numbers
- 100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer
Monday, April 1, 2024
- I Spy With My Speedy Eye: Scientists Discover Speed of Visual Perception Ranges Widely in Humans
- Study Uses Artificial Intelligence to Show How Personality Influences the Expression of Our Genes
- Cellphone Compass Can Measure Tiny Concentrations of Compounds Important for Human Health
- Physics-Based Predictive Tool Will Speed Up Battery and Superconductor Research
- App May Pave Way to Treatments for No. 1 Dementia in Under-60s
- Chatbot Outperformed Physicians in Clinical Reasoning in Head-to-Head Study
- Research Reveals Language Barriers Limit Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Resources
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Boosts Super-Resolution Microscopy
- Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection
- An Innovative Mixed Light Field Technique for Immersive Projection Mapping
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Could AI Play a Role in Locating Damage to the Brain After Stroke?
- Robot, Can You Say 'cheese'?
- More Efficient TVs, Screens and Lighting
- New Software Enables Blind and Low-Vision Users to Create Interactive, Accessible Charts
- A New Type of Cooling for Quantum Simulators
- Hidden Geometry of Learning: Neural Networks Think Alike
- Memory Self-Test Via Smartphone Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Optimizing Electronic Health Records: Study Reveals Improvements in Departmental Productivity
- Bullseye! Accurately Centering Quantum Dots Within Photonic Chips
- Using 'time Travel' To Think About Technology from the Perspective of Future Generations
- Micro-Lisa! Making a Mark With Novel Nano-Scale Laser Writing
- Mathematical Innovations Enable Advances in Seismic Activity Detection
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Engineering Household Robots to Have a Little Common Sense
- GPT-4 for Identifying Cell Types in Single Cells Matches and Sometimes Outperforms Expert Methods
- Pairing Crypto Mining With Green Hydrogen Offers Clean Energy Boost
- Pushing Back the Limits of Optical Imaging by Processing Trillions of Frames Per Second
- Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry
- The World Is One Step Closer to Secure Quantum Communication on a Global Scale
- Rectifying AI's Usage in the Quest for Thermoelectric Materials
- Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors
- Novel Quantum Algorithm for High-Quality Solutions to Combinatorial Optimization Problems
- Semiconductors at Scale: New Processor Achieves Remarkable Speed-Up in Problem Solving
- Metamaterials and AI Converge, Igniting Innovative Breakthroughs
- Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Downscaling Storage Devices: Magnetic Memory Based on the Chirality of Spiral Magnets
- Physicists Develop Modeling Software to Diagnose Serious Diseases
- Researchers Invent Artificial Intelligence Model to Design New Superbug-Fighting Antibiotics
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasound Images
- Verifying the Work of Quantum Computers
- Universal Controller Could Push Robotic Prostheses, Exoskeletons Into Real-World Use
- Quantum Talk With Magnetic Disks
- Robotic Metamaterial: An Endless Domino Effect
- ChatGPT Is an Effective Tool for Planning Field Work, School Trips and Even Holidays
- AI-Based App Can Help Physicians Find Skin Melanoma
- Powerful New AI Can Predict People's Attitudes to Vaccines
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors
- Researchers Develop Deep Learning Model to Predict Breast Cancer
- Bendable Energy Storage Materials by Cool Science