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October 4, 2024

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Sharing Biosignals With Online Gaming Partners to Enhance a Mutual Sense of Social Presence Between Complete Strangers

Sep. 27, 2024 — Although interactive online platforms, including esports platforms, aim to foster close connections between people, they often fall short of supporting the creation of bonds between the interaction ...

Language Agents Help Large Language Models 'Think' Better and Cheaper

Sep. 24, 2024 — Researchers have devised an agent to help large language models ...

How Can We Make the Best Possible Use of Large Language Models for a Smarter and More Inclusive Society?

Sep. 20, 2024 — Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ChatGPT. An article explains the opportunities ...

Simple Shift Could Make Low Earth Orbit Satellites High Capacity

Sep. 13, 2024 — Researchers have invented a technique that enables low Earth orbit satellite antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, slashing costs and simplifying designs for communication ...

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Major Leap for Nuclear Clock Paves Way for Ultraprecise Timekeeping

Sep. 4, 2024 — Nuclear clocks would measure time based on changes inside an atom's nucleus, which would make them less sensitive to external disturbances and potentially more accurate than atomic clocks. These ...

Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer

Aug. 23, 2024 — Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for ...

Using Photos or Videos, These AI Systems Can Conjure Simulations That Train Robots to Function in Physical Spaces

Aug. 7, 2024 — Two new studies introduce AI systems that use either video or photos to create simulations that can train robots to function in the real world. This ...

Physicists Develop New Method to Combine Conventional Internet With the Quantum Internet

Aug. 5, 2024 — Researchers send entangled photons and laser pulses of the same color over a single optical fiber for the first ...

Towards Smart Cities: Predicting Soil Liquefaction Risk Using Artificial Intelligence

Aug. 1, 2024 — Soil liquefaction that results in infrastructure damage has long been a point of contention for urban planners and engineers. Accurately predicting ...

Breaking MAD: Generative AI Could Break the Internet, Researchers Find

July 30, 2024 — Researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback ...

Bright Prospects for Engineering Quantum Light

July 30, 2024 — Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum ...

Robotics: Self-Powered 'Bugs' Can Skim Across Water to Detect Environmental Data

July 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a self-powered 'bug' that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic ...

Optical Fibers Fit for the Age of Quantum Computing

July 29, 2024 — A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum ...

There Is Mathematical Proof in the Pudding

July 22, 2024 — In blockchain development, there is a rule of thumb that only two of scalability, security, and decentralization are valid simultaneously. However, the mathematical expression of that rule was still ...

From Doom-Scrolling to Mindfulness

Aug. 11, 2024 — Researchers have created Mindful Scroll, a mobile app that helps users transition from doom-scrolling to adding mindfulness into their daily ...

AI Creates 'More Understandable' Cardiology Reports for Patients

July 31, 2024 — An artificial intelligence program created explanations of heart test results that were in most cases accurate, relevant, and easy to understand by ...

AI Tool Successfully Responds to Patient Questions in Electronic Health Record

July 16, 2024 — A new study shows that an AI tool can draft responses to patients' EHR queries as accurately as their human healthcare professionals, and with greater perceived ...

Want Privacy? You're Just a Stick Figure to This Camera

July 18, 2024 — A new camera could prevent companies from collecting embarrassing and identifiable photos and videos from devices like smart home cameras and robotic vacuums. It's called ...

'World Record' for Data Transmission Speed

June 28, 2024 — Researchers have sent data at a record rate of 402 terabits per second using commercially available optical fiber. This beats their previous record, announced in March 2024, of 301 terabits or ...

Researchers Develop New Training Technique That Aims to Make AI Systems Less Socially Biased

June 25, 2024 — Researchers have created a new, cost-effective training technique for artificial intelligence systems that aims to make them less socially ...

Meet CARMEN, a Robot That Helps People With Mild Cognitive Impairment

June 24, 2024 — Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation -- a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to ...

Changing Climate Will Make Home Feel Like Somewhere Else

June 20, 2024 — The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro ...

Algae Offer Real Potential as a Renewable Electricity Source

June 11, 2024 — The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That's why a team of researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no ...

Great News, Parents: You Do Have Power Over Your Tweens' Screen Use

June 5, 2024 — For many parents, it can feel like curbing kids' screen use is a losing battle. But new research has found the parenting practices that work best to curb screen time and addictive screen ...

Internet Addiction Affects the Behavior and Development of Adolescents

June 4, 2024 — Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new ...

New Open-Source Platform Allows Users to Evaluate Performance of AI-Powered Chatbots

June 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed a platform for the interactive evaluation of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT. A team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and cognitive scientists ...

Children's Visual Experience May Hold Key to Better Computer Vision Training

May 31, 2024 — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI ...

New Weapon Against Dementia

May 22, 2024 — The clumping of proteins is at the root of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer's and dementia. Researchers have now developed a new tool that can ...

An AI Leap Into Chemical Synthesis

May 21, 2024 — Scientists introduce a large language model-based AI system that revolutionizes chemistry by integrating 18 advanced tools for tasks like organic synthesis and drug ...

A Simple Quantum Internet With Significant Possibilities

May 15, 2024 — It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to ...

Chatbots Tell People What They Want to Hear

May 13, 2024 — Chatbots share limited information, reinforce ideologies, and, as a result, can lead to more polarized thinking when it comes to controversial issues, according to new research. The study challenges ...

New Machine Learning Algorithm Promises Advances in Computing

May 9, 2024 — Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine learning products, a new study ...

'Digital Afterlife': Call for Safeguards to Prevent Unwanted 'Hauntings' by AI Chatbots of Dead Loved Ones

May 8, 2024 — Researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging 'digital afterlife industry' causing social and psychological ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that ...