Bizarre Things: Computers & Math
April 30, 2025
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Apr. 23, 2025 — Addressing the challenges of fragrance design, researchers have developed an AI model that can automate the creation of new fragrances based on user-defined scent descriptors. The model uses mass spectrometry profiles of essential oils and ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were ...
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 error ...
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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. 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 — 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 ...
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 ...
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. 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. 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. 21, 2025 — Researchers observe over a dozen never-before-seen quantum states in a unique quantum ...
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 ...
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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 — 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 ...
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 ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual ...
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 ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK's first long-distance ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrodinger cat states in a superconducting microwave ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that ...
Mar. 28, 2025 — Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers has programmed these infomorphic neurons and constructed artificial ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers asked generative AI to write a research paper. While adept at some steps, it wholly failed at ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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Monday, April 14, 2025
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network
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Friday, April 4, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Physics of Irregular Objects on Inclined Planes Probed
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- 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
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Entangled in Self-Discovery: Quantum Computers Analyze Their Own Entanglement
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
- Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Energy by Mimicking the Human Brain
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Revolutionizing Touch: Researchers Explore the Future of Wearable Multi-Sensory Haptic Technology
- New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles
- These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches
- Novel Memristors to Overcome AI's 'catastrophic Forgetting'
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Marine Animals Help Solve Ocean Issues
- Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch
- Record-Breaking 12,900 Km Ultra-Secure Quantum Satellite Link
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines
- Innovative Infant Wearable Uses Artificial Intelligence for at-Home Assessments of Early Motor Development
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Dialing in the Temperature Needed for Precise Nuclear Timekeeping
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Magnetic Microalgae on a Mission to Become Robots
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics
- Most Current AI Struggles to Read Clocks and Calendars
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Muscles from the Printer: Silicone That Moves
- Foraging Footballers Suggest How We Come Together to Act as One
Monday, March 10, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- My Compliments to the Chef: Researcher Studies Robots in the Kitchen
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Study Shines Headlights on Consumer Driverless Vehicle Safety Deficiencies
- NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Quantum Properties in Atom-Thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
- ChatGPT on the Couch? How to Calm a Stressed-out AI
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot
- Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- AI Generates Playful, Human-Like Games
- What Can Theoretical Physics Teach Us About Knitting?
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents
- A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors
Friday, February 21, 2025
- How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material
- AI Unlocks the Emotional Language of Animals
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Predator Robots Help Researchers Uncover How Larval Zebrafish Rapidly Learn
- Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing
- Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- Magnetic Semiconductor Preserves 2D Quantum Properties in 3D Material
- Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension
- A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Biohybrid Hand Gestures With Human Muscles
- Scientists Develop Novel Self-Healing Electronic Skin for Health Monitoring
- Holograms Boost 3D Printing Efficiency and Resolution
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Is the Metaverse a New Frontier for Human-Centric Manufacturing?
- When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics
Monday, February 10, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Novel 'living' Biomaterial Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine
- Making an Invisible Electric Wire: Guiding Electricity With Sound
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- 'Living' Electrodes Breathe New Life Into Traditional Silicon Electronics
- Paving the Way to Quantum Supercomputers
Thursday, January 30, 2025
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Monday, January 27, 2025
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