New Technology Gives AI Human-Like Eyes
The technology might result in highly developed artificial intelligence that can instantaneously understand what it sees and has uses in robotics and self-driving cars. Researchers…
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Future Cities Could Be Built Out of Algae-Produced Material
How scientists hope to use algae-grown limestone to build cities The burning of limestone from quarries contributes significantly to the 7% of the yearly greenhouse…
A Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Programming
The guide covers the fundamentals, along with a summary of the main quantum algorithms and instructions on how to implement them on publicly available quantum…
Stanford-Developed Millirobot Swims in Your Body and Delivers Medicine to Places That Need It
The tiny robots could bring health care closer to highly precise medicine delivery You probably already know that medications aren’t often designed to target specific…
MIT Engineers Find a Way To Save Energy and Make Water Boil More Efficiently
New surface treatments could save energy for systems used in many industries. At the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity…
Tiny Motors Take a Big Step Forward: First-Ever Solid-State Optical Nanomotor
Motors are ubiquitous in our everyday lives — from cars to washing machines, even if we rarely notice them. A futuristic scientific field is working…
MIT Professor Wins European Inventor Award for Liquid Metal Batteries
MIT professor Donald Sadoway’s work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy. For his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage…
Cleaner, Greener Batteries – Smashing the Limits of Power Storage
Thanks to the boom in renewables, these days the limiting factor of the energy revolution is not power supply as much as power storage. Cleaner,…
Smart Textiles Accurately Sense How Their Users Are Moving
MIT researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that accurately recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping. Using a novel fabrication process, scientists at…
Smaller Than a Flea – The Smallest Remote-Controlled Walking Robot Ever
The small robotic crab can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump The smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot has been created by Northwestern University engineers, and it…
MIT Spinout Tapping Into the Million-Year Energy Source Below Our Feet
Quaise Energy, an MIT spinout, is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world. There’s an abandoned coal power plant…
Nanotechnology Advances Regenerative Medicine: Bone Formation Comes Down to the Nanowire
New nanotechnology that accelerates the transition of stem cells into bone could transform regenerative medicine. A nanotechnology platform developed by King Abdullah University of Science…
AI Machine-Learning: In Bias We Trust?
According to a new study, explanation methods that help users determine whether to trust machine-learning model predictions can be less accurate for disadvantaged subgroups. Machine-learning…
Computer Chips That Imitate the Brain
A new microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand by using electrical pulses What if a computer could learn to rewire its…
Scientists Have Created a Comfortable Vest That Will Fix Your Posture
Machine learning allows self-powered fabric to correct posture An important element of health is posture. Pain and discomfort can result from long-term bad posture, such…
New Lithium-Ion Batteries That Work Well in Scorching Heat and Extreme Cold
Engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed new lithium-ion batteries that perform well at freezing cold and scorching hot temperatures, while…
Google’s Powerful Artificial Intelligence Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch
It is easy for people to mistake fluent speech for fluent thought. When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience leads you…
Major Breakthrough Puts Dream of Unlimited, Clean Nuclear Fusion Energy Within Reach
The old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. However, the dream of plentiful clean energy is no laughing matter as we…
