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Technology7 Oct 2025

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip

A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson’s lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve LiDAR, a technology that uses lightwaves to measure distance. The lab was designing high-power chips that could produce brighter beams of light. “As we sent more and more power through the chip, we noticed that it was creating what we call a frequency comb,” says Andres Gil-Molina, a former postdoctoral researcher in Lipson’s lab. A frequency comb is a special type of light that contains many colors lined up next to each other in an orderly pattern, kind of like ...

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Technology6 Oct 2025

Chip-based phonon splitter brings hybrid quantum networks closer to reality

WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons — tiny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way for advanced computing and secure quantum communication. “Phonons can serve as on-chip quantum messages that connect very different quantum systems, enabling hybrid networks and new ways to process quantum information in a compact, scalable format,” said research team ...

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Technology3 Oct 2025

University of Oklahoma secures $19.9 million for revolutionary radar technology

NORMAN, Okla. – Researchers at the University of Oklahoma’s Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) continue to lead the way in radar innovation. A $19.9 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 program will fund the development of two groundbreaking KaRVIR systems (Dual-Doppler 3D Mobile Ka-band Rapid-Scanning Volume Imaging Radars for Earth System Science). These state-of-the-art radars will provide unique capabilities to close critical observational gaps in the atmospheric ...

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Technology3 Oct 2025

Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light

Quantum technologies demand perfection: one photon at a time, every time, all with the same energy. Even tiny deviations in the number or energy of photons can derail devices, threatening the performance of quantum computers that someday could make up a quantum internet. While this level of precision is difficult to achieve, Northwestern University engineers have developed a novel strategy that makes quantum light sources, which dispense single photons, more consistent, precise and reliable. In a new study, the team coated an atomically thin semiconductor (tungsten diselenide) with a sheetlike organic molecule called PTCDA. The coating transformed ...

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Technology3 Oct 2025

Researchers demonstrates substrate design principles for scalable superconducting quantum materials

Silicides — alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics — are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some silicide phases are superconducting while others are not. The study, published in Applied Physics Letters by NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Brookhaven National Laboratory, shows how substrate choice influences phase formation and interfacial stability in superconducting vanadium silicide films, providing design guidelines for improving material quality. The team, led by NYU Tandon professor Davood Shahrjerdi, focused on vanadium silicide, ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Countries with highest reported levels of hearing loss have lowest use of hearing aids

Countries with the highest reported levels of hearing loss also have the lowest reported use of hearing aids, finds international research published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. And men are generally more likely than women to report difficulties with their hearing, although this gender divide narrows with age, the findings show. An estimated 1.57 billion people—equivalent to 1 in 5 of the world’s population—had hearing loss in 2019. And it’s predicted that it will affect 2.45 billion people by 2050, say the researchers. Hearing loss is associated with an array of problems ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Plant microbiota: War and peace under the surface

When we talk about microbiota, we usually think of the one inhabiting our gut. But there is another, less known and equally vital: the plant microbiota. In an article featured on the cover of Science (October 2, 2025), Professor Niko Geldner and his team at the University of Lausanne (Unil) unveil the subtle alliances and rivalries that unfold between bacteria and roots, hidden beneath the soil. Roots and microbes The plant microbiota, or “phytobiome,” brings together communities of bacterial and fungal microorganisms that can be partners, allies—and sometimes enemies. The part most closely associated with roots is called the “rhizospheric” ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

AI wrote nearly a quarter of corporate press releases in 2024

Since 2022, American companies, consumers, and even the United Nations have used large language models—artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT that are trained to create text that reads like human-generated writing. In a study publishing October 2 in the Cell Press journal Patterns, researchers reveal that AI is used in an average of 17% of analyzed corporate and governmental written content, from job posts to press releases, and this rate will likely continue to increase. “This is the first comprehensive review of the use of AI-assisted ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Use of ambient AI scribes to reduce administrative burden and professional burnout

About The Study: This multicenter quality improvement study found that use of an ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribe platform was associated with a significant reduction in burnout, cognitive task load, and time spent documenting, as well as the perception that it could improve patient access to care and increase attention on patient concerns in an ambulatory environment. These findings suggest that AI may help reduce administrative burdens for clinicians and allow more time for meaningful work and ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Mount Sinai study highlights sex-based pelvic differences’ effect on spinal screw, rod placement during surgical procedures

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Verello Mount Sinai Press Office 212-241-9200 daniel.verello@mountsinai.org Mount Sinai Study Highlights Sex-Based Pelvic Differences’ Effect on Spinal Screw, Rod Placement During Surgical Procedures Findings aimed at tailoring treatment to patients’ specific anatomy Journal: Spine Deformity Title: Impact of sex on S2-alar-iliac pelvic screw position and lumbosacral rod alignment in adult spine deformity Senior Author: James D. Lin, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Orthopedics (Spine Surgery), ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

New polymer designs for beyond-5G telecommunications

With the rollout of fifth-generation (5G) telecommunications networks and 6G looming on the horizon, the demand for advanced materials that can handle high-frequency signals is rising rapidly. These systems use electromagnetic waves ranging from tens to hundreds of gigahertz (GHz), where signals are highly sensitive to transmission loss, interference, and distortion. To address these issues, scientists and engineers rely on special insulating materials, known as dielectrics, which help guide signals with minimal loss. Polymer-based dielectrics are particularly attractive. ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Hanbat National University study finds quantum computing can make homes smarter and greener

Residential heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute a significant proportion of energy usage in buildings, necessitating energy management optimization. In this context, occupancy aware HVAC control is a promising option with 20-50% energy savings in homes. However, occupancy sensing technology suffers from long payback times, privacy issues, and poor comfort. Moreover, there is an increasing need for further advanced technologies that help regulate indoor air quality in addition to energy control. To meet these expectations, scientists have recently turned to intelligent control methods such as ...

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Technology2 Oct 2025

Scalable AI tracks motion from single molecules to wildebeests

University of Michigan researchers have developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an eye—or at least overnight. Understanding the behavior of single molecules is important: it can lead to knowledge of different cellular processes or track how diseases begin and progress. To track the behavior of single molecules, researchers tag the molecules with what's called a fluorophore. They excite these fluorophores with a laser, then use powerful microscopes to follow the behavior of the tagged molecules over time. But ...

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Technology1 Oct 2025

Can AI persuade you to go vegan—or harm yourself?

Large language models are more persuasive than humans, according to recent UBC research. Their vocabulary, perceived empathy and ability to provide tangible resources in seconds add to their persuasiveness, which has led to growing concerns and ongoing lawsuits about the potential for AI chatbots to cause harm to users. In this Q&A, Dr. Vered Shwartz, UBC assistant professor of computer science and author of the book Lost in Automatic Translation, discusses her findings as well as potential safeguards for the future of AI. Why does the persuasiveness of AI matter? VS: Large ...

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Technology1 Oct 2025

New AI enhances the view inside fusion energy systems

Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that’s left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide the audio automatically based on the pictures, reading lips and noting each time a foot hits the ground? That’s the general concept behind a new AI that fills in missing data about plasma, the fuel of fusion, according to Azarakhsh Jalalvand of Princeton University. Jalalvand is the lead author on a paper ...

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Technology1 Oct 2025

Pathogenic yeast strains found in urban air but not along the coast

As city dwellers may know, escaping to the beach can provide a much-needed change of scenery or a mental reset. Historically, some doctors even prescribed trips to the sea to treat diseases. And now, research published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters provides another reason to visit the coast. A pilot study found that urban air contained pathogenic strains of Candida yeast that were absent in coastal air samples, revealing a potential transmission method. Candida yeasts are a group of common microbes that exist harmlessly on people’s skin and in ...

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Technology1 Oct 2025

New software tool aims to help scientists better analyze complex spatial data from tissues

New York, NY [October 1, 2025]—Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, have developed a software platform to help scientists more easily analyze the molecular structure of tissue in both healthy and disease states. Details on the platform, called Giotto Suite, were reported in the October 1 online issue of Nature Methods [DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02817-w]. In recent years, new technologies have made it possible to capture detailed maps of RNA and proteins within intact tissues—a field known as spatial omics. These ...

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Technology30 Sep 2025

Parallel atom-photon entanglement paves way for future quantum networking

A new platform developed by Illinois Grainger engineers demonstrates the utility of a ytterbium-171 atom array in quantum networking. Their work represents a key step toward long distance quantum communication. A new platform developed by Illinois Grainger engineers demonstrates the utility of a ytterbium-171 atom array in quantum networking. Their work represents a key step toward long distance quantum communication. Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have introduced a scalable platform for quantum networking with a ytterbium-171 ...

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Technology30 Sep 2025

Frequent wildfires, heat intensify air quality issues in American megacities such as New York City

Air quality in America’s largest cities has steadily improved thanks to tighter regulations on key sources of particulate pollution. However, increased heat, wildfire smoke and other emerging global drivers of urban aerosol pollution are now combining to create a new set of challenges for public health officials tasked with protecting millions of people on the East Coast. Research from Colorado State University published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science begins to unpack and characterize these developing relationships against the backdrop of New York City. The research quantifies how existing particulate pollution from sources such as vehicle exhaust or consumer products are ...

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Technology30 Sep 2025

Machine learning sharpens earthquake risk assessment maps for Tokyo

Tokyo, one of the world’s most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major earthquakes is ever-present. One of the most destructive aspects of seismic events in Tokyo is a geological phenomenon known as soil liquefaction. This occurs when the intense shaking from an earthquake causes saturated, loosely packed soil to temporarily lose its strength and stiffness, essentially causing the ground to behave like a liquid. The devastating effects of soil liquefaction have been documented many times, such as in the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and the recent 2024 Noto Peninsula ...

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Technology30 Sep 2025

Touch sensor of the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap revealed

Saitama, Japan: Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick succession, they initiate the closure cascade that captures prey. However, the molecular identity of the touch sensor has remained unclear. Assistant Professor Hiraku Suda and Professor Masatsugu Toyota at Saitama University, Saitama, Japan, together with colleagues and in collaboration with the research group of Professor Mitsuyasu Hasebe at the National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB), Okazaki, Japan, have revealed that an ion channel named DmMSL10, enriched at the ...

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Technology29 Sep 2025

Could your next job interview be with a chatbot? New study seeks to help bring fairness into AI-powered hiring

Landing a job traditionally meant polishing a resume, printing extra copies and sitting across from a hiring manager. Today, the first “person” to evaluate you might not be a person at all — it could be a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. These automated systems can ask questions, score responses and even recommend who gets hired. Rice University’s Tianjun Sun has received a National Science Foundation award to lead a two-year collaborative project with the University of Florida examining how AI interview systems work — and how to make them more fair. For employers, chatbot interviews promise consistency ...

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Technology29 Sep 2025

Scalable and efficient quantum error correction for fault-tolerant quantum computing

A new class of highly efficient and scalable quantum low-density parity-check error correction codes, capable of performance approaching the theoretical hashing bound, has been developed by scientists at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. These novel error-correction codes can handle quantum codes with hundreds of thousands of qubits, potentially enabling large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing, with applications in diverse fields, including quantum chemistry and optimization problems. In recent years, quantum computers have begun to handle double-digit quantum bits, or qubits. However, many essential applications targeted by quantum computers, such as quantum chemistry, ...

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Technology28 Sep 2025

Higher levels of air pollution linked to worsening of sleep apnea

People who have obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) may suffer worse symptoms if they live in areas with higher levels of air pollution, according to a multi-national study presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]. Patients with OSA often snore loudly, their breathing starts and stops during the night, and they may wake up several times. Not only does this cause excessive sleepiness, but it can also increase the risk of high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. OSA is very common, ...

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Technology27 Sep 2025

Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function

Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function Eating fruit may reduce the effects of air pollution on lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]. The study was presented by Pimpika Kaewsri, a PhD student from the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at the University of Leicester, UK. She explains: “Over 90% of the global population is exposed to air pollution levels that exceed WHO guidelines, and ample ...

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