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Technology16 Sep 2025

Fast traffic algorithm could improve real-time traffic forecasts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2025 – Everyone hates traffic. Big cities in particular are plagued by an overabundance of vehicles, turning a simple crosstown jaunt into an odyssey during rush hour. Part of the problem is that traffic is incredibly complex, and a small change in one part of the system can have ripple effects that alter traffic patterns throughout a city. City planners attempting to improve local traffic grids can often struggle to foresee all the effects their changes could have. In Chaos, by AIP Publishing, a pair of ...

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Technology16 Sep 2025

SwRI, UT San Antonio collaboration uses machine learning to detect pre-ignition in hydrogen engines

SAN ANTONIO — September 16, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) are collaborating to create a detection system to identify pre-ignition in hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2-ICE). Researchers will combine machine learning (ML) algorithms and artificial intelligence with onboard sensors to help detect pre-ignitions based on their tell-tale signs. Pre-ignition occurs when unprompted combustion happens inside an engine before the prescribed spark timing. These abnormal, uncontrolled ...

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Technology16 Sep 2025

Kennesaw State secures grant to build community of AI educators

The International Data Corporation projects that artificial intelligence will add $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, yet educators are still defining how students should learn to use the technology responsibly. To better equip AI educators and to foster a sense of community among those in the field, Kennesaw State University Department Chair and Professor of Information Technology (IT) Shaoen Wu, along with assistant professors Seyedamin Pouriyeh and Chloe “Yixin” Xie, were recently awarded two National Science Foundation ...

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Technology16 Sep 2025

Artificial intelligence spots hidden signs of depression in students’ facial expressions

Depression is one of the most common mental health challenges, but its early signs are often overlooked. It is often linked to reduced facial expressivity. However, whether mild depression or subthreshold depression (StD) (a mild state of depressive symptoms that does not meet the criteria for diagnosis but is a risk factor for developing depression) is associated with changes in facial expressions remains unknown. In light of this, Associate Professor Eriko Sugimori and doctoral student Mayu Yamaguchi ...

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Technology16 Sep 2025

CRF and the Jon DeHaan Foundation to launch TCT AI Lab at TCT 2025

NEW YORK AND NAPLES, FL – September 15, 2025 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation® (CRF®) and Jon DeHaan Foundation today announced the launch of the TCT AI Lab, a groundbreaking new program debuting at TCT® 2025, October 25–28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The TCT AI Lab is a first-of-its-kind destination dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence into clinical practice. Over three intensive days, clinicians will progress from the fundamentals of AI to hands-on clinical applications – guided by leading innovators ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades

Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is once again home to Canada’s most powerful academic supercomputer, following the installation of a new system, named Fir. The new Fir system replaces the Cedar supercomputer, housed at the Cedar Supercomputing Centre (the Centre) at SFU. Fir is ranked number 78 in the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the only Canadian system in the top 100 worldwide. “The new Fir supercomputer represents a much needed, major upgrade to the national Canadian computing infrastructure,” says ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure

By Chris Woolston The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put under immense pressure? Observing quantum effects under pressure has proven difficult for a simple reason: Designing sensors that can withstand extreme force is challenging. In a significant advance, a team led by physicists at WashU has created quantum sensors in an unbreakable sheet of crystallized boron nitride. The sensors can measure stress and magnetism in materials under pressure that exceeds 30,000 times the pressure of the ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

Interactive apps, AI chatbots promote playfulness, reduce privacy concerns

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The more interactive a mobile app or artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is, the more playful they are perceived to be, with users letting their guard down and risking their privacy, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. The researchers studied the effect of mobile app interactivity on users’ vigilance toward privacy risks during the sign-up process, and how this shapes their attitudes toward the app and their willingness to keep using it. The team found that interactivity motivates users to engage with the app by fostering a heightened sense of playfulness and lowering their privacy ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

SwRI installs private 5G network for research, development, testing and evaluation

SAN ANTONIO — September 15, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) installed a private 5G research, development, test and evaluation network to boost security, eliminate dependency on outside mobile network providers and expand network access for advanced 5G projects. The secure, high-velocity 5G network allows rapid deployment of communication resources and wireless connectivity on the SwRI campus or off-site in the field, providing wide coverage for research and development. The SwRI network supports a range of 5G advancements — including cybersecurity research, drone technology, edge computing initiatives, and antenna development and testing — but a private ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

Mount Sinai launches cardiac catheterization artificial intelligence research lab

Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital has announced the launch of The Samuel Fineman Cardiac Catheterization Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Lab. This new lab will leverage the hospital’s world-renowned Cardiac Catheterization Lab and its unrivaled expertise to advance the field of interventional cardiology and enhance patient care, patient outcomes, as well as to optimize complex treatment decisions. Annapoorna Kini, MD, will serve as Director of The Samuel Fineman Cardiac Catheterization Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. As Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

Why AI is never going to run the world

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The secret to human intelligence can’t be replicated or improved on by artificial intelligence, according to researcher Angus Fletcher. Fletcher, a professor of English at The Ohio State University’s Project Narrative, explains in a new book that AI is very good at one thing: logic. But many of life’s most fundamental problems require a different type of intelligence. “AI takes one feature of intelligence – logic – and accelerates it. As long as life calls for math, AI crushes humans,” Fletcher writes in the book “Primal ...

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Technology15 Sep 2025

AI risks overwriting history and the skills of historians have never been more important, leading academic outlines in new paper

Human historians are ever more vital in the age of AI – especially with the crucial need to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events. That’s according to a leading academic Dr Jan Burzlaff, an expert on Nazi Germany from Cornell University, who when tasking ChatGPT to summarize the experiences of Holocaust survivors found the AI tool failed to capture intimate, vital details. “With the testimony of Luisa D., a seven-year-old Holocaust survivor, AI overlooked heartbreaking details about her mother cutting her own finger to give her dying child drops of blood – ‘the faintest trace of moisture’ – to stay ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Measuring the quantum W state

Kyoto, Japan -- The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics. Referring to a situation in which it is impossible to describe the physics of each photon separately, this key characteristic of quantum mechanics defies the classical expectation that each particle should have a reality of its own, which gravely concerned Einstein. Understanding the potential of this concept is essential for the realization of powerful new quantum technologies. Developing such technologies will require the ability ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium

Photos Scientists can now reliably chill specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours while taking images resolved to the level of individual atoms with an electron microscope. The new capability comes from a liquid-helium-cooled sample holder designed by a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Michigan and Harvard University, whose work was federally funded by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Conventional instruments can usually maintain such an extreme temperature, about -423 degrees ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications

Electrons in a magnetic field can display striking behaviors, from the formation of discrete energy levels to the quantum Hall effect. These discoveries have shaped our understanding of quantum materials and topological phases of matter. Light, however, is made of neutral particles and does not naturally respond to magnetic fields in the same way. This has limited the ability of researchers to reproduce such effects in optical systems, particularly at the high frequencies used in modern communications. To address this challenge, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Mount Sinai researchers find electrical stimulation may help predict recovery path for acute nerve injuries

Journal: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Title: Is a Response to Intraoperative Electrical Nerve Stimulation Associated with Recovery After Stretch Injury in the Rat Median Nerve? Authors: Paul J. Cagle, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedics (Shoulder and Elbow Surgery), Associate Residency Program Director, and Chief of Quality Assurance at Mount Sinai West in the Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopedic Surgery Michael R. Hausman, MD, Dr. Robert K. Lippmann Professor of Orthopaedics, Vice Chair of Orthopedics, and Chief of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

New College of AI, Cyber and Computing launched at UT San Antonio

(SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio launched the College of AI, Cyber and Computing on Sept. 1 bringing together academic programs in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, computing and data science. The new college positions UT San Antonio at the forefront of technological education and research and brings the number of academic colleges at UT San Antonio to nine. Formation of the college began during a multi-phase process in January 2024 with the announcement of a university-wide initiative to elevate the university’s leadership in emerging technologies. Shaped by input across campus and community partners, the effort included a dedicated ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Uniting the light spectrum on a chip

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices. Now, a Caltech team led by Alireza Marandi, a professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at Caltech, has created a tiny device capable of producing an unusually wide range of laser-light ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Artificial intelligence‑assisted conductive hydrogel dressings for refractory wounds monitoring

As chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, and articular wounds continue to challenge global healthcare systems, a team of researchers from China has introduced a promising innovation: AI-integrated conductive hydrogel dressings for intelligent wound monitoring and healing. This comprehensive review, led by researchers from China Medical University and Northeastern University, outlines how these smart dressings combine real-time physiological signal detection with artificial intelligence, offering a new paradigm in personalized wound care. Why It Matters: Real-Time Monitoring: Conductive hydrogels can track key wound ...

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Technology12 Sep 2025

Wearable devices could revolutionize pregnancy monitoring and detect abnormalities

LA JOLLA, CA— A simple fitness tracker might hold the key to revolutionizing maternal healthcare. Scientists at Scripps Research have found preliminary evidence suggesting that common wearable devices such as the Apple Watch, Garmin and Fitbit could remotely monitor pregnancy-related health changes by tracking physiological patterns—like heart rate—that correlate with hormonal fluctuations. “Wearable devices offer a unique opportunity to develop innovative solutions that address the high number of adverse pregnancy outcomes ...

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Technology11 Sep 2025

AI tools fall short in predicting suicide, study finds

The accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting suicidal behavior is too low to be useful for screening or for prioritizing high-risk individuals for interventions, according to a new study published September 11th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Matthew Spittal of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues. Numerous risk assessment scales have been developed over the past 50 years to identify patients at high risk of suicide or self-harm. In general, these scales have had poor predictive accuracy, but the availability of modern machine ...

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Technology11 Sep 2025

Analyzing impact of heat from western wildfires on air pollution in the eastern US

According to a new study, most climate models exploring wildfires’ impacts on air quality overlook the effect of heat from a fire in one location on altering weather patterns – and in turn air quality – in locations farther afield. The authors of this study report that wildfires in the western United States are worsening air quality in the West but, paradoxically, may be improving it in the East. Over recent decades, wildfires in the western United States have become more frequent and intense, releasing vast amounts of smoke, which can greatly degrade air quality both locally and in regions far downwind. Often assumed to worsen when wildfire smoke drifts eastward from the ...

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Technology11 Sep 2025

Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their “extended” body

Genoa (Italy), 11 September 2025 - Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their body schema, particularly when it comes to carrying out a task together, like slicing a bar of soap. The study has been published in the journal iScience and can pave the way for a better design of robots that have to function in close contact with humans, such as those used in rehabilitation. The project, led by Alessandra Sciutti, IIT Principal ...

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Technology11 Sep 2025

Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of chargeless quantum information carriers

Images A new nanostructure acts like a wire and switch that can, for the first time, control and direct the flow of quantum quasiparticles called excitons at room temperature. The transistor-like switch developed by University of Michigan engineers could speed up information transfer or even enable circuits that run on excitons instead of electricity—paving the way for a new class of devices. Because they have no electrical charge, excitons have the potential to move quantum information without the losses that come with moving electrically charged particles like electrons. ...

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Technology11 Sep 2025

Clocks created from random events can probe ‘quantumness’ of universe

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists at King’s College London reveal. The researchers suggest that these formulae could help to understand how cells in our bodies measure time and to detect the effects of quantum mechanics in the wider world. Studying these timekeeping processes could have far-reaching implications, helping us to understand proteins with rhythmic movements which malfunction in motor neurone disease or chemical receptors that cells use to detect harmful toxins. Einstein famously said that “Time is whatever a clock measures” ...

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