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Building blocks and quantum computers: New research leans on modularity

What do children’s building blocks and quantum computing have in common? The answer is modularity. It is difficult for scientists to build quantum computers monolithically – that is, as a single large unit. Quantum computing relies on the manipulation of millions of information units called qubits, but these qubits are difficult to assemble. The solution? Finding modular ways to construct quantum computers. Like plastic children’s bricks that lock together to create larger, more intricate structures, ...

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UC Davis study reveals alarming browser tracking by GenAI assistants

A new study led by computer scientists at the University of California, Davis, reveals that generative AI browser assistants collect and share sensitive data without users’ knowledge. Stronger safeguards, transparency and awareness are needed to protect user privacy online, the researchers said. A new brand of generative AI, or GenAI, browser extensions act as your personal assistant as you surf the web, making browsing easier and more personalized. They can summarize web pages, answer questions, translate text and take notes. But ...

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A comprehensive survey of orbital edge computing: Systems, applications, and algorithms

Recently, a team from the Space-based Intelligence Laboratory at the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, reviewed the recent development trends in orbital edge computing. They conducts a comprehensive survey and analysis of OEC's system architecture, applications, algorithms, and simulation tools, providing a solid background for researchers in the field. By discussing OEC use cases and the challenges faced, potential research directions for future OEC research are proposed. The team published ...

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AI hybrid strategy improves mammogram interpretation

OAK BROOK, Ill. – A hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography, developed by Dutch researchers and deployed retrospectively to more than 40,000 exams, reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection rates. The study, which emphasizes AI confidence, was published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). “Although the overall performance of state-of-the-art AI models is very high, AI sometimes makes mistakes,” said Sarah D. Verboom, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate in the Department of Medical Imaging ...

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How AI support can go wrong in safety-critical settings

COLUMBUS, Ohio – When it comes to adopting artificial intelligence in high-stakes settings like hospitals and airplanes, good AI performance and a brief worker training on the technology is not sufficient to ensure systems will run smoothly and patients and passengers will be safe, a new study suggests. Instead, algorithms and the people who use them in the most safety-critical organizations must be evaluated simultaneously to get an accurate view of AI’s effects on human decision making, researchers say. The team also contends these evaluations should assess how people respond to good, mediocre and poor technology performance ...

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A novel technology to control crystallinity of pore walls

Metal oxide materials with nanoscale pores have been applied and studied in a wide range of fields, including as catalysts, adsorption and separation materials, and energy materials. Among them, single-crystalline nanoporous metal oxides—with interconnected nanopores in a single crystal—are especially lucrative. They have recently attracted attention as unique materials that combine the desirable properties of nanoporous materials, such as high specific surface area and large pore volume, with those of single crystals. While metal oxide nanoporous structures have been conventionally synthesized by replicating the nanostructure ...

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Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants. Bianca Pamela Aridjis-Olivos, a graduate student in aerosol and atmospheric chemistry at Texas A&M University will present her team’s results at the fall meeting of ...

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Meet Allie, the AI-powered chess bot trained on data from 91 million games

Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" during the pandemic and began playing online. However, he quickly realized how unnatural it felt playing against chess bots. "After I learned the rules, I was in the bottom 10%, maybe 20% of players online," said Zhang, who is part of the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) in CMU's School of Computer Science. "For beginners, ...

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Can green technologies resolve the “dilemma” in wheat production?

As the world’s largest wheat producer, China’s annual wheat output reaches 136 million tons, and the stability of its production is directly related to global food security. However, in recent years, China’s wheat imports have continued to rise, reaching 9.96 million tons in 2022. Meanwhile, environmental problems caused by excessive fertilizer application have become increasingly prominent. How to ensure output while reducing resource consumption and environmental costs has become a core issue for sustainable agricultural development. Recently, ...

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Green high-yield and high-efficiency technology: a new path balancing yield and ecology

As a staple food for more than half of the global population, the high and stable yield of rice is directly related to food security. As the world’s largest rice producer, China has increased rice yield per unit through intensive fertilization and flood irrigation, but this model has also brought problems such as soil degradation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. How to ensure food supply while breaking through resource and environmental constraints? Xusheng Meng and colleagues from Nanjing Agricultural University proposed a green, high-yield, and high-efficiency rice technology system in a review study, providing a solution to this problem. The ...

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How can science and technology solve the problem of increasing grain yield per unit area?

The North China Plain is an important “granary” in China, with its winter wheat and summer maize planting areas accounting for 73.6% and 30.6% of the national total for wheat and maize respectively. However, its agricultural production has long been trapped in the dilemma of “high input, low efficiency”—fertilizer usage has increased more than 4 times compared with 40 years ago, while grain output has only risen by 1.2 times. Problems such as over-exploitation of water resources and soil degradation have also become increasingly prominent. How to balance ...

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Deep learning model successfully predicted ignition in inertial confinement fusion experiment

Brian Spears and colleagues built a generative machine learning model that was used to successfully predict the outcome of a recent fusion ignition experiment at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF). Their model predicted, with a probability greater than 70%, that ignition was the most likely outcome of the experiment. The findings could guide researchers working on future inertial confinement fusion experiments, which use energetic lasers to compress and heat a capsule of hydrogen isotopes to create nuclear reactions that produce fusion energy. Ignition ...

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Paper: Decarbonize agriculture by expanding policies aimed at low-carbon biofuels

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of agricultural economists, environmental scientists and policy experts envisions a path toward a carbon-neutral agricultural future by expanding the reach of policies designed to promote low-carbon biofuels for transportation and aviation. In a new paper in the journal Science, the researchers propose policies that would reward farmers for adopting “climate-smart” practices when growing biofuel crops and remove the hurdles that currently thwart such efforts. Climate-smart practices include techniques that build soil carbon, like cover-cropping, not tilling fields after harvest and adding biochar ...

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AI also assesses Dutch mammograms better than radiologists

AI is detecting tumors more often and earlier in the Dutch breast cancer screening program. Those tumors can then be treated at an earlier stage. This has been demonstrated by researchers led by Radboud university medical center in a study published in The Lancet Digital Health. The use of AI could reduce workload and save millions of euros annually. Previous research in Sweden had already shown that AI detects breast cancer on mammograms more frequently than radiologists. Moreover, AI can reduce the workload for radiologists. Now, it appears that AI can also replace the second radiologist in the Dutch breast cancer screening program. This ...

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Adoption of AI-scribes by doctors raises ethical questions

Many New Zealand GPs have taken up the use of AI scribes to transcribe patient notes during consultations despite ongoing challenges with their legal and ethical oversight, data security, patient consent, and the impact on the doctor-patient relationship, a study led by the University of Otago, Wellington – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke has found. The researchers surveyed 197 health providers working in primary care in February and March of 2024, providing a snapshot in time of the use of AI-scribes in clinical practice. Most of the respondents were GPs but others included nurses, nurse practitioners, rural emergency ...

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Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD

New York, NY (August 14, 2025) – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in children. The study, published today in BMC Environmental Health, is the first to apply the rigorous Navigation Guide methodology to systematically evaluate the rigor and quality of the scientific literature. Acetaminophen (often sold under the brand name Tylenol®, and known as paracetamol outside the United States and Canada) is the most commonly used over-the-counter ...

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AI Chatbots can be exploited to extract more personal information

AI Chatbots that provide human-like interactions are used by millions of people every day, however new research has revealed that they can be easily manipulated to encourage users to reveal even more personal information. Intentionally malicious AI chatbots can influence users to reveal up to 12.5 times more of their personal information, a new study by King’s College London has found. For the first time, the research shows how conversational AI (CAIs) programmed to deliberately extract data can successfully encourage users to reveal private information using known prompt techniques and psychological ...

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MSU study finds print wins over digital for preschoolers learning to read

Aug. 11, 2025 MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Why this matters: A new MSU study shows that simple, hands-on activities, such as writing letters and pointing out words in daily life, are the most effective way to build early reading skills. Both children with and without speech and/or language impairments experienced literacy gains from print-related activities; however, ...

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Ultrasound AI publishes landmark study demonstrating breakthrough in predicting delivery timing using AI and ultrasound images

Ultrasound AI, a pioneer in artificial intelligence applications for medical imaging, today announced the publication of groundbreaking findings from its PAIR (Perinatal Artificial Intelligence in Ultrasound) Study in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. The study was performed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Kentucky and validates Ultrasound AI’s proprietary technology that more accurately predicts time to delivery using only standard ultrasound images. This technology offers a non-invasive, efficient, and scalable tool ...

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Finding the shadows in a fusion system faster with AI

A public-private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what’s known as “magnetic shadows” in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma. Known as HEAT-ML, the new AI could lay the foundation for software that significantly speeds up the design of future fusion systems. Such software could also enable good decision-making during fusion operations by adjusting the plasma so that ...

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Chungnam National University researchers develop next-gen zinc batteries: artificial polymer nanolayers improve zinc battery stability

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining attention as a safer and more affordable alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). While LIBs remain the most widely used energy storage technology, they come with safety risks due to their reliance on flammable organic electrolytes. In contrast, aqueous ZIBs use water-based electrolytes, making them non-flammable, environment friendly, and more affordable. Unfortunately, during charging and discharging, zinc-anodes in ZIBs undergo repeated plating and stripping that can trigger undesirable side reactions and sharp dendrite formation. This severely impacts their ...

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AI web browser assistants raise serious privacy concerns

Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security numbers, without adequate safeguards, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and Mediterranea University of ​​Reggio Calabria. The study, which will be presented and published as part of the USENIX Security Symposium, is the first large-scale analysis of generative AI browser assistants and privacy. It uncovered widespread tracking, profiling, and personalisation ...

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Tiny robots use sound to self-organize into intelligent groups

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists have taken a page from nature's playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound waves to coordinate into large swarms that exhibit intelligent-like behavior. The robot groups could one day carry out complex tasks like exploring disaster zones, cleaning up pollution, or performing medical treatments from inside the body, according to team lead Igor Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, ...

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Sun to study software vulnerability detection & remediation

Kun Sun, Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), is set to receive funding for the project: “Collaborative Research: CIRC: Planning-C: An Infrastructure and Dataset for Research in Software Vulnerability Detection and Remediation.” Sun will plan an infrastructure featuring a continuous collection framework that captures scalable and multimodal data to facilitate high-impact software vulnerability research through a series of planning activities. He and his collaborators will conduct surveys and interviews with the security, software engineering, and human-computer interaction communities to understand researchers’ ...

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RSNA AI challenge models can independently interpret mammograms

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Algorithms submitted for an AI Challenge hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have shown excellent performance for detecting breast cancers on mammography images, increasing screening sensitivity while maintaining low recall rates, according to a study published today in Radiology, the premier journal of the RSNA. The RSNA Screening Mammography Breast Cancer Detection AI Challenge was a crowdsourced competition that took place in 2023, with more than 1,500 teams participating. The ...

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