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Technology6 Aug 2025

Researchers discover universal laws of quantum entanglement across all dimensions

A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective theory to demonstrate that quantum entanglement follows universal rules across all dimensions. Their study was published online on August 5, in Physical Review Letters as an Editors’ Suggestion. “This study is the first example of applying thermal effective theory to quantum information. The results of this study demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, and we hope to further develop this approach to gain a deeper understanding of quantum entanglement structures,” ...

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Technology5 Aug 2025

Zhou receives funding for novel performance profiling & analysis infrastructure for scientific deep learning workloads

Zhou Receives Funding For Novel Performance Profiling & Analysis Infrastructure For Scientific Deep Learning Workloads Keren Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “Collaborative Research: Elements: DLToolkit: A Novel Performance Profiling and Analysis Infrastructure for Scientific Deep Learning Workloads.” The rapid adoption of deep learning (DL)-driven artificial intelligence (AI) applications makes it more crucial than ever ...

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Technology5 Aug 2025

Digital-coded metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of the new paradigm in wireless communication

Professor Xufeng Jing’s research team at China Jiliang University has conducted a systematic study on wireless communication technologies based on metasurfaces. This paper provides a detailed introduction to the working principles and classifications of passive, active, and semi-active metasurfaces, with a particular focus on how digital-coded metasurfaces achieve precise control over the phase and polarization of electromagnetic waves through dynamic tuning of unit structures. The research team emphasizes the core advantages of metasurfaces in wireless communication, including miniaturization, ...

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Technology5 Aug 2025

Action curiosity algorithm boosts autonomous navigation in uncertain environments

Self-driving cars know their own way in unpredictable traffic, thanks to path planning technology. Among current AI-driven efforts to make path planning more efficient and reliable, a research team has developed an optimization method proven especially effective in uncertain environments. The results were published June 3 under the title “Action-Curiosity-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Path Planning in a Nondeterministic Environment” in Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal. The team evaluated their method in a realistic ...

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Technology5 Aug 2025

Machine learning-based design enables more efficient wireless power transfer

Wireless power transfer (WPT) systems transmit electrical energy from a power source to a load without physical connectors or wires, using electromagnetic fields. This idea goes as far back as the 1890s, when Nikola Tesla famously experimented with wireless energy transmission. Today, WPT systems are widely used to power smartphones, electric toothbrushes, and wireless sensors for the Internet of Things. A typical WPT system has a transmitter coil connected to a power source. This transmitter converts the supplied power into an electromagnetic field, which is received by a receiver coil that ...

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Technology5 Aug 2025

How can visual artists protect their work from AI crawlers? It’s complicated

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so. One of the best ways to protect artists’ creative work is to prevent it from ever being seen by “AI crawlers” – the programs that harvest data on the Internet for training generative models. But most artists don’t have access to the tools that would allow them to take such actions. And when they do have access, they don’t ...

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Technology4 Aug 2025

Crop monitoring system utilizing IoT, AI and other tech showcased at ASABE

Researchers from South Dakota State University presented a high-tech system to help farmers optimize crop yields while lowering costs at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. The system, detailed in Integrating IoT and secure data transmission in a crop monitoring system, tracks and analyzes crop development through data collected by sensors, biosensors, the Internet of Things and AI. While the majority of projects that build systems utilizing IoT only simulate post-quantum security on super computers, ...

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Technology4 Aug 2025

Simple algorithm paired with standard imaging tool could predict failure in lithium metal batteries

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: scanning electron microscopy. The advance could accelerate the development of safer, longer-lasting and more energy-dense batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage. The work was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lithium metal batteries have the potential to store twice as much energy as today’s lithium-ion batteries. That could double the range of electric cars and ...

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Technology4 Aug 2025

Pan Feng’s team advances inverse design of catalytic materials with topological AI

Peking University, June 18, 2025: A collaborative research team led by Professor Pan Feng from the School of New Materials at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has developed a topology-based variational autoencoder framework (PGH-VAEs) to enable the interpretable inverse design of catalytic active sites. Their study, titled “Inverse design of catalytic active sites via interpretable topology-based deep generative models” and published in npj Computational Materials, introduces a novel integration of graph-theoretic structural chemistry, algebraic topology, and deep generative models, enabling ...

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Technology4 Aug 2025

Pioneering AI approach enhances prediction of complex astrochemical reactions

Decoding cosmic evolution depends on accurately predicting the complex chemical reactions in the harsh environment of space. Traditional methods for such predictions rely heavily on costly laboratory experiments or expert knowledge, both of which are resource-intensive and limited in scope. Recently, a research team developed an innovative AI tool that predicts astrochemical reactions with high accuracy and efficiency, demonstrating that deep learning techniques can successfully address data limitations in astrochemistry. Titled “A Two-Stage End-to-End Deep Learning Approach for Predicting Astrochemical Reactions,” this research was published ...

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Technology4 Aug 2025

Plan, prepare, conquer: predicting mountain accident risks with deep learning and pre-climb data

Japan is famous for its beautiful mountain landscapes as well as for the challenges it offers to avid mountaineers. However, these mountains can get so treacherous that Japan actually records one of the highest numbers of mountain accidents globally. In fact, Japan had 3,126 mountain accidents in 2023, the highest annual total since 1961. In particular, Nagano Prefecture, which has many mountains popular among climbers, is one of the regions with a high number of mountaineering accidents due to its ...

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Technology1 Aug 2025

‘Shore Wars:’ New research aims to resolve coastal conflict between oysters and mangroves, aiding restoration efforts

Oysters and mangroves are both essential to protecting and restoring Florida’s coastlines that they call home, including defending them against storms. As mangrove populations are increasing due to successful restoration efforts and favorable weather, however, their strong comeback may pose unintended consequences for oysters, according to new research from UCF graduate student Katherine Harris and Pegasus Professor Linda Walters published in the Marine Ecology Progress Series. To protect Florida’s coastlines, the researchers hope their new findings can initiate efforts ...

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Technology1 Aug 2025

AI breakthrough unlocks 'new' materials to replace lithium-ion batteries

Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. In research published in Cell Reports Physical Science, the NJIT team led by Professor Dibakar Datta successfully applied generative AI techniques to rapidly discover new porous materials capable of revolutionizing multivalent-ion batteries. These batteries, using abundant elements like magnesium, calcium, aluminum and zinc, offer a promising, cost-effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries, ...

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Technology1 Aug 2025

Helping me, inhibiting you: Analysis of interactions between intestinal microbiota

Intestinal bacteria are important for human health as they help digest food and regulate immune function. Thus, in recent years, it has become clear that gut microbiota dysbiosis, an imbalance in types and composition of intestinal bacteria, is associated with digestive disorders and other diseases. However, the mechanism by which bacteria interact in the intestine to maintain the microbiota balance remains unclear. A research group led by Associate Professor Koji Hosomi at Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Veterinary Science studied two bacteria: Fusobacterium varium (F. varium), an oral and intestinal bacterium linked to inflammation and colon ...

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Technology31 Jul 2025

Experts call for science- and evidence-based AI policy

In a Policy Forum, Rishi Bommasani et al. argue that successful artificial intelligence (AI) policy must be grounded in solid evidence and scientific understanding rather than hype or political expediency. “AI policymaking should place a premium on evidence: Scientific understanding and systematic analysis should inform policy, and policy should accelerate evidence generation,” write Bommasani et al. Although developing sound AI policy hinges on clearly defining and effectively using credible evidence, the authors ...

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Technology31 Jul 2025

Scientists discover new quantum state at the intersection of exotic materials

Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma – at the interface of two exotic, materials made into a sandwich. The new quantum state, called quantum liquid crystal, appears to follow its own rules and offers characteristics that could pave the way for advanced technological applications, the scientists said. Reporting in the journal Science Advances, a Rutgers-led team of researchers described an experiment that focused on the interaction between a conducting material called the Weyl semimetal and an insulating magnetic material known as spin ice when both ...

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Technology31 Jul 2025

AI at the core: philanthropy fuels EMBL’s strategy

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has long been a pioneer in developing and applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance genomics, structural biology, and drug discovery. One of the standout examples is AlphaFold – developed by Google DeepMind and trained on data provided by EMBL-EBI and collaborators – which has revolutionised protein structure prediction. With EMBL-EBI’s support, AlphaFold2 predictions were made freely available to researchers worldwide. Alongside its major contributions to AI in structural biology, EMBL is also leading the way in applying AI to all types of biological data analysis and scientific research, including ...

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Technology31 Jul 2025

Cyberstalking growing at faster rate than other forms of stalking

Cyberstalking is increasing at a faster rate than traditional stalking and is disproportionately affecting young people, women, and members of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL. The study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, is the first to use nationally representative data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) to examine the prevalence and perception of cyberstalking over an eight-year period (2012–2020). It revealed that while cyberstalking remains less common than physical stalking, the proportion of ...

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Technology30 Jul 2025

AI can fake peer reviews and escape detection, study finds

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be used to write convincing but biased peer reviews that are nearly impossible to distinguish from human writing, a new study reveals. This poses a serious threat to the integrity of scientific publishing, where peer review is the critical process for vetting research quality and accuracy. In a study evaluating the risks of AI in academic publishing, a team of researchers from China tasked the AI model Claude with reviewing 20 real cancer research manuscripts. ...

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Technology30 Jul 2025

GenAI models extract pathological features for lung adenocarcinoma grading and prognosis

Lung adenocarcinoma remains one of the most challenging cancers to diagnose accurately, with pathologists spending countless hours examining tissue samples under microscopes to determine cancer grades and predict patient outcomes. A new study published in the International Journal of Surgery demonstrates how generative artificial intelligence could fundamentally change this process, offering both speed and precision that rivals human expertise. Dr. Anqi Lin and his research team at Southern Medical University's ...

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Technology30 Jul 2025

Stepping for digital rewards

Walking is well known to have significant health benefits, but few people achieve the daily recommended steps. Fortunately, mobile health (mHealth) applications have emerged as promising tools to promote physical activity. These apps track user activities on mobile devices to deliver health and wellness services. However, the effectiveness of these apps in increasing daily walking behavior remains underexplored, partly due to variations in their incentive structures. Dr. Haruka Kato, Junior Associate Professor at Osaka Metropolitan University, investigated the impact of incentive design on walking behavior using a local mHealth application called ...

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Technology29 Jul 2025

Idaho National Laboratory accelerates nuclear energy projects with Amazon Web Services cloud and AI technologies

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will collaborate to use AWS’s advanced capabilities and cloud infrastructure to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools for nuclear energy projects. INL leads the nation in adapting AI for the nuclear energy industry. The laboratory is developing a suite of technologies that use AI to reduce the costs and timeframes of designing, licensing, building and operating nuclear facilities. Ultimately, the tools could be used for safe and reliable autonomous operation of nuclear reactors and accelerating deployment of new advanced reactors. AWS’s advanced computing power and AI foundation ...

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Technology29 Jul 2025

Blending technologies may help coral offspring blossom

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Coral restoration efforts could be dramatically improved with technologies that support the survival and growth of baby corals, suggests a new study. Findings showed that two novel devices, the Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA) and 3D printed artificial settlement modules, could together boost the population of a species of coral native to Hawaii. In a previous study led by researchers at The Ohio State University, scientists found that UZELA successfully attracted nearby zooplankton, microscopic organisms that coral feed on. That study found that the light ...

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Technology29 Jul 2025

Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Brown University researchers will lead an artificial intelligence research institute aimed at developing a new generation of AI assistants capable of trustworthy, sensitive and context-aware interactions with people. Work to develop the advanced assistants is specifically motivated by the potential for use in mental and behavioral health, where trust and safety are of the utmost importance. The AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA) will combine research on ...

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Technology29 Jul 2025

Designing drones that can fly in air ducts

Air ducts: a contemporary issue for safety inspection Air ducts are everywhere in modern buildings and underground networks, but are challenging to access for inspection. Their narrow dimensions and inability to support human weight prevent essential interventions to maintain air quality, heating, and air conditioning. Small quadrotor drones offer a potential solution for exploring these air ducts because they can navigate both horizontal and vertical sections. However, they create airflows that recirculate inside the duct and destabilize the drone, creating important turbulences in an environment that has little space for error. Mapping the aerodynamic forces in a ...

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