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Technology22 Jul 2025

Like humans, AI can jump to conclusions, Mount Sinai study finds

New York, NY [July 22, 2025]—A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models can make surprisingly simple mistakes when faced with complex medical ethics scenarios. The findings, which raise important questions about how and when to rely on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in health care settings, were reported in the July 22 online issue of NPJ Digital Medicine [10.1038/s41746-025-01792-y]. The research team was inspired by Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking, Fast and ...

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Technology22 Jul 2025

CORNETO: Machine learning to decode complex omics data

EMBL-EBI scientists and collaborators at Heidelberg University have developed CORNETO, a new computational tool that uses machine learning to gain meaningful insights from complex biological data. CORNETO enables users to extract molecular networks – maps of how genes, proteins, and signalling pathways interact – by combining experimental data from different samples and conditions with prior biological knowledge, such as signalling or metabolic networks. This can help us to better understand the mechanisms that ...

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Technology21 Jul 2025

Discovering new materials: AI can simulate billions of atoms simultaneously

Imagine the concrete in our homes and bridges not only withstanding the ravages of time and natural disasters like the intense heat of wildfires, but actively self-healing or capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Now, researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a revolutionary AI model that can simulate the behavior of billions of atoms simultaneously, opening new possibilities for materials design and discovery at unprecedented scales. The current state of the world’s climate is a dire one. Brutal droughts, evaporating glaciers, ...

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Technology21 Jul 2025

High-performance near-Infrared computational spectrometer enabled by finely-tuned PbS quantum dots

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for probing molecular compositions and structures non-invasively. However, traditional NIR spectrometers are often bulky and expensive, limiting their applications in portable or resource-constrained settings. A team of researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) has addressed this challenge by developing a miniaturized NIR computational spectrometer using PbS quantum dots (QDs). Their work, published in Nano Research, demonstrates how finely-tuned QDs can achieve a spectral resolution of 1.5 nm, a significant improvement over previous works. Why is this study important? NIR ...

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Technology21 Jul 2025

Metal-free catalysts break through in green H2O2 synthesis! Novel organic semiconductors enable high-efficiency interfacial reactions

Key Point 1: advantages and applications of metal-free organic semiconductor photocatalytic H2O2 production This review comprehensively compares the advantages and limitations of methods for H2O2 production, such as the anthraquinone process, electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, piezoelectrochemical, and photochemical routes. It emphasizes the sustainability and safety of metal-free organic semiconductor photocatalytic H2O2 production, proposing from a unique perspective that developing novel surface reactions constitutes one of the most effective strategies for enhancing photocatalyst ...

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Technology21 Jul 2025

AI vision, reinvented: The power of synthetic data

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels — essential for AI to operate independently in everyday settings — closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude currently set the pace. But no one outside their makers knows how those models were trained or what data they used, leaving open-source alternatives scrambling to catch up. Now, researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) have developed a new approach to train open-source models: using AI to create scientific figures, charts and tables that teach other AI systems ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

Current application status and innovative development of surgical robot

Each year, numerous patients worldwide require surgical interventions that could benefit from the precision and safety offered by surgical robots. The standard approach for complex surgeries often involves traditional open or laparoscopic techniques, which may result in significant patient trauma and longer recovery times. In a study published in the manuscript "Current Application Status and Innovative Development of Surgical Robot," a team of researchers explores a new approach to enhance surgical outcomes through the use of surgical ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

Machine learning reveals historical seismic events in the Yellowstone caldera

Yellowstone, a popular tourist destination and namesake of an equally popular TV show, was the first-ever national park in the United States. And bubbling beneath it – to this day – is one of Earth’s most seismically active networks of volcanic activity. In a new study, published July 18 in the high impact journal Science Advances, Western engineering professor Bing Li and his collaborators at Universidad Industrial de Santander (Industrial University of Santander) in Colombia and the United States Geological Survey used machine learning to re-examine historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone caldera over a 15-year period. The team was able to retroactively detect ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

Idaho National Laboratory to lead advancements in US semiconductor manufacturing

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) – The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has been chosen to serve as the chief digital officer for the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA Institute (SMART USA). This Manufacturing USA Institute, funded by the National Institute for Standards and Technology CHIPS for America program and launched in 2025, is led by Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation. The SMART USA program is partnering with the Department of Energy to tackle the semiconductor industry’s toughest challenges, leveraging the department’s decades-long investments ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

AI-assisted sorting, other new technologies could improve plastic recycling

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters of it ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more efficient? A review article by University at Buffalo researchers summarizes the latest technologies and methods guided by process systems engineering approaches, from chemical solvents that can dissolve specific plastics to automated plastic sorting aided by artificial intelligence. Selected as the cover article ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

New tool gives anyone the ability to train a robot

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Engineers are designing robotic helpers that can “learn from demonstration.” This more natural training strategy enables a person to lead a robot through a task, typically in one of three ways: via remote control, such as operating a joystick to remotely maneuver a robot; by physically moving the robot through the motions; or by performing the task themselves while the robot watches and mimics. Learning-by-doing ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

Common feature between forest fires and neural networks reveals the universal framework underneath

Researchers from the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Aisin Corporation have demonstrated that universal scaling laws, which describe how the properties of a system change with size and scale, apply to deep neural networks that exhibit absorbing phase transition behavior, a phenomenon typically observed in physical systems. The discovery not only provides a framework describing deep neural networks but also helps predict their trainability or generalizability. The findings were published in the journal Physical Review Research. In recent years, it seems no matter where we look, we come across artificial intelligence ...

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Technology18 Jul 2025

IEEE study achieves efficient integration of quantum dot lasers on silicon chiplets

Lasers that are fabricated directly onto silicon photonic chips offer several advantages over external laser sources, such as greater scalability. Furthermore, photonic chips with these “monolithically” integrated lasers can be commercially viable if they can be manufactured in standard semiconductor foundries. III-V semiconductor lasers can be monolithically integrated with photonic chips by directly growing a crystalline layer of laser material, such as indium arsenide, on silicon substrate. However, photonic chips with such integrated laser source are challenging to manufacture due ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Polymer coating extends half life of MXene-based air quality sensor by 200% and enables regeneration

Cleaning products, candles, cribs, and cosmetics are just a few of the common household items that emit formaldehyde, a colorless, odorless chemical that when present in the air at levels higher than 0.1 parts per million has been found to be a risk to human health. To make indoor air quality monitoring more accessible, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a low cost, long-lasting, indoor formaldehyde sensor. A unique polymer coating on the MXene-based sensor not only extends its half life by 200%, but also enables it to regenerate when performance begins to degrade. MXene is a class of compounds that has shown promise in energy storage and gas sensing because ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

UK Government and UK Research and Innovation join forces to launch multi-billion-pound compute roadmap

Quicker health diagnoses, smarter energy supplies, tackling climate change and improved public service delivery – just some huge potential benefits of the new compute roadmap, launched by DSIT and UKRI. The roadmap heralds a significant increase in publicly accessible compute capacity. Investments include up to £2 billion to deliver a holistic and user-centred compute ecosystem with £1 billion to expand the AI Research Resource 20-fold by 2030. It also provides up to £750 million for UKRI to invest in a new national supercomputing service at Edinburgh. UKRI is further ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Increased transparency about how countries use AI to manage migration needed, new study shows

Increased transparency from countries about how they use AI to manage migration is needed to boost trust and strengthen the rule of law, a new study says. Any overuse of AI in migration management may perpetuate biases and errors, promoting excessive reliance on technology and undermining trust in decision‑making processes, an expert has warned. Adequate cybersecurity measures are also needed to protect sensitive data about vulnerable migrants. However, using AI for migrant management could present opportunities such as freeing up caseworkers’ time to focus on other critical areas, ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Public perception of physicians who use AI

About The Study: In line with prior research, the results of this study indicate that the public has certain reservations about the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. While the present effect sizes are relatively small, in particular regarding AI use for administrative purposes, they may be highly relevant as trust in health care practitioners is closely linked to subjective treatment outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Moritz Reis, MSc, email moritz.reis@uni-wuerzburg.de. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.21643) Editor’s ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Older adults and AI: Poll suggests a wary welcome

The artificial intelligence revolution hasn’t passed older adults by, a new poll suggests. But the data show that people over 50 have both curiosity and skepticism about AI, depending on how much they’ve used it, the data show. No matter what their level of experience with AI, nearly all people over 50 (92%) say they want to know when the information they read, see or hear is AI-generated, according to the new findings from the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging. In all, just over half (55%) of people age 50 and older have ever used an AI technology ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Pusan National University researchers explore how generative AI can streamline fashion design

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize fashion design. By recognizing patterns in data and generating new text and images, AI models powered by deep learning algorithms can help fashion designers develop new catalogues, expanding their creativity, with added efficiency, helping to bring products to the market faster. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and AI image generators like DALL-E have already shown promising results for many industries and have popularized the use of AI. In fashion, LLMs can help designers and even non-experts understand past styles and predict future ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Korea University study proposes first toxicity-based exposure limits proposed for indoor airborne fungi

Microbial contaminants like airborne bacteria and fungi can make up more than a third of indoor air pollution. Yet, while many countries regulate chemical pollutants, most have no legally binding thresholds for microbial exposure, particularly fungi. This lack of toxicological benchmarks leaves a major gap in indoor air safety policy. Addressing this gap, a new study led by Professor Wonsuck Yoon of Korea University provides the first species-specific health risk estimates for indoor airborne microbes based on animal toxicity data. This study was made available online on June 9, 2025, and was published on Sep 5, 2025, ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Unveiling the mystery of electron dynamics in the 'quantum tunneling barrier' for the first time

Recently, Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH's Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative and his research team have succeeded in unraveling for the first time the mystery of the 'electron tunneling' process, a core concept in quantum mechanics, and confirmed it through experiments. This study was published in the international journal Physical Review Letters and is attracting attention as a key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of 'electron tunneling,' which has remained unsolved for over 100 years. While the idea of teleporting ...

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Technology17 Jul 2025

Human-AI ‘collaboration’ makes it simpler to solve quantum physics problems

At the forefront of discovery, where cutting-edge scientific questions are tackled, we often don’t have much data. Conversely, successful machine learning (ML) tends to rely on large, high quality data sets for training. So how can researchers harness AI effectively to support their investigations? Published in Physical Review Research, scientists describe an approach for working with ML to tackle complex questions in condensed matter physics. Their method tackles hard problems which were previously unsolvable by physicist simulations or by ML algorithms alone. The researchers ...

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Technology16 Jul 2025

Freshwater fish, too, attracted to artificial root structures

LAWRENCE – As an avid fly fisherman, Keith Van de Riet spends a lot of time trying to think like a fish does. He does likewise in his day job as professor at the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design, having now conducted nearly a dozen experiments seeking to ascertain how fish react to waterfront edges using a variety of underwater seawall panels made to resemble plant roots. Van de Riet is a co-author of a new paper titled “Multi-Species Fish Habitat Preferences for Various Modified Concrete Armouring ...

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Technology16 Jul 2025

NCSA supporting Georgia Tech in new AI venture

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is lending its expertise and institutional supercomputing knowledge to assist Georgia Tech in building and operating a new artificial intelligence-centered supercomputer. Nexus, a next-generation, national-scale computational resource, will integrate cutting-edge heterogeneous hardware, AI-accelerated computing and advanced software services to unify scientific and engineering research workflows for researchers throughout the country. “Hosting Nexus signals that Georgia Tech is ready ...

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Technology16 Jul 2025

Rice University scientists discover way to engineer stronger soft devices through smarter silicone bonding

In a step forward for soft robotics and biomedical devices, Rice University engineers have uncovered a powerful new way to boost the strength and durability of silicone-based soft devices without changing the materials themselves. Their study, published in a special issue of Science Advances, focuses on printed and musculoskeletal robotics and offers a predictive framework that connects silicone curing conditions with adhesion strength, enabling dramatic improvements in performance for both molded and 3D-printed elastomer components. “We found that the extent to which a silicone elastomer is cured ...

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