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Technology11 Jul 2025

Groundbreaking quantum study puts wave-particle duality to work

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre world in which an object can act like both waves and particles, and behave differently depending on whether it is being watched. In recent decades, researchers exploring this wave-particle duality have learned to measure the relative “wave-ness” and “particle-ness” of quantum objects, helping to explain how and when they veer between wave-like or particle-like behaviors. Now, in a paper ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

Unveiling the spatiotemporal landscape of Ganoderma lingzhi: insights into ganoderic acid distribution and biosynthesis

A recent study published in Engineering has provided new insights into the spatiotemporal distribution and biosynthesis of ganoderic acids (GAs) in Ganoderma lingzhi (G. lingzhi), a mushroom renowned for its medicinal properties in traditional Chinese medicine. The research, led by scientists from Northeast Forestry University, China, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and the University of Macau, utilized a multi-omics approach to map the distribution of GAs and elucidate their biosynthetic pathways. G. lingzhi, often referred to as the “mushroom of immortality,” has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. It contains various bioactive substances, ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

PolyU-led research reveals that sensory and motor inputs help large language models represent complex concepts

Can one truly understand what “flower” means without smelling a rose, touching a daisy or walking through a field of wildflowers? This question is at the core of a rich debate in philosophy and cognitive science. While embodied cognition theorists argue that physical, sensory experience is essential to concept formation, studies of the rapidly evolving large language models (LLMs)suggest that language alone can build deep, meaningful representations of the world. By exploring the similarities between LLMs and human representations, researchers at The Hong ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

A multimodal amphibious robot driven by soft electrohydraulic flippers

The key component of this robot is the soft electrohydraulic actuator. “Unlike traditional rigid robots, soft robots have better environmental adaptability and safety, and electrohydraulic actuation technology is one of the breakthroughs in the field of soft robots in recent years. It has higher energy efficiency and less noise,” said Fuyi Fang, a researcher at School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The soft electrohydraulic actuator is a sealed pouch filled with silicone ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

Automatized vocabulary knowledge in predicting speech fluency

When learning a second language (L2), many are likely familiar with the challenge of memorizing vocabulary, only to struggle with recalling and using it fluently in speech. Studies have found that speaking fluently in L2 depends not only on knowing what words mean but also on how quickly and automatically you can access and use them appropriately in contexts. This ability to retrieve contextually appropriate word meanings without conscious effort is known as automatized vocabulary knowledge (AVK). In a new study, a team of researchers led by Mr. Kotaro Takizawa from Waseda University, Japan, along with Prof. Kazuya Saito and Dr. ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

New report shows China dominates in AI research – and is western world’s leading collaborator on AI

China is outstripping the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when AI is becoming a “strategic asset” akin to energy or military capability, according to a new report released today by research technology company Digital Science. The report – entitled DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s ascent to research pre-eminence in AI – has been authored by Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook based on data from Dimensions, the world’s largest and most comprehensive database describing the global research ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

New breakthrough method to protect quantum spins from noise

Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing reliable quantum technologies. By shining a single, carefully tuned laser beam on a gas of atoms, they managed to keep the atoms' internal spins synchronized, dramatically reducing the rate at which information is lost. In quantum sensors and memory systems, atoms often lose their magnetic orientation—or "spin"—when they collide with each other or the walls of their ...

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Technology10 Jul 2025

New AI-powered model accurately predicts lung motion with minimal radiation

A research team led by Prof. LI Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a new model that can accurately predict lung motion caused by breathing, offering safer and more precise options for lung biopsies and radiotherapy. The findings were published in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. Lung motion during breathing poses a significant challenge in lung cancer treatment, as tumors can shift, making it difficult for doctors to target them ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

Banking on AI while committed to net zero is ‘magical thinking’, claims report on energy costs of big tech

By 2040, the energy demands of the tech industry could be up to 25 times higher than today, with unchecked growth of data centres driven by AI expected to create surges in electricity consumption that will strain power grids and accelerate carbon emissions. This is according to a new report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, which suggests that even the most conservative estimate for big tech’s energy needs will see a five-fold increase over the next 15 years. The idea that ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

Buck Institute awarded DARPA contract to pioneer next-gen AI modeling platform

The Buck Institute for Research on Aging has secured a significant contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to spearhead the Simulation and Inference of Microbial Behavior and Adaptation (SIMBA) project. In collaboration with DARPA's Simulating Microbial Systems (SMS) Program, this initiative will develop a cloud-based platform integrating multi-dimensional, multi-omic data to simulate the dynamic behavior of microbial cells. Dr. James Yurkovich, Research Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute and Principal Investigator of the SIMBA Team, stated, ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

AI tool helps improve detection of cardiac amyloidosis

In a new study published in the European Heart Journal, researchers reported the successful development and validation of a medical artificial intelligence (AI) model that screens for cardiac amyloidosis, a progressive and irreversible type of heart disease. The results showed that the AI tool is highly accurate, outperforming existing methods and potentially enabling earlier, more accurate diagnoses so patients can benefit from getting the right treatment sooner. What is cardiac amyloidosis? Cardiac amyloidosis is a heart condition in which abnormal proteins ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

The robot will see you now

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get cancelled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a perspective piece out July 9 in Science Robotics. Why? Today’s surgical robots are costly pieces of equipment designed for specialized tasks and can only be operated by highly trained physicians. However, this model doesn’t scale. Despite the drastic improvements in artificial intelligence and autonomy for industrial and humanoid robots in the past year, these improvements haven’t ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

Twist to the M-ax(is): New twist platform opens path to quantum simulation of more exotic states of matter

Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating entirely new phases of matter through simple geometric manipulation. The term "moiré" may sound familiar—it describes the strange rippling patterns you sometimes see when photographing striped shirts or screens; in physics, the same underlying principle applies at the atomic scale. Imagine taking two atomically thin sheets of either the same or different materials, stacking them up together, and rotating one layer slightly relative ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

More rural, minoritized people get amputations – AI gets closer to why

Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses AI to solve the mystery, finding an unaccounted-for factor that researchers think points to implicit bias in the clinical decision-making process. “The AI model allowed us to distinguish among the many reasons behind these much higher rates of amputation among certain groups of people with vascular disease,” said Paula Strassle, ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

Are sewage spills and coastal winds contributing to airborne microplastics?

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the world’s coastal towns and cities, a new study suggests. Scientists analysed existing records on two years of combined sewer overflows into Plymouth Sound, alongside same-day and long-term meteorological and satellite data to assess how often conditions for aerosolisation (the transfer of particles from water to air) occurred. They found that on 178 days within the two-year period, ...

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Technology9 Jul 2025

New artificial intelligence–based test detects early signs of osteoporosis from X-ray images

Investigators have developed an artificial intelligence-assisted diagnostic system that can estimate bone mineral density in both the lumbar spine and the femur of the upper leg, based on X-ray images. The advance is described in a study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. A total of 1,454 X-ray images were analyzed using the scientists’ system. Performance rates for the lumbar and femur of patients with bone density loss, or osteopenia, were 86.4% and 84.1%, respectively, in terms of sensitivity. The respective specificities were 80.4% and 76.3%. (Sensitivity reflected the ability of the test to correctly identify people with ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

Artificial solar eclipses in space could shed light on Sun

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our Sun much quicker than if they had to wait for the celestial show on Earth. The plan, part of a UK-led space mission to be unveiled at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2025 in Durham, would involve the use of a mini-satellite and the Moon's shadow to achieve the closest-ever views of the Sun's atmosphere. The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM) proposes a novel way to study the inner solar corona – the innermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, which ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

Stoichiometric crystal shows promise in quantum memory

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in various matter systems. These techniques allow for the controlled and reversible mapping of light particles called photons onto long-lived states of matter. But storing light for long periods without compromising its retrieval efficiency is a difficult task. In recent years, rare earth atoms in solid materials at cryogenic temperatures have shown to be promising for quantum memory. ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

Turning quantum bottlenecks into breakthroughs

Quantum computers have operated under a significant limitation: they can run only one program at a time. These million-dollar machines demand exclusive use even for the smallest tasks, leaving much of their expensive and fast-running hardware idle and forcing researchers to endure long queues. Columbia Engineering researchers have developed HyperQ, a novel system that enables multiple users to share a single quantum computer simultaneously through isolated quantum virtual machines (qVMs). This key development brings quantum computing closer to real-world usability—more practical, ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

World’s first: Lithuanian scientists’ discovery may transform OLED technology and explosives detection

In modern devices, such as phone screens or advanced sensors, light is often generated by pairs of organic molecules, where one molecule, known as the donor, transmits electrons, and the other, referred to as the acceptor, receives them. An international team of scientists from Kaunas University of Technology, KTU, Lithuania, has, for the first time, observed the luminescence of an excited complex formed by two donor molecules. This discovery opens new possibilities for developing simpler, more efficient, and more sustainable optoelectronic devices. “Until now, such interactions were considered practically impossible. This discovery challenges the fundamental principles we have used ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

Itani studying translation potential of secure & efficient software updates in industrial internet of things architectures

Itani Studying Translation Potential Of Secure & Efficient Software Updates In Industrial Internet of Things Architectures Wassim Itani, Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “I-Corps: Translation Potential of Secure and Efficient Software Updates in Industrial Internet of Things Architectures (IIoT).” He is addressing several critical challenges, including limited computing and network resources of IIoT devices, lack of operational and security standards, absence of a cryptographic root of trust, unique operational requirements of IIoT ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

Quantum battery device lasts much longer than previous demonstrations

Researchers from RMIT University and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have unveiled a method to significantly extend the lifetime of quantum batteries – 1,000 times longer than previous demonstrations. A quantum battery is a theoretical concept that emerged from research in quantum science and technology. Unlike traditional batteries, which rely on chemical reactions, quantum batteries use quantum superposition and interactions between electrons and light to achieve faster charging times and potentially enhanced storage capacity. In ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

AI helps radiologists spot more lesions in mammograms

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI) improves breast cancer detection accuracy for radiologists when reading screening mammograms, helping them devote more of their attention to suspicious areas, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Previous research has shown that AI for decision support improves radiologist performance by increasing sensitivity for cancer detection without extending reading time. However, the impact of AI on radiologists’ visual search patterns remains underexplored. To learn more, researchers used an eye ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

New research shows AI chatbots should not replace your therapist

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (07/08/2025) — Should AI chatbots replace your therapist? New research says “no.” The new study exposes the dangerous flaws in using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health support. For the first time, the researchers evaluated these AI systems against clinical standards for therapists. The research, recently published and presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), was a multi-disciplinary collaboration including researchers at the Stanford Institute for ...

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Technology8 Jul 2025

New quantum record: Transmon qubit coherence reaches millisecond threshold

On July 8, 2025, physicists from Aalto University in Finland published a transmon qubit coherence dramatically surpassing previous scientifically published records. The millisecond coherence measurement marks a quantum leap in computational technology, with the previous maximum echo coherence measurements approaching 0.6 milliseconds. Longer qubit coherence allows for an extended window of time in which quantum computers can execute error-free operations, enabling more complex quantum computations and more quantum logic operations before errors occur. Not only does this allow for more calculations with noisy quantum computers, but it also decreases the resources needed for ...

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