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Technology7 Jul 2025

Study demonstrates low-cost method to remove CO₂ from air using cold temperatures, common materials

Researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) have developed a promising approach for removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to help mitigate global warming. While promising technologies for direct air capture (DAC) have emerged over the past decade, high capital and energy costs have hindered DAC implementation. However, in a new study published in Energy & Environmental Science, the research team demonstrated techniques for capturing CO₂ more efficiently and affordably using extremely cold air and widely available porous sorbent materials, expanding future ...

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Technology7 Jul 2025

At the computer for the lecture or in the lecture hall? It depends!

During the coronavirus pandemic, german universities had to act quickly: Lectures and seminars had to be offered online via Zoom. After the pandemic-related lockdowns, many lecturers introduced synchronous hybrid teaching/learning settings. These are courses in which students can take part either on site in the seminar room or online at the same time. Students are therefore faced with the decision every session as to whether they want to take part in the course online or on site. Three researchers from the Professorship of Adult Education/Continuing Education at the Institute of Education at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) have investigated the factors ...

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Technology7 Jul 2025

A general framework for airfoil flow field reconstruction based on transformer-guided diffusion models

High-resolution flow field data are essential for accurately evaluating the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. However, acquiring such data via large-scale numerical simulations or wind tunnel experiments is highly resource-intensive. Flow field super-resolution techniques aim to reconstruct high-resolution information from low-resolution data, significantly improving data acquisition efficiency. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, especially deep learning, neural network-based super-resolution methods have been widely adopted for flow field reconstruction. Nonetheless, these ...

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Technology7 Jul 2025

A rapidly structured aircraft concept design method based on generative artificial intelligence

The conceptual design stage is a key step in aircraft development, laying the foundation for performance, efficiency and innovation. Traditionally, this process relies heavily on experienced designers to iterate designs based on design theory, design experience, and engineering calculations, which places high demands on designers' design experience and professional skills. With the continuous improvement of aircraft design requirements and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, it is necessary to explore new conceptual design methods to free designers from a large amount of low-value, highly repetitive, and experience-dependent ...

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Technology7 Jul 2025

From position to meaning: how AI learns to read

The language capabilities of today’s artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that of a human being. Yet we still know very little about the internal processes in these networks that lead to such remarkable results. A new study published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT) reveals a piece of this mystery. It shows that when small amounts of data are used for training, neural networks initially rely on the position of words in a ...

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Technology4 Jul 2025

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties. A fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Their system utilizes a robotic probe to measure an important electrical property known as photoconductivity, which is how electrically responsive ...

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Technology4 Jul 2025

Using lightning to make ammonia out of thin air

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of generating ammonia – one of the world’s most important chemicals. Ammonia is also the main ingredient of fertilisers that account for almost half of all global food production. The team have successfully developed a more straightforward method to produce ammonia (NH3) in gas form. Previous efforts by other laboratories produced ammonia in a solution (ammonium, NH4+), which requires more energy and processes to transform it into the final gas product. The current method to generate ammonia, the Haber-Bosch process, comes at great ...

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Technology4 Jul 2025

Machine learning potential-driven insights into pH-dependent CO₂ reduction

Some of the most encouraging results for reaction-enhancing catalysts come from one material in particular: tin (Sn). While Sn's overall utility as a catalyst is well-known, its underlying structure-performance relationship is poorly understood, which limits our ability to maximize its potential. To address this knowledge gap, researchers at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) used machine learning to characterize Sn catalyst activity. The highly accurate simulations could be a game-changer that helps researchers swiftly and simply ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

How game-play with robots can bring out their human side

The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. It may sound like a scene from Blade Runner, but psychologists have been investigating exactly what makes robot interactions feel more human. A new paper published today reveals that playing games with robots to ‘break the ice’ can help bring out their human side. The research team say that the implications are significant for the future of robotics. As robots take on roles from care-giving to customer service, designing interactions that promote social engagement ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

Flexible, eco-friendly electronic plastic for wearable tech, sensors

CLEVELAND—Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an environmentally safer type of plastic that can be used for wearable electronics, sensors and other electrical applications. The material, a so-called ferroelectric polymer, is made without fluorine, considered a “forever” chemical that hurts the environment because compounds made with it don’t break down quickly or at all. Although the researchers are still working to improve the material’s electric and elastic properties, the potential is vast for its flexibility of electronic uses and eco-friendly structure. “How this material ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

A breakthrough in motor safety: AI-powered warning system enhances capability to uncover hidden winding faults

Enhanced diagnostic method of the ITSC fault The study, led by Dr. Wentao Huang, overcame a critical gap in five-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) diagnostics: conventional methods fail to assess inter-turn short-circuit (ITSC) severity. The method integrates two technologies: a real-time tracker that diagnoses faults, and an AI analyzer that processes signals to quantify damage while estimating short-circuit parameters. Overcoming the Blind Spot For years, the challenge of quantifying inter-turn short-circuit severity in operating motors has stumped engineers, as traditional methods struggled ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

AI sharpens pathologists' interpretation of tissue samples

Pathologists' examinations of tissue samples from skin cancer tumours improved when they were assisted by an AI tool. The assessments became more consistent and patients' prognoses were described more accurately. This is shown by a study led by Karolinska Institutet, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Yale University. It is already known that tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are an important biomarker in several cancers, including malignant melanoma (skin cancer). TILs are immune cells found in or near the tumour, where they influence the body's response to the cancer. In ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

Social outcomes among adults with hearing aids and cochlear implants

About The Study: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, hearing rehabilitative devices were associated with improved social outcomes for adults with hearing loss. Their use should be encouraged for those with hearing loss to potentially enhance social engagement and functional outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Janet S. Choi, MD, MPH, email janet.choi@med.usc.edu. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ (doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2025.1777) Editor’s Note: Please see the article for additional information, including ...

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Technology3 Jul 2025

Enhancing the “feel-good” factor of urban vegetation using AI and street view images

Osaka, Japan – The benefits of urban green spaces in cities, in terms of ecological sustainability, climate modification, and human well-being, have been known for decades. More recently, additional economic and restorative payoffs from diverse and colorful plantings have been recognized. Now, a research team from Japan has developed a new method to identify vegetation color, structure, and seasonal changes in urban settings. In a study published in Landscape Ecology, researchers at The University of Osaka reveal an innovative approach to capture seasonal changes in urban plant species. This method combines artificial intelligence ...

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Technology2 Jul 2025

Quantum leap in precision sensing across technologies

Quantum sensing: Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more accurate sensing in a variety of technologies, including biomedical diagnostics. The potential range of technologies is large, stretching from the largest scales – detecting gravitational waves in space over environmental monitoring to the tiny fluctuations in our own bodies – biomedical sensing for imaging and diagnostics in e.g. magnetic scanners. The result is now published in Nature. Quantum limit – this is where it gets really tricky Optical sensing ...

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Technology2 Jul 2025

AI that thinks like us – and could help explain how we think

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have developed an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human behavior with remarkable accuracy. The language model, called Centaur, was trained on more than ten million decisions from psychological experiments – and makes decisions in ways that closely resemble those of real people. This opens new avenues for understanding human cognition and improving psychological theories. For decades, psychology has aspired to explain the full complexity of human thought. Yet traditional models could either offer a transparent ...

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Technology2 Jul 2025

World-unique method enables simulation of error-correctable quantum computers

Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the arising computational errors. To develop truly reliable quantum computers, researchers must be able to simulate quantum computations using conventional computers to verify their correctness – a vital yet extraordinarily difficult task. Now, in a world-first, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the University of Milan, the University of Granada, and the University of Tokyo have unveiled a method for simulating ...

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Technology2 Jul 2025

New search tool brings 21% better accuracy for robotics developers

Imagine you are on a treasure hunt in a vast library with no catalog—typing random words into a search bar and hoping to stumble upon the exact book you need. That has been the reality for many roboticists trying to find the right ROS (Robot Operating System) package. With over 7,500 options available, keyword searches often return irrelevant results, wasting developers’ precious time and energy. Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology and Zhejiang University have developed a more efficient method for searching. Instead of relying on simple word matching, their new tool uses a “knowledge ...

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Technology2 Jul 2025

FPGA-accelerated AI for demultiplexing multimode fiber towards next-generation communications

With the exponential growth of global data traffic driven by AI, big-data analytics, and cloud computing, today’s single-mode fiber (SMF) networks are edging toward their Shannon-capacity limits. Space-division multiplexing (SDM) in multimode fiber (MMF) has emerged as a leading candidate for the next-generation bandwidth breakthrough because a single MMF can carry many orthogonal transverse modes in parallel. However, random mode coupling during propagation mixes these modes into complex speckle patterns, severely complicating signal recovery. Although conventional digital signal ...

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Technology1 Jul 2025

This puzzle game shows kids how they’re smarter than AI

While the current generation of artificial intelligence chatbots still flub basic facts, the systems answer with such confidence that they’re often more persuasive than humans. Adults, even those such as lawyers with deep domain knowledge, still regularly fall for this. But spotting errors in text is especially difficult for children, since they often don’t have the contextual knowledge to sniff out falsehoods. University of Washington researchers developed the game AI Puzzlers to show kids an area where AI systems still typically and blatantly ...

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Technology1 Jul 2025

Robotic eyes mimic human vision for superfast response to extreme lighting

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2025 — In blinding bright light or pitch-black dark, our eyes can adjust to extreme lighting conditions within a few minutes. The human vision system, including the eyes, neurons, and brain, can also learn and memorize settings to adapt faster the next time we encounter similar lighting challenges. In an article published this week in Applied Physics Letters, by AIP Publishing, researchers at Fuzhou University in China created a machine vision sensor that uses quantum dots to adapt to extreme changes in light far faster than the human eye can ...

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Technology1 Jul 2025

SwRI, UTSA selected by NASA to test electrolyzer technology aboard parabolic flight

SAN ANTONIO — July 1, 2025 —Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will receive a $500,000 award from NASA’s TechLeap Prize program to flight test novel electrolyzer technology designed to improve the production of propellants and life-support compounds on the Moon, Mars or near-Earth asteroids. The project, known as the Mars Atmospheric Reactor for Synthesis of Consumables (MARS-C), is led by SwRI’s Kevin Supak and Dr. Eugene Hoffman and UTSA’s Dr. Shrihari “Shri” Sankarasubramanian. TechLeap prizes are designed to support future missions by advancing transformative solutions that address NASA’s ...

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Technology1 Jul 2025

Developed an AI-based classification system for facial pigmented lesions

A research team led by Haruyo Yamamoto, Chisa Nakashima, and Atsushi Otsuka from Department of Dermatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering at Kindai University and other institutions, has developed a diagnostic system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately identify the type of facial pigmented lesions and support laser treatment decisions. A paper on this study was published online in Cureus, an international medical journal on June 5, 2025. 1. Key Points Demonstrated superior diagnostic accuracy compared to dermatologists, when identifying ...

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Technology30 Jun 2025

Why Human empathy still matters in the age of AI

A new study finds that people value empathy more when they believe it comes from a human—even if the actual response was generated by AI. Across nine studies involving over 6,000 participants, the research reveals that human-attributed responses are perceived as more supportive, more emotionally resonant, and more caring than identical AI-generated responses. A new international study led by Prof Anat Perry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD student – Matan Rubin, in collaboration with Prof. Amit Goldenberg researchers from Harvard University and Prof. Desmond C. Ong from the University of Texas, finds that people place greater emotional value on empathy ...

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Technology30 Jun 2025

AI for Good Global Summit 2025 - Exclusive press tour (ITU/United Nations)

The United Nations' digital tech agency, ITU, invites reporters to an exclusive press tour on Monday, 7 July, before the official opening of the AI for Good Global Summit 2025. With the rapid advance of artificial intelligence – from autonomous AI agents to brain-machine interfaces, self-driving vehicles, and a growing range of quantum technologies – AI for Good highlights global AI action to safeguard the future.​ AI for Good will feature talks from AI leaders and 100+ demos showcasing AI innovations to deliver ...

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