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Technology30 Jun 2025

BCI robotic hand control reaches new finger-level milestone

BCI robotic hand control reaches new finger-level milestone Robotic systems have the potential to greatly enhance daily living for the over one billion individuals worldwide who experience some form of disability. Brain-computer interfaces or BCIs present a compelling option by enabling direct communication between the brain and external devices, bypassing traditional muscle-based control. While invasive BCIs have demonstrated the ability to control robotic systems with high precision, their reliance on risky surgical ...

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Technology29 Jun 2025

The rise of 'artificial historians': AI as humanity’s record-keeper

In documenting and recording society’s collective data on an unprecedented scale, artificial intelligence is becoming humanity’s historian – changing the way we record information for posterity. But AI’s inadvertent role as memory-keeper raises profound concerns for today’s historians. Unlike human historians who explicitly document their methodologies, AI systems are creating the historical archives of the future without crucial transparency around how sources are selected, weighted, and interpreted. This undermines a fundamental principle of historical scholarship, that methodologies should be visible and contestable. In the new book ...

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Technology27 Jun 2025

Roberto Morandotti wins prestigious IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award

Roberto Morandotti Wins Prestigious IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award Congratulations to Professor Roberto Morandotti, the first researcher at INRS to receive this prestigious award in the field of quantum electronics VARENNES, QC, June 27, 2025 – Professor Roberto Morandotti, a globally recognized leader in quantum optics and photonics at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), has won the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonic Society Quantum Electronics Award. This award pays ...

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Technology27 Jun 2025

How AI is making 2D materials stronger: An AI-driven framework to improve material design

Two-dimensional patterned hollow structures (2D-PHS) are an advanced class of metamaterials known for their unique mechanical properties and lightweight nature. Comprising a solid matrix with periodically arranged hollows, 2D-PHS effectively reduce material weight while optimizing stress and strain distribution to maintain structural integrity and strength. This precise geometric control offers superior tunability in strength-to-weight ratios, deformability, and stretchability compared to traditional solid ...

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Technology27 Jun 2025

Neopred: A dual-phase CT AI tool for preoperative prediction of pathological response in NSCLC

In May 2025, the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer published a pioneering study entitled “NeoPred: dual-phase CT AI forecasts pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy in NSCLC”, led by Professor Jianxing He’s team from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University / National Center for Respiratory Medicine. The study introduces NeoPred, a multimodal artificial intelligence model that combines dual-phase CT scans (pre-treatment and pre-surgery) and clinical features ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

New research aims to better predict and understand cascading land surface hazards

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – When an extreme weather event occurs, the probability or risk of other events can often increase, leading to what researchers call “cascading” hazards. For example, the danger of landslides or debris flows following wildfires in California, recent flash floods in West Virginia or when historic flooding occurred in North Carolina as Hurricane Helene made its way inland. Such occurrences leave lasting imprints on the landscape that can prime the Earth’s surface for subsequent events. As part of a collaboration by dozens of researchers across the country, a new paper published in Science, "Cascading land surface ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

Novel “digital fossil-mining” approach uncovers hidden fossils, revealing squids’ ancient origins

Using an innovative “digital fossil-mining” approach, researchers have uncovered hundreds of previously hidden fossil squid beaks, revealing a record that squids originated and became ecologically dominant roughly 100 million years ago – well before the end-Cretaceous extinction. Squids are the most diverse and globally distributed group of marine cephalopods in the modern ocean, where they play a vital role in ocean ecosystems as both predators and prey. Their evolutionary success is widely considered to be related ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

Optica Quantum June 2025 issue press tip sheet

WASHINGTON—The new issue of Optica Quantum is available. A Gold Open Access journal from Optica Publishing Group, Optica Quantum provides a home for high-impact research in quantum information science and technology enabled by optics and photonics. Summaries of the 10 research articles in the latest issue are provided below. Takuma Nakamura, Dahyeon Lee, Jason Horng, Florent Lecocq, John Teufel, and Franklyn Quinlan, “Cryogenic photonic link using an extended-InGaAs photodiode and short pulse illumination towards high-fidelity drive of superconducting qubits,” Optica Quantum 3, 221-227 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1364/OpticaQ.546795 Optical interconnects ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

$50 million raised for UVA's Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology

UVA Health has received two anonymous $25 million estate gifts to support the University of Virginia’s Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology. The $50 million of additional support for the institute enabled UVA Health to top its $1 billion fundraising goal in UVA’s Honor the Future campaign, which concludes this month. “I’m deeply grateful for the generosity and vision of these donors, whose contributions will help us to realize the full potential of the Manning Institute, and for everyone who has helped UVA Health reach this milestone,” said UVA President Jim Ryan. “These extraordinary gifts will support the Manning Institute’s ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

Researchers show AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk

The use of AI image generation models has not only gained popularity but raised concerns surrounding potential misuse when it comes to training data, including copyright-protected material. Text-to-image models have gained significant popularity due to their ability to generate diverse, realistic-looking images from just a short prompt. As these models are trained on vast datasets from various sources, there is growing concern that artists’ works, including photographs, paintings and other creative pieces, may be used in training without their consent. To protect their work from being exploited by emerging technologies, artists have turned ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

Artificial intelligence in miniature format for small devices

Artificial intelligence is considered to be computationally and energy-intensive – a challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), where small, embedded sensors have to make do with limited computing power, little memory and small batteries. In the E-MINDS project, a research team from the COMET K1 centre Pro2Future, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the University of St. Gallen has found ways to run AI locally and efficiently on the smallest devices – without having to rely on external computing power. For example, it has been possible to run specialised AI models on an ultra-wideband localisation device ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

EPFL scientists build first self-illuminating biosensor

Optical biosensors use light waves as a probe to detect molecules, and are essential for precise medical diagnostics, personalized medicine, and environmental monitoring. Their performance is dramatically enhanced if they can focus light waves down to the nanometer scale – small enough to detect proteins or amino acids, for example – using nanophotonic structures that ‘squeeze’ light at the surface of a tiny chip. But the generation and detection of light for these nanophotonic biosensors requires ...

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Technology26 Jun 2025

Estimating microbial biomass from air-dried soils: A safer, scalable approach

Niigata, Japan— In a remarkable advancement for soil science, researchers from Japan have developed a novel method for estimating microbial biomass using water-extractable organic matter (WEOM) from air-dried soils. This innovative approach not only simplifies the estimation process but also eliminates the need for toxic solvents typically used in traditional methods, such as chloroform fumigation extraction. A research was conducted by a dedicated team from Niigata University, Kyushu University, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences researchers. The study analyzed 50 soil samples from ten diverse profiles across various regions in Japan, including six ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

UC Davis and Proteus Space to launch first-ever dynamic digital twin into space

The Center for Space Exploration Research at the University of California, Davis, has partnered with Proteus Space to launch a US government-sponsored satellite into space with a custom AI-enabled payload in a brand-new, first-ever rapid design-to-deployment small satellite. The team will launch the satellite and payload in October 2025 from Vanderberg, CA. From the time the project was fully approved, the design and launch will occur within an unprecedented 13 months. (The normal pace for small satellites is often measured in years.) The UC Davis-designed ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Terasaki Institute’s Dr. Yangzhi Zhu recognized as 2024 Biosensors Young Investigator Award Recipient

Los Angeles, CA – June 25, 2025 - The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) is proud to announce that Dr. Yangzhi Zhu, Assistant Professor at TIBI, has been honored with the 2024 Biosensors Young Investigator Award. This prestigious award recognizes early-career researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of biosensors. All nominations were evaluated by a distinguished committee led by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Giovanna Marrazza. Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on the development of flexible biosensors and wearable bioelectronics for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. His lab leads interdisciplinary efforts ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

NAU researchers launch open-source robotic exoskeleton to help people walk

Imagine a future in which people with disabilities can walk on their own, thanks to robotic legs. A new project from Northern Arizona University is accelerating that future with an open-source robotic exoskeleton. Right now, developing these complex electromechanical systems is expensive and time-consuming, which likely stops a lot of research before it ever starts. But that may soon change: Years of research from NAU associate professor Zach Lerner’s Biomechatronics Lab has led to the first comprehensive open-source exoskeleton framework, made freely available to anyone worldwide. It will help overcome several huge obstacles for potential ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Computational trick enables better understanding of exotic state of matter

It can be found inside gas giants such as Jupiter and is briefly created during meteorite impacts or in laser fusion experiments: warm dense matter. This exotic state of matter combines features of solid, liquid and gaseous phases. Until now, simulating warm dense matter accurately has been considered a major challenge. An international team led by researchers from the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has succeeded in describing this state of matter much more accurately than before using a new computational method. The approach ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Control of spin qubits at near absolute zero a game changer for quantum computers

Developing technology that allows quantum information to be both stable and accessible is a critical challenge in the development of useful quantum computers that operate at scale. Research published today in the prestigious journal Nature provides a pathway for scaling the number of quantum transistors (known as qubits) on a chip from current numbers under 100 to the millions needed to make quantum computation a practical reality. The result is enabled by new cryogenic control electronics, that operate at close to absolute zero, developed at The University of Sydney. Lead researcher Professor David Reilly ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

New global index aims to help people and nature thrive together

EMBARGOED UNTIL JUNE 25TH 16:00 UK TIME New Global Index Aims to Help People and Nature Thrive Together Researchers at Oxford University join the United Nations Development Programme to propose an optimistic, practical approach to inspire stronger action on nature. Oxford, 25 June 2025 — As the world faces an escalating planetary crisis, a new paper published today in Nature offers something we don’t often hear - hope. Rather than focussing on what we’re doing wrong, the paper proposes a bold new way forward; a global framework that measures how well people and nature are thriving together. The ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Thin-film research enters new era with innovative AI approach

Berlin, 25 June 2025 – The Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in Berlin has announced a collaboration with scientific technology company Bizmuth MBE Ltd. to integrate intelligent automation into the growth of semiconductor materials. The six-month partnership, running from June to December 2025, is one of the first initiatives in Europe to apply large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI to the autonomous control of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). MBE is a well-established method for producing tailored atomically precise ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Smart amplifier enabler for more qubits in future quantum computers

Quantum computers can solve extraordinarily complex problems, unlocking new possibilities in fields such as drug development, encryption, AI, and logistics. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a highly efficient amplifier that activates only when reading information from qubits. Thanks to its smart design, it consumes just one-tenth of the power consumed by the best amplifiers available today. This reduces qubit decoherence and lays the foundation for more powerful quantum computers with significantly more qubits and enhanced performance. Bits, which are the building blocks ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Boson sampling finds first practical applications in quantum AI

For over a decade, researchers have considered boson sampling—a quantum computing protocol involving light particles—as a key milestone toward demonstrating the advantage of quantum methods over classical computing. But while previous experiments showed that boson sampling is hard to simulate with classical computers, practical uses have remained out of reach. Now, in Optica Quantum, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) present the first practical application of boson sampling for image recognition, a vital task across many fields, from forensic science to medical diagnostics. Their approach uses just three ...

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Technology25 Jun 2025

Add a twist to π-molecules! A new design strategy for organic semiconductor materials

summary A research team led by Associate Professor Yasushi Segawa, graduate students Mai Nagase (at the time of the research) and Rui Yoshida, and technical staff member Sachiko Nakano of the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) and SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), together with Associate Professor Takashi Hirose of Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research, has synthesized three-dimensionally shaped molecules containing an internal twist and shown that they possess the properties of organic semiconductors. By introducing methyl groups into a planar molecule containing several thiophene units and forcing it into a twisted conformation, ...

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Technology24 Jun 2025

AI innovation at UBC Okanagan helps shipping ports see what’s coming—literally

A UBC Okanagan research team has developed an innovative artificial intelligence system that can accurately predict where ships are heading and arriving, potentially helping Canadian ports better prepare for incoming vessels and respond more efficiently to global supply chain disruptions. Dr. Zheng Liu, a Professor with UBCO’s School of Engineering, and doctoral student Chengkai Zhang have created TrajReducer, a framework that increases prediction accuracy and computational efficiency by analyzing ship trajectories through advanced spatial clustering and cross-dimensional metadata ranking. The ...

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Technology24 Jun 2025

US$53,000 essay competition asks: "How Quantum is Life?"

In 1944, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his book What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, an early landmark in an ongoing—if sometimes controversial—conversation between quantum mechanics, the weird theory that governs the microrealm, and biology. Schrödinger is one of the founding figures of quantum mechanics, having postulated his now-famed quantum equation, a century ago, in 1925. In honor of the discovery of quantum mechanics, this year has been proclaimed the International Year of Quantum Science ...

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