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February 17, 2026

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Brain Inspired Machines Are Better at Math Than Expected

Feb. 14, 2026 Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The breakthrough could lead to powerful, low-energy ...

Scientists Create Smart Synthetic Skin That Can Hide Images and Change Shape

Feb. 6, 2026 Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

A Clever Quantum Trick Brings Practical Quantum Computers Closer

Feb. 6, 2026 Quantum computers struggle because their qubits are incredibly easy to disrupt, especially during calculations. A new experiment shows how to perform quantum operations while continuously fixing errors, rather than pausing protection to compute. The ...

“Existential Risk” – Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness

Feb. 1, 2026 Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research argues that developing scientific tests ...

How Everyday Foam Reveals the Secret Logic of Artificial Intelligence

Jan. 15, 2026 Foams were once thought to behave like glass, with bubbles frozen in place at the microscopic level. But new simulations reveal that foam bubbles are always shifting, even while the foam keeps its overall shape. Remarkably, this restless motion ...

This AI Spots Dangerous Blood Cells Doctors Often Miss

Jan. 13, 2026 A generative AI system can now analyze blood cells with greater accuracy and confidence than human experts, detecting subtle signs of diseases like leukemia. It not only spots rare abnormalities but also recognizes its own uncertainty, making it a ...

Quantum Structured Light Could Transform Secure Communication and Computing

Jan. 6, 2026 Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a single photon can carry. This leap could make quantum communication more secure, quantum computers more efficient, and sensors ...

Scientists Prove “Impossible” Earth-to-space Quantum Link Is Feasible

Dec. 17, 2025 Researchers have shown that quantum signals can be sent from Earth up to satellites, not just down from space as previously believed. This breakthrough could make global quantum networks far more powerful, affordable, and ...

Scientists Just Teleported Information Using Light

Nov. 29, 2025 Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum internet. By creating nearly identical ...

Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Pixel That Could Put Holograms on Your Smartphone

Sep. 26, 2025 A team at the University of St Andrews has unlocked a major step toward true holographic displays by combining OLEDs with holographic metasurfaces. Unlike traditional laser-based holograms, this ...

Why Tiny Bee Brains Could Hold the Key to Smarter AI

Aug. 24, 2025 Researchers discovered that bees use flight movements to sharpen brain signals, enabling them to recognize patterns with remarkable accuracy. A digital model of their brain shows that this movement-based perception could revolutionize AI and ...

Tiny Quantum Dots Unlock the Future of Unbreakable Encryption

Aug. 23, 2025 By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, showing that secure networks don’t need perfect hardware to outperform today’s best ...

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These Mesmerizing Patterns Are Secretly Solving Hard Problems

Jan. 7, 2026 Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that ...

Ramanujan’s 100-Year-Old Pi Formula Is Still Revealing the Universe

Dec. 16, 2025 Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

Scientists Just Found a Way to Tell If Quantum Computers Are Wrong

Dec. 1, 2025 Researchers unveiled a new technique that validates quantum computer results—especially those from GBS devices—in minutes instead of millennia. Their findings expose unexpected errors in a ...

Too Much Screen Time May Be Hurting Kids’ Hearts

Nov. 1, 2025 More screen time among children and teens is linked to higher risks of heart and metabolic problems, particularly when combined with insufficient sleep. Danish researchers discovered a measurable ...

Quantum Simulations That Once Needed Supercomputers Now Run on Laptops

Oct. 12, 2025 A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer. By expanding the truncated Wigner approximation, they’ve created an ...

AI-Powered Smart Bandage Heals Wounds 25% Faster

Sep. 24, 2025 A new wearable device, a-Heal, combines AI, imaging, and bioelectronics to speed up wound recovery. It continuously monitors wounds, diagnoses healing stages, and applies personalized treatments like ...

Shocking Study Exposes Widespread Math Research Fraud

Sep. 19, 2025 A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The ...

Scientists Discover Forgotten Particle That Could Unlock Quantum Computers

Aug. 23, 2025 Scientists may have uncovered the missing piece of quantum computing by reviving a particle once dismissed as useless. This particle, called the neglecton, could give fragile quantum systems the full ...

Scientists Just Cracked the Cryptographic Code Behind Quantum Supremacy

July 28, 2025 Quantum computing may one day outperform classical machines in solving certain complex problems, but when and how this “quantum advantage” emerges has remained unclear. Now, researchers from ...

A Simple Twist Fooled AI—and Revealed a Dangerous Flaw in Medical Ethics

July 24, 2025 Even the most powerful AI models, including ChatGPT, can make surprisingly basic errors when navigating ethical medical decisions, a new study reveals. Researchers tweaked familiar ethical dilemmas ...

Earlier Headlines

This Flat Chip Uses Twisted Light to Reveal Hidden Images

July 17, 2025 Using advanced metasurfaces, researchers can now twist light to uncover hidden images and detect molecular handedness, potentially revolutionizing data encryption, biosensing, and drug ...

Scientists Just Simulated the “impossible” — Fault-Tolerant Quantum Code Cracked at Last

July 2, 2025 A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built ...

Quantum Computers Just Got an Upgrade – and It’s 10× More Efficient

June 25, 2025 Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum states—key for bigger, better quantum ...

Quantum Dice: Scientists Harness True Randomness from Entangled Photons

June 22, 2025 Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

Scientists Just Took a Big Step Toward the Quantum Internet

June 12, 2025 A team of Danish and German scientists has launched a major project to create new technology that could form the foundation of the future quantum internet. They re using a rare element called erbium ...

Study Deepens Understanding of Cell Migration, Important for Potential Medical Advances

May 28, 2025 A new study integrated mathematical modeling with advanced imaging to discover that the physical shape of the fruit fly egg chamber, combined with chemical signals, significantly influences how cells ...

AI Meets Game Theory: How Language Models Perform in Human-Like Social Scenarios

May 28, 2025 Large language models (LLMs) -- the advanced AI behind tools like ChatGPT -- are increasingly integrated into daily life, assisting with tasks such as writing emails, answering questions, and even ...

In Nature's Math, Freedoms Are Fundamental

May 28, 2025 Scientists have developed a unified theory for mathematical parameters known as gauge freedoms. Their new formulas will allow researchers to interpret research results much faster and with greater ...

The Magic of Light: Dozens of Images Hidden in a Single Screen

May 27, 2025 New technology that uses light's color and spin to display multiple ...

A Faster, More Reliable Method for Simulating the Plasmas Used to Make Computer Chips

May 22, 2025 Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...

AI Is Good at Weather Forecasting. Can It Predict Freak Weather Events?

May 22, 2025 Scientists found that neural networks cannot yet forecast 'gray swan' weather events, which might not appear in existing training data but could still happen -- like 200-year floods or ...

Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People to See in the Dark, Even With Their Eyes Closed

May 22, 2025 Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision ...

Learning as an Adventure: The Lecture Theater in the Spaceship

May 15, 2025 In Project Chimera, a game lab combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating ...

Hexagons for Data Protection: Proof of Location Without Disclosing Personal Data

May 15, 2025 Location data is considered particularly sensitive -- its misuse can have serious consequences. Researchers have now developed a method that allows individuals to cryptographically prove their ...

One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses

May 8, 2025 Augmented-reality (AR) technology is rapidly finding its way into everyday life, from education and healthcare to gaming and entertainment. However, the core AR device remains bulky and heavy, making ...

Is Virtual-Only Couture the New Clothing Craze?

May 7, 2025 As fast fashion continues to fill wardrobes and landfills at a staggering pace, new research suggests that the future of fashion might lie not in fabric, but in ...

Making Virtual Reality More Accessible

May 5, 2025 Researchers have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility ...

Mathematician Solves Algebra's Oldest Problem Using Intriguing New Number Sequences

May 1, 2025 A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to ...

How Math Helps to Protect Crops from Invasive Disease

Apr. 28, 2025 New research demonstrates how mathematical modeling can predict outbreaks of toxic fungi in Texas corn crops -- offering a potential lifeline to farmers facing billions in harvest ...

'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery

Apr. 23, 2025 After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help ...