Bizarre Things: Computers & Math
October 26, 2025
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Oct. 22, 2025 — A wireless eye implant developed at Stanford Medicine has restored reading ability to people with advanced macular degeneration. The PRIMA chip works with smart glasses to replace lost photoreceptors using infrared light. Most trial participants ...
Oct. 11, 2025 — A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by compression or twisting. By adding a ...
Oct. 8, 2025 — Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional conceptual space — equivalent to having seven senses. ...
Sep. 27, 2025 — Researchers have discovered an unusual "quantum echo" in superconducting materials, dubbed the Higgs echo. This phenomenon arises from the interplay between Higgs modes and quasiparticles, producing distinctive signals unlike conventional echoes. By ...
Sep. 23, 2025 — AI-powered analysis of routine blood tests can reveal hidden patterns that predict recovery and survival after spinal cord injuries. This breakthrough could make life-saving predictions affordable and accessible in hospitals ...
Sep. 18, 2025 — Using laser light instead of traditional mechanics, researchers have built micro-gears that can spin, shift direction, and even power tiny machines. These breakthroughs could soon lead to revolutionary medical tools working at the scale of ...
Sep. 7, 2025 — Artificial intelligence is reshaping law, ethics, and society at a speed that threatens fundamental human dignity. Dr. Maria Randazzo of Charles Darwin University warns that current regulation fails to protect rights such as privacy, autonomy, and ...
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 ...
Aug. 12, 2025 — AI is now a routine part of workplace communication, with most professionals using tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. A study of over 1,000 professionals shows that while AI makes managers’ messages more polished, heavy reliance can damage trust. ...
July 31, 2025 — Stepping into a virtual forest or waterfall scene through VR could be the future of pain management. A new study shows that immersive virtual nature dramatically reduces pain sensitivity almost as ...
July 28, 2025 — Deep in Serbia's Jadar Valley, scientists discovered a mineral with an uncanny resemblance to Superman's Kryptonite both in composition and name. Dubbed jadarite, this dull white crystal lacks the ...
July 8, 2025 — Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent of water flashing into steam. By revealing ...
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Oct. 26, 2025 — Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from ...
Oct. 26, 2025 — Scientists have found that mushrooms can act as organic memory devices, mimicking neural activity while consuming minimal power. The Ohio State team grew and trained shiitake fungi to perform like ...
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 ...
July 25, 2025 — AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, ...
June 23, 2025 — Despite widespread fears, early research suggests AI might actually be improving some aspects of work life. A major new study examining 20 years of worker data in Germany found no signs that AI ...
June 23, 2025 — Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a ...
June 22, 2025 — AI is revolutionizing the job landscape, prompting nations worldwide to prepare their workforces for dramatic changes. A University of Georgia study ...
June 19, 2025 — AI researchers in Switzerland have found a way to dramatically cut cement s carbon footprint by redesigning its recipe. Their system simulates thousands of ingredient combinations, pinpointing those ...
June 19, 2025 — Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions. Emissions, however, depend on the model, the subject matter, and the user. ...
June 17, 2025 — Researchers have created a revolutionary robotic skin that brings machines closer to human-like touch. Made from a flexible, low-cost gel material, ...
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June 8, 2025 — In a world where over a billion smartphones are produced yearly, a team of researchers is flipping the script on electronic waste. Instead of tossing out older phones, they ve demonstrated a ...
May 29, 2025 — Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The significant breakthrough means that, for the ...
May 29, 2025 — Researchers gave participants face tattoos that can track when their brain is working too hard. The study introduces a non-permanent wireless forehead e-tattoo that decodes brainwaves to measure ...
May 28, 2025 — Engineers have developed a real-life Transformer that has the 'brains' to morph in midair, allowing the drone-like robot to smoothly roll away and begin its ground operations without pause. ...
May 28, 2025 — A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at high ...
May 28, 2025 — A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with ...
May 27, 2025 — New technology that uses light's color and spin to display multiple ...
May 27, 2025 — When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important -- but so are less obvious characteristics like feelings of excitement or pleasure ...
May 23, 2025 — A new experiment encodes quantum information in the motion of the atoms and creates a state known as hyper-entanglement, in which two or more traits are linked among a pair of ...
May 22, 2025 — Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- including ChatGPT -- to the test using emotional ...
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 ...
May 21, 2025 — A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The development thus opens ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously -- ...
May 19, 2025 — Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans ...
May 16, 2025 — Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time consuming. Researchers have now developed ...
May 15, 2025 — Whether bismuth is part of a class of materials highly suitable for quantum computing and spintronics was a long-standing issue. Research has now revealed that the true nature of bismuth was masked ...
May 15, 2025 — Agents, chatbots and other tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in everyday life by many. So-called large language model (LLM)-based agents, such as ChatGPT and Llama, ...
May 14, 2025 — MIT researchers discovered that vision-language models often fail to understand negation, ignoring words like “not” or “without.” This flaw can flip diagnoses or decisions, with models ...
May 14, 2025 — Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its ...
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- New Quantum Visualization Technique to Identify Materials for Next Generation Quantum Computing
- Electronic Tattoo Gauges Mental Strain
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Mid-Air Transformation Helps Flying, Rolling Robot to Transition Smoothly
- Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials
- Five Things to Do in Virtual Reality -- And Five to Avoid
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- The Magic of Light: Dozens of Images Hidden in a Single Screen
- Emotional Responses Crucial to Attitudes About Self-Driving Cars
Friday, May 23, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Could AI Understand Emotions Better Than We Do?
- Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People to See in the Dark, Even With Their Eyes Closed
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
- World's First Petahertz-Speed Phototransistor in Ambient Conditions
- Robots Learning Without Us? New Study Cuts Humans from Early Testing
- Empowering Robots With Human-Like Perception to Navigate Unwieldy Terrain
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Bismuth's Mask Uncovered: Implications for Quantum Computing and Spintronics Materials
- AI Overconfidence Mirrors Human Brain Condition
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Study Shows Vision-Language Models Can't Handle Queries With Negation Words
- Handy Octopus Robot Can Adapt to Its Surroundings
- Light-Driven Cockroach Cyborgs Navigate Without Wires or Surgery
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
- Amuse, a Songwriting AI-Collaborator to Help Create Music
- Bringing Superconducting Nanostructures to 3D
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Ping Pong Bot Returns Shots With High-Speed Precision
- One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses
- Robotic Dog Mimics Mammals for Superior Mobility on Land and in Water
- Eco-Friendly Aquatic Robot Is Made from Fish Food
- Is AI Truly Creative? Turns out Creativity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- AI-Designed DNA Controls Genes in Healthy Mammalian Cells for First Time
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Mathematician Solves Algebra's Oldest Problem Using Intriguing New Number Sequences
- Artificial Sense of Touch, Improved
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Advancing AI for Diverse Applications in Manufacturing, Business and Education
- A Neuro-Quantum Leap in Finding Optimal Solutions
Friday, April 25, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Nanophotonic Platform Boosts Efficiency of Nonlinear-Optical Quantum Teleportation
- Flying Robots Unlock New Horizons in Construction
- Making AI-Generated Code More Accurate in Any Language
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Engineering a Robot That Can Jump 10 Feet High -- Without Legs
- 'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery
- Generative AI Masters the Art of Scent Creation
- Current AI Risks More Alarming Than Apocalyptic Future Scenarios
- New Electronic 'skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Robot See, Robot Do: System Learns After Watching How-to Videos
- Using ChatGPT, Students Might Pass a Course, but With a Cost
Monday, April 21, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- An Elegant Method for the Detection of Single Spins Using Photovoltage
- A Bowling Revolution: Modeling the Perfect Conditions for a Strike
Monday, April 14, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'digital Twins' In Research
- Hopping Gives This Tiny Robot a Leg Up
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Demonstrate the UK's First Long-Distance Ultra-Secure Communication Over a Quantum Network
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
Friday, April 4, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Physics of Irregular Objects on Inclined Planes Probed
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Is AI the New Research Scientist? Not So, According to a Human-Led Study
- First Therapy Chatbot Trial Shows AI Can Provide 'gold-Standard' Care
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Entangled in Self-Discovery: Quantum Computers Analyze Their Own Entanglement
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
- Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Energy by Mimicking the Human Brain
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Revolutionizing Touch: Researchers Explore the Future of Wearable Multi-Sensory Haptic Technology
- New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles
- These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
- VR Crime Scene Tech
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches
- Novel Memristors to Overcome AI's 'catastrophic Forgetting'
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Marine Animals Help Solve Ocean Issues
- Squirrel-Inspired Leaping Robot Can Stick a Landing on a Branch
- Record-Breaking 12,900 Km Ultra-Secure Quantum Satellite Link
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines
- Innovative Infant Wearable Uses Artificial Intelligence for at-Home Assessments of Early Motor Development
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Dialing in the Temperature Needed for Precise Nuclear Timekeeping
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Magnetic Microalgae on a Mission to Become Robots