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A Chalmers team built physics into AI, cutting optical material design time from 30 days to 3.
Physics-aware AI helped Chalmers researchers design optical materials faster, with less data and fewer errors.
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BioCoach combines AI and biomechanics to give real-time exercise form feedback and explain mistakes during at-home workouts.
AIBioCoach uses AI and biomechanics to give real-time exercise feedback at homeAmyn Bhai
SETI scientists scanned interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio technosignatures and found no evidence of artificial signals.
SpaceSETI checked 3I/ATLAS for alien signals — Here’s what they foundJoseph Shavit
A new tachyon theory argues faster-than-light particles may fit within relativity without the old paradoxes about time and causality.
SpaceNew tachyon theory could unlock the secrets of time travel and causalityJoshua Shavit
New modelling by Dr Anthony Clarke and his team suggests Stonehenge’s Altar Stone was not carried to southern England by ice alone. Humans likely moved it.
DiscoveriesAncient Britons likely transported Stonehenge’s Altar Stone 700 kilometers from ScotlandRebecca Shavit
New simulations show fast flavor conversion can either help or hinder core-collapse supernova explosions.
SpaceThe explosive fate of a collapsing star depends on neutrinosJoseph Shavit
A new analysis argues many consciousness studies may measure information processing, not subjective experience.
AIAs AI systems evolve could they really become conscious?Shy Cohen
An internal view of the reactor system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide and renewable electricity into methane.
Green ImpactScientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbesJoshua Shavit
Iron meteorites suggest Earth’s nitrogen and phosphorus may have come from early inner solar system planetesimals.
SpaceIron meteorites unlock secrets of the early solar system and Earth’s origin
A female mammoth with her calf in a glacial landscape during the Last Glacial Maximum. Reconstruction by R. Bakker/Rotterdam for the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim.
DiscoveriesWoolly mammoths were likely butchered by hunters and gatherers, study findsRebecca Shavit
Caffeine may not shorten sleep, but EEG studies show it can reduce deep, restorative brain activity during the night.
HealthScientists reveal what caffeine actually does to your sleepMac Oliveau
Astronomers have identified a likely evolutionary path linking dusty star-forming galaxies to massive quiescent galaxies that stopped producing stars surprisingly early in cosmic history.
SpaceEarly galaxy collisions may explain why giant galaxies died youngJoshua Shavit
Researchers developed a wearable ultrasound patch that continuously monitors fetal blood flow and may improve care for high-risk pregnancies.
HealthNew ultrasound sticker tracks fetal health in real timeMac Oliveau
Scientists tracked 37 species and found animals react strongly to human movement, often in unexpected ways.
DiscoveriesGPS study tracks how animals respond to people across AmericaHannah Shavit-Weiner
Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia living among archaeocyath reefs in shallow seas approximately 520 million years ago.
DiscoveriesFossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal lifeRebecca Shavit
The researchers used waveguides—microscopic channels fabricated on a silicon wafer—to guide light. Long waveguides of varying widths can be seen on the chip, where a thin layer of organic molecules transforms light as it passes through.
AINew material tackles one of the biggest barriers to scaling artificial intelligenceShy Cohen
Simulations suggest six spacecraft could weaken geomagnetic storms before they disrupt Earth’s satellites, GPS, and power grids.
SpaceSix-satellite ‘StormWall’ could stop dangerous solar storms before they hit EarthJoseph Shavit