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A new study in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials takes a different route: it deliberately induces dielectric resonance, the collective oscillation of local electrons between adjacent but non-contacting particles under an external alternating electric field.

An international collaboration co-led by an IAS scholar has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most

These robots have real muscles, and they’re finally making big moves. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed muscle

Quantum computers only work when a control system reliably delivers algorithms to the hardware while immediately detecting and

Before you buy a local AI machine, know what you're actually optimizing for. Here's a breakdown of NVIDIA, AMD and Apple.

In a controlled comparison, zinc oxide nanoparticles degraded 85 percent of methyl red dye under xenon-lamp irradiation, outperforming magnesium oxide at 72 percent and copper oxide at 68 percent.

Author(s): T. Rõõm, A. Glezer Moshe, R. Nagarajan, U. Nagel, Hee Taek Yi, Seongshik Oh, and G. BlumbergTerahertz magneto-optics is established as a direct probe of helical vortex-core excitations, providing dynamical evidence for multiband CdGM states in iron-based superconductors. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 176001] Published Fri Oct 23, 2026

Liv McMahon / BBC: The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind  —  The UK says it will establish a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to help strengthen its defences against emerging biological threats.

A new anomaly-detection method called OSCAR learns each brain region's typical whole-brain connectivity profile and flags multivariate deviations during tasks and in early psychosis, uncovering condition-related regions that standard perMANOVA misses.

Researchers built a low-cost pavement inspection pipeline from smartphones, a denoising diffusion model, and YOLOv11m, showing synthetic images improve alligator crack detection when labeled data are scarce, with the largest gains under strict localization metrics.

A meta-analysis of ten randomized controlled trials in 995 breast cancer survivors found that virtual reality–assisted relaxation therapy was associated with significant reductions in anxiety, depression, psychological distress, and self-reported fatigue.

Get ready for the age of private space telescopes. The Lazuli Space Telescope will launch in a few years and part of its mission is to observe exoplanets. New research presents a list of 27 exoplanet targets, some of which are very well-known and will certainly benefit from deeper observations.

A particle swarm optimization strategy that dynamically selects the most informative clients in federated learning matches state-of-the-art methods for medical image classification while keeping standard FedAvg aggregation intact.

A review in Artificial Intelligence Review maps how EEG foundation models evolved from borrowed language- and vision-model architectures between 2021 and 2025 toward four neuro-native design paradigms, while cautioning that clinical value still awaits rigorous cross-subject and cross-device validation.

A scoping review of 38 studies maps the evidence for ultrasound-triggered microbubble and nanobubble platforms in breast cancer imaging, local drug delivery, and immunotherapy.

A semi-supervised YOLO11 pipeline using confidence filtering, DIoU-NMS deduplication, and light manual checks outperforms fully supervised scrap steel detection while cutting annotation cost.

A new methods article outlines how artificial intelligence should be used to integrate liquid biopsy biomarkers in cancer research, finding that few studies combine multiple molecular layers and none assess calibration or clinical utility.

The new RFD4-Proteina unified generative model for protein design—created by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) in collaboration with NVIDIA—uses advanced AI to generate entirely new protein sequences and structures, achieving computational design success rates five to 10 times higher than previous models and generating candidates five to 10 times faster.

A new nanomaterial called TPTN reduces uveitis inflammation by suppressing microglial activation and inhibiting the JAK2-STAT1 signaling pathway in mouse models.

A robotic citrus harvester that aligns fruit stems with a passive V-shaped guide and coordinated arm motions achieved an average residual stem length of 3.10 millimeters across 100 orchard-harvested navel oranges with no fruit damage.

Zhejiang University researchers report a physics-guided framework combining generative imputation, dynamic graph attention, and a constrained decoder that achieved zero quantile crossing in retrospective probabilistic forecasting of 11 Belgian PV zones, though interval calibration remains improvable.

Researchers at AIST have demonstrated the synthesis of nanoporous carbonaceous materials and carbonaceous materials with layered nanostructures through a simple process involving the chemical modification of common sugars such as sucrose and fructose.

Thin films of fluorescein dye and graphene nanosheets embedded in polyvinyl alcohol showed higher thermal conductivity, faster light response, and greater quantum efficiency than dye-only films in a new laboratory photodetector study.

Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms, publishers, marketplaces, and communities built on it, the next few months bring an unwelcome decision. Find a replacement, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: "When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies," published in the journal Physical Review D.

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.

Tesla has begun building production quality Optimus robots in Fremont and revealed its training plan. The post Tesla reveals Optimus Academy, where robots teach themselves appeared first on TESLARATI.

Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia announced a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU. Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system. Uber is also involved, a French trade paper reported. No launch date was given. Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia will work with […] This story continues at The Next Web

For years, developers of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have worked to address an unwanted side effect many users experience: cybersickness, a type of motion sickness triggered by moving digital content.

Researchers at Umea university thought gold particles would make electronic components emit more light. Instead, they discovered an unexpected effect that could be important for the future of organic electronics.

Robots the size of a pencil tip could travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.

During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT

Researchers propose a testable framework that pairs Traditional Chinese Medicine's preventive-treatment doctrine with digital phenotyping and dual-engine AI analysis for chronic disease control, while stressing the architecture remains clinically unvalidated.

One of the many challenging parts of being a doctor is diagnosing exactly what is wrong with a patient. This is because numerous illnesses often have overlapping symptoms, which can make the diagnostic journey a long one.

A new bibliometric analysis of 809 publications shows that research on artificial intelligence for predicting and preventing sports injuries grew from 13 papers in 2018 to 204 by 2025, with machine learning, injury prevention, and wearable technology emerging as the field's central themes.

A Nature Neuroscience study shows that the slow-dissociation kinetics of LSD at the serotonin 2A receptor let repeated low-dose psychedelics sustain β-arrestin signaling and produce lasting antidepressant-like effects in mice and cynomolgus macaques without detectable psychedelic-associated behavioral disruption.

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th "to allow more time for us to explain to our partners and stakeholders what's changing and what's not." The business terms, which were originally supposed to go into effect on October 30th, appeared to give Meta permission to freely scrape the new sites that use its platforms, while using the material for AI training. Though Meta u … Read the full story at The Verge.

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the lower-right corner, where a distant background galaxy is being magnified and distorted by the gravity of a closer galaxy.

A prospective pilot study of four acute-phase stroke patients in Japan found that gait training with the Hybrid Assistive Limb exoskeleton significantly improved step length and walking velocity within single sessions, although adjusted comparisons with conventional training did not reach statistical significance.

A new Frontiers in Nanotechnology Research Topic curated for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science collects six women-led studies spanning cell mechanics, osteoporosis nanoparticles, vapor sensors, SERS substrates, nanoflow metrology and plant gene delivery.

A new review argues that biomolecules from plants, algae and bacteria can replace toxic solvents and energy-intensive processes in the synthesis of metallic nanomaterials, with comparable particle sizes and applications but persistent challenges in stability, scalability and mechanistic control.

A new test-time adaptation framework shows that online model updates can rescue surgical instrument segmentation from severe low light and blur, but normalization statistics, not temporal machinery, drive most of the recovery.

Researchers in Türkiye have combined IoT sensors, gradient-boosted machine learning, and a safely grounded large language model into a prototype system that predicts wind turbine gearbox and electrical failures in real time and explains them to operators in plain language.

Researchers tuned gold nanoparticle deposition on titanium dioxide nanotubes to build an enzyme-free glucose sensor with a sensitivity of 7.96 microamperes per millimolar per square centimeter and a detection limit of 15.1 micromolar.

Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the South China Morning Post. Wang spoke at a physical AI conference that Unitree hosted in […] This story continues at The Next Web

Arriving on the Caribbean island of Dominica for the first time "feels a little bit like stepping into Jurassic Park," said Giovanni Petri, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London.

A new PLOS Computational Biology perspective sets out ten practical rules defining where AI assistance in computational biology is legitimate and where it becomes risky delegation.

Hugging Face's Carbon-X AI model lets researchers analyze DNA using natural language, with lower reported costs and local deployment options for labs. The post Hugging Face’s New AI Model Lets Scientists Analyze DNA at a Fraction of the Cost appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.

Researchers report a Caesalpinia bonducella-derived Ag/CuO nanocomposite that detects nitrite down to 0.1 nanomolar by cyclic voltammetry and shows antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in laboratory tests.

Medical AI can improve with new patient data, but every update must be checked first. Patients, equipment and ways of working change, and a model trained on older data can gradually get worse without anyone noticing.

Meta's Muse AI was built to manage tasks, but users are developing romantic AI relationships and even calling the AI companion their girlfriend.

Expectations are high and billions are being invested in the quantum race. Doctoral researcher Christa Schauman explains how

Brain cells are being launched into space with the aim of advancing research into neurodegenerative diseases, thanks to

Canva Craft Image Model Canva no longer wants to rent its image AI from rivals. The design company

Quantum technologies sound like science fiction. In a sense, they are. Technologies that use quantum effects can seem

Nvidia and Hugging Face show how a $399 duck-shaped robot learns to walk using AI simulation. Here's how Microduck works, what it costs, and when buyers may get one. The post Nvidia Teaches a $399 Duck Robot to Walk Using AI appeared first on TechRepublic.

Nvidia and Agile Robots unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid with Jetson Thor computing and Isaac GR00T training tools. Here's what it can do, its specifications, and when it launches. The post Agile ONE SN Humanoid Robot Bundles Nvidia’s Robotics Stack appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses are now available in Malaysia. Compare four models, their prices, features, and prescription compatibility. The post Meta AI Glasses Now on Sale in Malaysia: Which Ray-Ban or Oakley Model Should You Buy? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Human cells hold about two meters (6.6 feet) of DNA, folded and compacted to fit inside a nucleus. That packing is essential for life, but it creates a problem for scientists. Some of the genes that control a cell's identity are buried so deep in tightly packed DNA that gene-targeting tools such as CRISPR activation, or CRISPRa, struggle to reach them.

OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research have used close to 2,000 AI agents to analyse a large mouse brain dataset in 32 minutes. The team estimates that researchers working by hand would need months to a year for the same analysis, which OpenAI published on Wednesday. The agents ran on OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind, a model built for life […] This story continues at The Next Web

A new Perspective argues that immersive virtual reality, by reducing the salience of the social audience and capturing motor and gaze signals resistant to deliberate control, could help clinicians see past masking in children's ADHD and autism assessments, though the central claim remains untested.

Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The round values the company at $1.45B post-money, Tim Fernholz reported for TechCrunch. F-Prime is a venture […] This story continues at The Next Web

Quantum systems can occupy superpositions, quantum states that combine different possibilities. For instance, a microwave field can be prepared in a superposition of an empty state and a state that contains microwave light.

The word on the ground from Nvidia's GTC conference in Berlin.

Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work. Axios first reported the round on Thursday, after chief executive Saman Farid spoke to Natalie Breymeyer. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Claire chatted to Jan Petrš from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Déploya Robotics about novel robot designs for construction and architecture. Jan Petrš is a roboticist, architect, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of robotics and construction. He is currently the co-founder of Déploya Robotics, an EPFL spin-off developing deployable robotic systems for […]

Researchers have solved a long-standing challenge in understanding how tiny defects in materials like diamond and silicon carbide behave when exposed to light. Their new computational method revealed a surprisingly important energy-loss mechanism in silicon carbide that scientists had previously underestimated. The finding helps explain a mystery that has puzzled researchers for years and could improve the design of quantum computers and sensors.

A tiny region deep within the brain has surprised scientists by revealing a remarkably sophisticated communication system. Previously thought to broadcast the same chemical signal throughout the brain, this region actually sends targeted messages that help control learning, attention, and behavior, according to new research in mice.

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, allowing it to swim and steer through water. The breakthrough could pave the way for tiny, self-healing biological robots capable of exploring fragile environments that ordinary machines cannot safely navigate.

Maxinsights pays people to wear cameras while they cook, clean and work. The Santa Clara startup has now raised $30M in seed funding to turn that footage into training data for robots. Peak XV led the round, the company announced on Thursday. Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital and Alumni Ventures also took part. […] This story continues at The Next Web

The word on the ground from Nvidia's German showpiece conference.

A team based in Switzerland says their robot reacts up to 20 times faster than a human while injecting into the eye.

Too many STEM professionals say AI has changed their role too much or added too much workload – so they're just leaving.

The system is designed to clear a continuous route through anti-personnel minefields by sweeping away the main types of anti-personnel mines

Wolves, who used to live in the forests recently cleared for Google data center development, are now roaming into Finnish villages nearby.

A new technology encodes an invisible mark into the structure of AI-generated proteins, but experts said the system's guardrails can still be bypassed.

Google DeepMind researchers have resigned over the company's military AI work, warning that rapid battlefield targeting could undermine meaningful human oversight despite Google's stated safeguards.

Pressure sensors and particle detectors could benefit from research The post Levitated nanoparticle detects single-atom collisions appeared first on Physics World.

This article was first published by The Korea Times in a partnership with the South China Morning Post. Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in South Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and commercial deployments, as Seoul ramps up investment in physical artificial intelligence. A growing number of Chinese robotics companies – including Hong Kong-listed UBTech Robotics, start-up Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based...

Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that solved complex medical cases more than twice as accurately as generalist doctors in a study published in Science. Unlike many medical AI systems, it works through a case step by step, deciding which questions to ask and which tests to order before reaching a diagnosis. The tool, […] This story continues at The Next Web

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A joint research team from Jeonbuk National University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an ionic soft robot called the Ionograsper that can detect nearby objects and grasp them in response to light. The findings were published in the international journal Advanced Materials, and the paper was selected as a cover article. The study is titled “A Multifunctional Ionograsper Enabling Ion-Redistribution Proximity Sensing and Structural-Reconfiguration-Driven Bidirectional Actuation.” Jeonbuk National University said Thursday that the research was led by Kim Yong-min, a professor at its School of Chemical Engineering, and Moon Hong-chul, a professor in KAIST’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The university said the key innovation lies in a single soft material that serves as both a sensor and an artificial muscle. The robot can be activated by brief exposure to low-intensity ultraviolet light and retains its deformed shape

Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds, via noninvasive EEG electrodes that recorded and translated their brainwaves.

A surprising two-year clinical trial found that fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain but failed to improve memory or protect against Alzheimer's-related brain shrinkage. Researchers suspect that getting these nutrients through a healthy diet may offer benefits that supplements alone cannot provide.

Author(s): Michael SchirberA new hint of topological superconductivity has been identified in an iron-based superconductor. [Physics 19, s134] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

Author(s): Vernon BargerIf the 220 PeV KM3NeT neutrino is a two-body decay line from a long-lived dark-matter bound state, its energy fixes the relic mass, its flux the lifetime, and the lifetime the mass of the mediator that lets the relic decay: 10¹⁴ to 10¹⁶ GeV, the Majorana-mass window of unified models. Future events will test this reading against a flaring astrophysical source. [APS Open Sci. 1, 000180] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

Author(s): Wenyao Liu et al.Edge-mediated nonlocal transport measurements in thin Fe(Te,Se) devices reveal a robust conductance plateau governed by spontaneous magnetic ordering. [Phys. Rev. X 16, 041022] Published Thu Oct 22, 2026

HD Hyundai is accelerating its push into the North American market by joining hands with Kiewit, the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, to directly build a shipyard in the country.HD Hyundai said it signed an agreement with Kiewit in Houston on Oct. 22 local time to e

Associated Press: US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”  —  The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …

Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 as part of a debt restructuring. The filing follows a failed Shutterstock merger and growing competition from AI-generated imagery.

If you wanted a Nobel Prize, you would do well to study neutrinos. To date, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded five times to research related to neutrino detection and discovery. This year, Francis Halzen earned the Nobel "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin."

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies  —  In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.

What, exactly, is a plant made of? Scientists have a good understanding of the essential nutrients plants need to grow. But what plants need and what they contain are not necessarily the same.

Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and other commercial applications as Seoul beefs up investment in physical artificial intelligence (AI). A string of Chinese robotics companies have flexed their muscles or announced projects in the country this year, including Hong Kong-listed Ubtech, startup Anyverse Dynamics, Shanghai-based Agibot and leading robot maker Unitree. “China’s new generation of robot companies has global DNA and naturally looks overseas, and Korea is one of the most important markets in Asia-Pacific,” said Ethan Qi, an associate director covering robotics at Counterpoint Research. The absence of locally built humanoids available at scale has created an opening for Chinese suppliers, he added. Early footprint Representatives of Galaxy Robot Park, a robot-themed entertainment venue in Seoul, agreed to buy Ubtech’s lifelike U1 model after attending its

A joint research team fabricated a two-dimensional structure that exhibits properties of both the honeycomb and Kagome lattices using organic molecules. They discovered that edge states specific to topological materials (states that exist only at the edges and are distinct from those in the interior) appear in this structure. The team included researchers from NIMS, Toyota Kosen (National Institute of Technology, Toyota College), Saga University, Nara Women's University, Kiel University (Germany) and other institutions.

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an announcement on Thursday. Canva Craft can generate images at up to 2K resolution and in more than 30 aspect ratios. In addition to generating social media posts and marketing content, it's also supposed to create realistic scenes, digital art, environmental imagery, and more. The model's two-stage sy … Read the full story at The Verge.

Canva launches Craft, its first AI image generation model, with 2K resolution, improved text rendering, 30 aspect ratios, and design-focused training.