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Bizarre Things: Computers & Math
October 6, 2020

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3D Biometric Authentication Based on Finger Veins Almost Impossible to Fool

Biometric authentication, which uses unique anatomical features such as fingerprints or facial features to verify a person's identity, is increasingly replacing traditional passwords for accessing ...

Machine Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology: Algorithms Can Bioengineer Cells for You

Scientists have developed a new tool that adapts machine learning algorithms to the needs of synthetic biology to guide development systematically. ...

Magnetic 'T-Budbots' Made from Tea Plants Kill and Clean Biofilm

Biofilms -- microbial communities that form slimy layers on surfaces -- are difficult to treat and remove, often because the microbes release molecules that block the entry of antibiotics and other ...

Spin Clean-Up Method Brings Practical Quantum Computers Closer to Reality

Researchers create a quantum algorithm that removes spin contaminants while making chemical calculations on quantum computers. This allows for predictions of electronic and molecular behavior with ...
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AI Used to Show How Hydrogen Becomes a Metal Inside Giant Planets

Researchers have used a combination of AI and quantum mechanics to reveal how hydrogen gradually turns into a metal inside giant ...

Tool Transforms World Landmark Photos Into 4D Experiences

Using publicly available tourist photos of world landmarks such as the Trevi Fountain in Rome or Top of the Rock in New York City, researchers have developed a method to create maneuverable 3D images ...

Quantum Light Squeezes the Noise out of Microscopy Signals

Researchers used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and illuminate a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is possible with traditional ...

Battery-Free Game Boy Runs Forever

Researchers develop first-ever battery-free, energy-harvesting, interactive device. And it looks and feels like a retro 8-bit Nintendo Game ...

New Electronic Skin Can React to Pain Like Human Skin

New pain-sensing prototype mimics the body's near-instant feedback response and reacts to painful sensations with the same lighting speed that nerve signals travel to the brain. It's a ...

Your Paper Notebook Could Become Your Next Tablet

Engineers developed a simple printing process that renders any paper or cardboard packaging into a keyboard, keypad or other easy-to-use human-machine ...

New Evidence for Quantum Fluctuations Near a Quantum Critical Point in a Superconductor

A study has found evidence for quantum fluctuations near a quantum critical point in a superconductor. Theory suggests that these quantum critical points may be analogous to black holes as places ...

Using Math to Examine the Sex Differences in Dinosaurs

When you only have fossils to go off of, it's hard to tell which dinosaur traits, like size and ornamentation, are related to the animals' sex, and which traits are related to other things ...

Infinitesimally low levels of radiation, such as from incoming cosmic rays, may soon stymie progress in quantum ...

Microscopic Robots 'Walk' Thanks to Laser Tech

A collaboration has created the first microscopic robots that incorporate semiconductor components, allowing them to be controlled - and made to walk - with standard electronic ...

Building Mechanical Memory Boards Using Origami

Origami can be used to create mechanical, binary switches, and researchers report the fabrication of such a paper device, using the Kresling pattern, that can act as a mechanical switch. By putting ...

Beam Me Up: Researchers Use 'Behavioral Teleporting' to Study Social Interactions

Researchers have devised a novel approach to getting physically separated fish to interact with each other, leading to insights about what kinds of cues influence social ...

'Selfies' Could Be Used to Detect Heart Disease

Sending a 'selfie' to the doctor could be a cheap and simple way of detecting heart disease, according to researchers. Their study is the first to show that it's possible to use a deep ...

Scientists Slow and Steer Light With Resonant Nanoantennas

Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum computing, LIDAR and even the detection of ...

Mathematicians Unravel a Thread of String Theory

Mathematicians are exploring a string duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory in eight ...

Graph Theory: Solution to '3 Utilities Problem' Could Lead to Better Computers

Researchers thought that they were five years away from solving a math riddle from the 1980's. In reality, and without knowing, they had nearly cracked the problem and had just given away much ...

Bio-Based Communication Networks Could Control Cells in the Body to Treat Conditions

Electronic devices and biological cells communicate through very different mechanisms. Now, scientists report progress on tiny communication networks that overcome this language barrier, allowing ...

To Perceive Faces, Your Brain Relies on a Process Similar to Face Recognition Systems

Imagine if every time you looked at a face, one side of the face always appeared distorted as if it were melting, resembling a painting by Salvador Dalí. This is the case for people with ...

Simple Mod Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer

A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational -- or 'coherent' -- 10,000 times longer than ...

AI System for High Precision Recognition of Hand Gestures

Scientists have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that recognises hand gestures by combining skin-like electronics with computer ...

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