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October 6, 2020

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

Teleportation: Important Step in Improving Quantum Computing

Researchers are exploring new ways of creating quantum-mechanical interactions between distant electrons. The research marks an important advance in quantum ...

Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip

Engineers have designed a 'brain-on-a-chip,' smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known ...

Artificial Intelligence Yields New Antibiotic

Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world's most problematic disease-causing bacteria, ...
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How Mobile Apps Grab Our Attention

Researchers have done the first empirical study on how users pay visual attention to mobile app ...

Virtual Follow-Up Care Is More Convenient and Just as Beneficial to Surgical Patients

Surgical patients who participate in virtual follow-up visits after their operations spend a similar amount of time with surgical team members as those who meet ...

New Model Examines How Societal Influences Affect U.S. Political Opinions

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first quantitative model that captures how politicized environments affect U.S. political opinion formation and ...

New Tool Shows Main Highways of Disease Development

A new tool enables researchers to explore disease patterns from 7.2 million patients spanning 25 years. The tool is freely available for the scientific community and requires no prerequisite ...

AI Can Detect COVID-19 in the Lungs Like a Virtual Physician, New Study Shows

New research shows that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs. The study also shows the new technique can also overcome some of the ...

Drugs Aren't Typically Tested on Women -- Artificial Intelligence Could Correct That Bias

Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts differences in adverse drug effects between men and women by analyzing 50 years' worth of reports in an FDA ...

Screen Time Can Change Visual Perception -- And That's Not Necessarily Bad

The coronavirus pandemic has shifted many of our interactions online, with Zoom video calls replacing in-person classes, work meetings, conferences and other events. Will all that screen time damage ...

New Detector Breakthrough Pushes Boundaries of Quantum Computing

A new article shows potential for graphene bolometers to become a game-changer for quantum ...

'Liking' an Article Online May Mean Less Time Spent Reading It

When people have the option to click 'like' on a media article they encounter online, they spend less time actually reading the text, a new study suggests. In a lab experiment, researchers ...

Machine Learning Homes in on Catalyst Interactions to Accelerate Materials Development

A machine learning technique rapidly rediscovered rules governing catalysts that took humans years of difficult calculations to reveal -- and even explained a deviation. The team that developed the ...

Brain Circuitry Shaped by Competition for Space as Well as Genetics

Complex brain circuits in rodents can organize themselves with genetics playing only a secondary role, according to a new computer modelling ...

Understanding Ghost Particle Interactions

Scientists have constructed a nuclear physics model capturing the interactions between neutrinos and atomic nuclei. This model building is part of a larger project to understand the role of neutrinos ...

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 ...

Recording Thousands of Nerve Cell Impulses at High Resolution

Researchers have developed a new generation of microelectrode-array chips for measuring nerve impulses, enabling studies of how thousands of nerve cells interact with each ...

Avoiding Environmental Losses in Quantum Information Systems

New research has revealed how robust initial states can be prepared in quantum information systems, minimizing any unwanted transitions which lead to losses in quantum ...

To Kill a Quasiparticle: A Quantum Whodunit

Quasiparticles die young, lasting far, far less than a second. Why? A new Monash University study finds a culprit beyond the usual suspect (decay into lower energy states). Identification of the new ...

Study Reveals Design Flaws of Chatbot-Based Symptom-Checker Apps

Millions of people turn to their mobile devices when seeking medical advice. They're able to share their symptoms and receive potential diagnoses through chatbot-based symptom-checker (CSC) ...

Physicists Develop a Method to Improve Gravitational Wave Detector Sensitivity

Gravitational wave detectors opened a new window to the universe by measuring the ripples in spacetime produced by colliding black holes and neutron stars, but they are ultimately limited by quantum ...

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. The innovation means scientists will not have to ...

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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