The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) will be held from 19-25 October in Hangzhou, China. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a…
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Entanglement Boosts Spectroscopy
Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson
A new spectroscopy method outperforms its rivals by pairing an ordinary frequency comb with an entangled one.
[Physics 18, s139] Published Wed Oct 15, 2025
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Putting Few-Electron Pulses to Work
Author(s): Charles Day
Electrostatic repulsion between electrons usually impairs the performance of electron microscopes. Now it can be turned into an advantage.
[Physics 18, s123] Published Wed Oct 15, 2025
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Scientists unlock a 100-year-old quantum secret to supercharge solar power
In a breakthrough that connects modern science with ideas first explored a century ago, researchers have witnessed a surprising phenomenon once thought possible only in inorganic metal oxides appearing inside a glowing organic semiconductor…
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MIT scientists find metals hold secret atomic patterns
For years, scientists have known that tiny chemical patterns can form inside metal alloys, but most assumed these patterns were insignificant or disappeared during manufacturing. Recent experiments have shown that in controlled lab conditions,…
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Cardamom Seed Extract Can Enhance Production of Antiviral Proteins, Study Says
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) seed extract as well as its main bioactive ingredient, 1,8-cineole, have the potential to act as a beneficial antiviral agent by enhancing the production of antiviral proteins called type I interferons,…
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The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat
Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish.
Researchers determined it was probably a squirrel that left a rodent-shaped impression in the concrete of the Windy City. Their new study, published October 15…
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Martian ‘Linear Dune Gullies’ are Created by Sliding Blocks of Carbon Dioxide Ice, Researchers Find
On some of the dune fields on Mars, parallel channels, called linear dune gullies, are found. Contrary to their name these gullies are often highly sinuous. In the past, it was believed that these features were formed by debris flow processes…
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Prehistoric megastructures reveal large-scale hunting networks
An airborne laser survey on the Karst Plateau of the Adriatic hinterland has led to the discovery of previously unknown dry-stone megastructures.
The results of the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),…
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Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition | MIT News
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in…
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