The year is 2015. “Mad scientist” Doc Brown has just brought wide-eyed teenager Marty McFly to the future in style: aboard a flying DeLorean. Although the time travelers are out of place, their mode of transportation is not. Cars…
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Spike Mechanism of Biological Neurons May Boost Artificial Neural Networks
• Physics 18, 5
By incorporating electrical pulses with shapes similar to those of the spikes from biological neurons, researchers improved the…
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Scientific investigation determines whether skull is Cleopatra’s sister
A multidisciplinary team, led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, has analysed a skull first unearthed in 1929 among the ruins of Ephesus, Turkey.
The skull was originally excavated by Austrian archaeologist Josef Keil…
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Harnessing corrosion: Scientists transform dealloying into sustainable lightweight alloy design
Alloying, the art of blending metals with other elements, has long been a cornerstone of materials science and metallurgy, creating materials with tailored properties. In contrast, dealloying has been known primarily as a corrosive process that…
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Roborock Saros Z70, SwitchBot, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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AI could transform health care, but will it live up to the hype?
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S.A. Shah et al. Use of artificial intelligence–based detection of diabetic retinopathy in the US. JAMA Ophthalmology. Vol. 142, December 2024, p. 1171. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.4493.
R. Amin et al. Immune digital twin…
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Wybot S3 Pool Cleaning Robot Announced at CES 2025
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down to…
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Hidden transport pathways in graphene confirmed, paving the way for next-generation device innovation
Electron transport in bilayer graphene exhibits a pronounced dependence on edge states and a nonlocal transport mechanism, according to a recent study led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Ph.D. candidate Hyeon-Woo Jeong of POSTECH’s Department of…
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Researchers find betrayal doesn’t necessarily make someone less trustworthy if we benefit
Imagine this scenario: Two people cheat on their partners with each other and then leave their partners to be together. Should they trust each other, or “once a cheater, always a cheater”?
Intuition and past research suggest that whether people…
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