As the capabilities of generative AI models have grown, you’ve probably seen how they can transform simple text prompts into hyperrealistic images and even extended video clips.
More recently, generative AI has shown…
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Quiz: What Happened to Previous Top Tech Predictions?
Each January for more than a decade, the editors of IEEE Spectrum have delivered an issue that tries to predict the future. Specifically, we bring you a selection of important technology projects that we think will reach a significant milestone…
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Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a backward pouch is both
Evolving a dig-in-the-dark mole lifestyle comes with radical anatomical changes, making it hard even to guess the animal’s closest relatives. That’s why the true identity of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the…
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Quantum Refrigerator Keeps Qubits Cool
• Physics 18, 16
Physicists have demonstrated a quantum machine that could reduce errors in quantum computers by ensuring that the qubits they use remain in their initial state before a calculation starts.
Chalmers…
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Bumpy Particles Take One Step to Become Glass
• Physics 18, s11
Roughing up the surfaces of particles in a colloidal system can smooth its transition into a glassy state.
For researchers studying the glass transition, a colloidal suspension sandwiched between…
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Robotic Vacuum Cleaner for Microplastics
Author(s): Katherine Wright
Seong Jim Kim and Myoung-Woon Moon of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a device that can “vacuum” up tiny pieces of plastic floating on the surface of a body of water.
[Physics 18, 6]…
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Finding better photovoltaic materials faster with AI
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Perovskite solar cells are a flexible and sustainable alternative to conventional silicon-based solar cells. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of… Continue Reading
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In the hunt for new and better enzymes, AI steps to the fore
Combing through scads of DNA, chemical structure, and functional data, researchers have created an AI-guided platform that helps design, build, and test powerful new enzymes.
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UMaine-led team develops more holistic way to monitor lobster industry
Maine’s lobster fishery — one that supports thousands of jobs statewide — is extensively monitored. Management efforts are informed by biological monitoring surveys observing changes in abundance and distribution of the lobster population, and…
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Permafrost Thaw and Wildfires Are Raising CO2 Emissions in Arctic Tundras
Climate change has already begun to instigate environment-altering effects around the world, and the latest evidence is cropping up in arctic regions that are emitting increasing amounts of carbon dioxide. Researchers in a new study published in Continue Reading