Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and…
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How Uber steers its drivers toward better performance
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that the app’s ratings and incentive system has made drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers. The findings suggest regulators…
Towards better earthquake risk assessment with machine learning and geological survey data
By including geographic coordinates, elevation, and stratigraphic information as input variables, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology have compared three different ML algorithms (RF, ANN, and SVM) for predicting the…
Hubble Telescope gives us our best look yet at the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (video, photo)
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now have the sharpest image yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, showing that it is clearly a comet, with a coma filled with…
EU advises DR Congo against oil drilling in “Green Corridor”
The European Union has advised the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not to allow oil drilling in a huge stretch of land spanning nature-rich rainforests and peatlands which the EU…
Squashing the spotted lanternfly problem may require enlisting other species
A beautiful menace is on the move in the United States. Polka-dotted, red-and-gray-winged insects are gliding along sidewalks, climbing on plants and crawling up buildings. Spotted youngsters are leaping away…
Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors
Robot Drummer executing a cymbal (dark brown) strike in a learned rhythmic sequence. Credit: Shahid, Braghin & Roveda. Humanoid robots, robots with a human-like body structure, have so far been…
Mouse study reveals gut microbe balance may be key factor in early-onset colorectal cancer
Graphical abstract. Credit: American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology (2025). DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00040.2025 With colorectal cancer on the rise in people under 50, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…
Physicists capture elusive instability and exotic vortices
The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The central spiral and surrounding stars and moon resemble the vortices formed…
