People Empathize with Bullied AI Bots

Summary: People empathize with AI bots excluded from a virtual game, treating them like social beings in need of fairness. Participants favored giving the AI bot a fair chance in…

New benchmark helps solve the hardest quantum problems

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From subatomic particles to complex molecules, quantum systems hold the key to understanding how the universe works. But there’s a catch: when you try to model…

Novel superconducting flux qubit can operate without being surrounded by a magnetic field

Quantum research breakthrough uses synthetic dimensions to efficiently process quantum information

COP16 confronts “huge” challenge of protecting 30% of world’s land and sea

Ahead of the UN biodiversity summit, countries are urged to come up with strong new plans and funding to meet global nature goals The global target to protect at least…

Is identity or diversity key to managing disease in crops? – Functional Ecologists

In this post, Seraina Cappelli – postdoctoral fellow at University of Minnesota – presents her work ‘The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops’. She…

ARQUIN provides framework for simulating distributed quantum computing system

Dilution refrigerators keep superconducting qubits cold. Credit: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory One of the most difficult problems with quantum computing relates to increasing the size of the…

Novel procedure may bridge the treatment gap for symptomatic flexible flatfoot

A SESA screw stabilizing a patient’s foot and preventing bones from returning to a flat position. Credit: Children’s Hospital Boston Most children develop arches in their feet by early adolescence.…

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble—AI-powered Auslan avatar can help

Credit: Donald Tong from Pexels For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry…

Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalized with COVID are almost three times more likely to die

Credit: Monstera, Pexels (CC0, creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others. When children were assessed separately,…