Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste—researchers are finding new ways to recycle it

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of the modern Olympics and Paralympics, athletes competed using heavy, non-aerodynamic equipment. The record for throwing a javelin, for instance, has almost…

A comprehensive survey of federated transfer learning: Challenges, methods and applications

The challenges of FTL. Credit: Wei Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiao Zhang, Yiqi Tong, Jin Dong Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that…

Digital health care consultations not enough for safe assessment of tonsillitis

Credit: Infectious Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2024.2434878 Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics,…

AI and robots pose new ethical challenges for society

The first book to focus on law, policy, and regulation in human-robot interaction is now available online. Credit: Used with permission from Cambridge University Press, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) and…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its…

Montenegro to extradite crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon to US

Do Kwon’s ‘stable coin’ cryptocurrency TerraUSD was not stable in the end, wiping out about $40 billion of investors’ money and shaking global crypto markets. Montenegro said Friday it will…

OpenAI outlines plans to becoming for-profit company

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit—an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.…

The next era of quantum thermal diodes

Study explores microbial methods for hydrogen production from waste

Numerical simulations show how the classical world might emerge from the many-worlds universes of quantum mechanics

Hugh Everett III developed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in his 1957 PhD thesis at Princeton. He left physics after graduate school to work for the US military. Credit:…