Germany to ease solar rules as new installations surge

Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks at the conference of the Green parliamentary group “Green Warmth for All” – Climate-Fair, Social, Environmentally Compatible, at the…

Smart surgical implant coatings provide early failure warning while preventing infection

Smart coatings on orthopedic implants, developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have bacteria-killing nanopillars on one side and strain-mapping flexible electronics on the other. This could help physicians guide…

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

A girl reacts as she receives a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Children above the age of 12 are now receiving…

Study reveals insights into post-vaccine heart inflammation cases

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When new COVID-19 vaccines were first administered two years ago, public health officials found an increase in cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle,…

Tackling the ethical dilemma of responsibility in large language models

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with international experts, have published a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence addressing the complex ethical issues surrounding…

Researchers say AI emergent abilities are just a ‘mirage’

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There seems to be no end to predictions of storm clouds when computers eventually decide to…

Artificial neurons mimic complex brain abilities for next-generation AI computing

This algorithm can make satellite signals act like GPS

Researchers evaluate energy conservation and carbon reduction potential for biomass energy conversion

Fig. 1.  Schematic diagram of biomass energy conservation and carbon reduction with multiple-sources and multiple-approach biomass use. Credit: Xi Fengming Biomass energy is a form of solar energy stored in…

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews