Soft sensors engulfed on A4-size elastomer. Credit: Rongzhou Lin. The electronics industry has been rapidly advancing over the past few decades, leading to the development of countless devices of different…
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Targeting Reward Pathways to Treat Depression
Summary: New research highlights how the brain’s reward-learning system can guide personalized treatments for depression. By studying two brain signals, expected value and prediction error, researchers identified markers that predict…
NASA’s 3D-printed antenna takes additive manufacturing to new heights
The 3D-printed antenna mounted to a ladder prior to testing at NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas. Credit: NASA/Peter Moschetti In fall 2024, NASA developed and tested a…
Musk slams Trump-backed AI mega project
In his first full day in the White House, US President Donald Trump announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker…
English lit grad’s AI tool deciphers Twitter bios, aiding text analysis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An English literature graduate turned data scientist has developed a new method for large language models (LLMs) used by AI chatbots to understand and analyze small…
Microglia Act Differently in Male and Female Brains
Summary: Microglia, the brain’s immune cells, play vital roles in clearing toxins and maintaining neuronal health but can also contribute to neurodegenerative diseases if overactive. New research reveals sex-based differences…
New control system enhances delta robots’ speed and accuracy
Research in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics could lead to faster and more accurate robots for high-precision tasks in factories. Delta robots are parallel computer-controlled machines that…
Predicting dimensions for seamless display across different devices
Illustration of encoding target resolution as color channel in the input image. The target resolution is encoded using five channels. The channel corresponding to the target resolution is filled with…
Imaging technique reveals first 2D chainmail-like material
Atomic structure of a two-dimensional, mechanically interlocked polymer obtained using tilted-corrected bright field microscopy. Credit: Muller Group An advanced imaging technique developed at Cornell has revealed the first two-dimensional, mechanically…
