Chick Calls Reveal Emotional States

Summary: Researchers have developed a way to measure stress in baby chicks using vocalizations, offering new insights into animal emotions. The study found that chicks alone produced higher-pitched, louder calls,…

Brain Signals Reveal How Aggression and Arousal Are Encoded

Summary: New research has uncovered that brain signals for aggression in male mice and sexual arousal in female mice are encoded by similar neural mechanisms. The studies found that a…

Soft robotic shorts could assist older adults and people with limited mobility while walking

Solving computationally hard problems with 3D integrated photonics

Computing results of the SSP instances where the set is {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17} and {2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17}, respectively. (a) and (c) The experimental…

How Social Learning Guides Decisions When Preferences Differ

Summary: A new study shows that humans use social information to guide their decisions, even when others’ preferences differ from their own. Researchers found that people treat social cues as…

New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI

llustration of the threat model where the attacker scrapes music posted online by victim musicians to train their music generative models. Credit: Jian Liu et al Nearly 200 years after…

Youth Face Rising Risks of Harassment and Exploitation in the Metaverse

Summary: A new study reveals that youth are vulnerable to various forms of harm in the metaverse, including bullying, harassment, and sexual exploitation. Using data from over 5,000 U.S. teens,…

Social Media Verification Drives Polarization and Echo Chambers

Summary: A new study shows that X’s verification system, which gives verified users priority in algorithms, can increase polarization and trigger the formation of echo chambers. Researchers used computational modeling…

Robots learn to perceive objects using acoustic vibrations

Credit: Duke University Imagine sitting in a dark movie theater wondering just how much soda is left in your oversized cup. Rather than prying off the cap and looking, you…

AI video generation expert discusses the technology’s rapid advances—and its current limitations

Credit: AI-generated image This presidential cycle has already seen several high-profile examples of people using deepfakes to try to influence voters. Deepfakes are images, audio recordings, or videos generated or…