3D micro strain gauges promote sensing capabilities of electronic skins

Credit: Peking University Imagine a set of flexible tactile sensors that adheres to the surface of your skin, offering customizable detection of biomechanical signals from various body parts. That fiction-like…

Neural Circuitry Behind Social Group Preferences Discovered

Summary: Scientists have identified the brain circuitry that drives spiny mice to prefer larger social groups. The study shows that neural signaling from the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to the…

Bio-inspired wick enhances electronic chip cooling

Human-Dog Brain Activity Syncs During Bonding

Summary: During social interactions, human and dog brain activity becomes synchronized, with mutual gazing and petting enhancing this connection. Over five days, synchronization between human-dog pairs increased with familiarity, suggesting…

How the Brain Turns Sensory Input Into Action

Summary: Neuroscientists have uncovered how sensory input is transformed into motor action across multiple brain regions in mice. The study shows that decision-making is a distributed process across the brain,…

‘DeepFake-o-Meter’ democratizes deepfake detection

Lyu works with postdoctoral researcher Shan Jai in the UB Media Forensics Lab. Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki/University at Buffalo When misleading information spreads online, it can spread fast. Yet many…

Quantum algorithm adopted by Google and IBM

Researchers demonstrate pavement markers that transmit lane information to self-driving cars

Bidirectional coordinator enhances ion arrangement in perovskite solar cells

(a) Cross-sectional SEM images of the perovskite films deposited on the control- and CsX-treated SnO2, configured as FTO/control- and CsX-treated SnO2/Perovskite/Spiro-OMeTAD. (b) GIXRD spectra of the perovskite films deposited on…

Brazil’s shutdown of X fans debate over free speech curbs

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) hold a sign thanking X social media platform owner Elon Musk, during an Independence day rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September…