Artificial photosynthesis system surpasses key efficiency benchmark for direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion

Death Isn’t the End: AI Brings Lost Voices Back to Life

Summary: A new paper explores how generative AI is transforming the way we interact with the dead, from virtual reality reunions to lifelike digital avatars. These “generative ghosts” can remember,…

Brain Injury Could Explain Sudden Criminal Behavior

Summary: A new study has found that damage to a specific white matter pathway in the brain—the right uncinate fasciculus—may increase the likelihood of criminal or violent behavior following brain…

Bangladesh pushes solar to tackle energy woes

A young Rohingya refugee spreads out fire wood for drying on the roof of a shack, next to a solar panel, in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar in 2018. Bangladesh’s caretaker leader…

New method can teach AI to admit uncertainty

Open-source fuzzer uses evolutionary algorithm to produce customized test inputs

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past decade, fuzzers have become the most widely used tools to test software security and robustness. Generating random inputs and feeding them to an…

How Brain Cells Coordinate to Make Complex Decisions

Summary: Every decision begins subtly, as the brain weighs options long before action. Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the…

Grip Strength Reveals Brain Clues Behind Early Psychosis

Summary: Psychosis may start not with hallucinations, but with subtle motor changes like reduced grip strength. A new study reveals that lower grip strength in people with early psychosis is…

Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up. Here’s why parents should be concerned about AI in toys

Credit: Photos Hobby, Unsplash Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the…

Shipboard system that uses limestone and seawater could cut CO₂ emissions by half

Reactor design and evolution of seawater chemistry during an experiment. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr7250 From lab to sea Maritime shipping accounts for nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas…