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…

Li-Fi technology offers enhanced security and speeds 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

Young Mozambican inventor bringing the blind smart ‘vision’

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Armando Ernesto Chau straps on the futuristic smart glasses that a young Mozambican robotics student is developing in the family dining room, he has a…

New storage platform delivers predictable renewable power regardless of weather conditions

Tanks with electrolyte. Credit: Fraunhofer ICT Europe’s largest vanadium redox flow battery—located at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology—has achieved an important research milestone: In a controlled test, it was…

AI and humans see objects differently: Meaning versus visual features

Chimpanzees and Children Share a Curiosity for Social Drama

Summary: A new study shows that both chimpanzees and young children are drawn to watching social interactions, sometimes even at a cost. When given a choice between viewing videos of…