AI Generates Relatable Empathy Experiences

Summary: Researchers have developed an AI tool called EmoSync that boosts empathy by tailoring emotional analogies to each user’s personality and life experiences. Unlike traditional empathy tech that assumes uniform…

Pain Perception in Babies Develops in Stages After Birth

Summary: A new study shows that the networks responsible for processing pain in infants develop gradually, with emotional and cognitive pain responses maturing only after birth. Researchers scanned the brains…

Bringing energy and spatial planning together

Credit: CC0 Public Domain For an effective energy transition, we need to think not only about how we generate sustainable energy, but also about the spatial consequences of those choices.…

Researchers are teaching AI to see more like humans

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At Brown University, an innovative new project is revealing that teaching artificial intelligence to perceive things more like people may begin with something as simple as…

Gut Microbiome May Influence Bipolar Medication Response

Summary: A new review has examined how bipolar disorder medications interact with the gut microbiome, revealing important links between treatment response and gut microbial composition. Researchers analyzed 12 studies comparing…

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

Credit: Sanket Mishra from Pexels No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is…

Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting, researchers show

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University has found that websites are covertly using browser…

Semitransparent organic solar cell uses molecular asymmetry for enhanced stability

a) The chemical structures of 4FY and Y6, b) two types of crystal lattices with asymmetric interaction of 4FY, c) illustration of dipole-driven self-assembly structures of 4FY, and d) the…

A new tool predicts when users will reject a new technology

If you can predict that a new technology will not be adopted, then there is a lot of money to be saved. Sarang Shaikh and colleagues have developed a tool…

Two-actuator robot combines efficient ground rolling and spinning flight in one design