Credit: Rachel Voigt, Michigan Engineering. A less wasteful way to train large language models, such as the GPT series, finishes in the same amount of time for up to 30%…
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Crowdsourcing system aims to map wildfires in seconds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The 2023 blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, which claimed more than 100 lives and burned 6,500 acres of land across Maui, is a tragic example of how…
Brain Struggle with Conflicting Information in Schizophrenia
Summary: Researchers have developed a potential diagnostic tool for schizophrenia by observing how patients process conflicting information. By analyzing neural activity between the cortex and thalamus, they found distinct patterns…
Scientists stir bizarre ‘supersolid’ matter for first time
Simulation of quantum vortices superimposed with experimental data. Credit: University of Innsbruck, Austria Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a “supersolid”—which is both…
Tech giants brace for AI revamp, antitrust pullback in Trump’s second term
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Silicon Valley is bracing for a vastly different relationship with the U.S. government as Donald Trump returns to the White House with promises to undo many…
Aquatic robot’s self-learning optimization enhances underwater object manipulation skills
The team’s accessible hardware platform (2000 USD) consists of 2 cameras and a parallel jaw gripper for research and development of underwater visuomotor policy learning. Credit: Liu et al. In…
Repurposed RFID tags allow for battery-free sensing and tracking
Credit: Hana Tobias, Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego Data is power. According to Dinesh Bharadia, an associate professor at UC San Diego in the Department of Electrical and Computer…
New research could optimize the quiz bowl
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A quiz bowl is usually an academic competition in which teams of students, typically from high schools or universities, compete by answering questions across a variety…
Gut Bacteria Modulate Stress Responses Over Time
Summary: New research has unveiled how gut bacteria play a key role in regulating stress by interacting with circadian rhythms, opening possibilities for microbiome-based therapies for mental health. Researchers found…
