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There's a "natural intersection" between what technology can provide and what parents want, says StoryMate developer Dakuo Wang. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University While developing a tool to boost literacy and reading comprehension, researchers at Northeastern University have joined in on a beloved children's activity: storytime. With the understanding that the best storytellers are human—not artificial intelligence—the researchers have built an

Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Chicago. Credit: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that's being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau. GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense co

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An emerging form of surveillance, wireless tapping, explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone's earpiece. With the goal of protecting users' privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to 3 meters, or about 10 fee

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI claims that its new flagship model, GPT-5, marks "a significant step along the path to AGI"—that is, the artificial general intelligence that AI bosses and self-proclaimed experts often claim is around the corner. According to OpenAI's own definition, AGI would be "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work." Setting aside whether this is something humanity should be striv

Credit: Frontiers in Energy (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s11708-025-1022-4 Researchers from Jiangsu University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have revealed a promising solution to the global plastic waste crisis through solar-driven photoreforming. This technology not only transforms plastic waste into hydrogen fuel, but also produces valuable chemicals, according to a recent review published in Frontiers in Energy. The ever-growing accumulation of plastic wast

Security researchers hope stuffing passwords with special characters and numbers will soon be history. Fingerprints, access keys and facial recognition are putting a new squeeze on passwords as the traditional computer security method -- but also running into public hesitancy. "The password era is ending," two senior figures at Microsoft wrote in a July blog post. The tech giant has been building "more secure" alternatives to log in for years -- and has si

A US judge is expected to decide soon whether to order Google to sell its globally popular Chrome browser to weaken the tech firm's dominance in online search. Perplexity AI offered Google on Tuesday $34.5 billion for its popular Chrome web browser, which the internet giant could potentially be forced to sell as part of antitrust proceedings. The whopping sum proposed in a letter of intent by Perplexity is nearly double the value of the startup, which was

Memristors can be fabricated on a large scale and with high throughput by assembling 2D nanosheets from the dispersion into a resistive switching layer using solution processing techniques. Credit: Adapted from International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (2025). DOI: 10.1088/2631-7990/add634 As the demand for data-intensive computing grows, so too does the need for next-generation memory technologies capable of delivering speed, energy efficiency, and s

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally. Economies also suffer from the lack of tracking. We extract, process and then landfill and incinerate trillions of dollars of materials per year. Instead, these could be recirculating, creating new jobs and reducing reliance on global trade. To shi

The catalytic advantages and design dilemma of molten catalysts for CH4 pyrolysis. Credit: Yuanzheng Chen et al Methane (CH4) pyrolysis, a reaction that produces hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide, often utilizes molten media catalysts. A recent research paper published in the journal ACS Catalysis has explored how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping scientists identify these catalysts more efficiently. The industrial implementat

Credit: AI-generated image Artificial intelligence may be marketed as society's great equalizer—transforming businesses, streamlining work and making life easier for all—but for many marginalized Americans, AI doesn't feel like a promise. It feels like a threat. A new University of Michigan study finds that gender minorities, women and disabled individuals—especially those who are neurodivergent or living with mental health conditions—hold significantly mo

The Open Problems in Single-cell Analysis living benchmarking platform. Credit: Nature Biotechnology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02694-w Researchers from more than 50 international institutions have launched Open Problems, a collaborative open-source platform to benchmark, improve, and run competitions for computational methods in single-cell genomics. Co-led by Helmholtz Munich and Yale University, the initiative aims to standardize evaluations, foste

Overall workflow of multi-temporal urban green space vegetation visualization analysis framework. Credit: 2025 Anqi Hu et al., Landscape Ecology The benefits of urban green spaces in cities, in terms of ecological sustainability, climate modification, and human well-being, have been known for decades. More recently, additional economic and restorative payoffs from diverse and colorful plantings have been recognized. Now, a research team from Japan has deve

Credit: Journal of Hazardous Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138735 Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case of I-129), high mobility, and toxicity to living organisms. A Korean research team has successfully used artificial intelligence to discover a new materia

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful catalyst for transforming enterprise productivity. A new study analyzing data from more than 27,000 Chinese listed firms finds that AI significantly enhances what are termed "new quality productive forces"—advanced capabilities built on innovation, digitalization, and industrial upgrades. The researchers identified innovation-drivenness as the key pathway linking AI t

Advancing protein evolution with inverse folding models integrating structural and evolutionary constraints. Credit: IGDB A team of researchers has developed a method that could transform the field of protein engineering. The new approach, called AI-informed Constraints for protein Engineering (AiCE), enables rapid and efficient protein evolution by integrating structural and evolutionary constraints into a generic inverse folding model—without the need to