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President Donald Trump has passed away after succumbing to a rabies infection given to him by Vice President J.D. Vance, who also died of rabies. That news comes to us via the AI-generated search results provided by privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo. How exactly DuckDuckGo’s search results came to this conclusion is a bit convoluted, but a familiar enough concept at this juncture for anyone exposed to AI-powered search. It’s one part AI doing a bad

If you were a charter school with a cool half a million to drop, what would you spend it on? Budgeting for multiple new teachers? Perhaps expanding your curriculum or purchasing new teaching materials? Funding some sort of overseas trip to broaden your students’ horizons? Capital expenditure on your campus? Scholarships for underprivileged kids? If you answered any of the above, that’s why you’re not running a charter school. The correct answer is “buying

Amazon Web Services data center is seen on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. Credit: AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File President Donald Trump's plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation's ability to power it. The White House released the "AI Action Plan" Wednesday, vowing to expedite permitting for construction of energy-intensive data centers as it look

Credit: Jamillah Knowles & Digit/Better Images of AI, CC BY-SA Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinize research before it is published. This helps safeguard the accuracy of the written record. Yet problems slip through. A range of grassroots and institutional initiatives work to identify problematic papers, strengthen the peer-review process, and clean up the scientific re

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It can take years for humans to solve complex scientific problems. With AI, it can take a fraction of the time. Dr. Shuiwang Ji, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a leading expert in the emerging field of AI for science and engineering—commonly referred to as AI4Science—is at the forefront of using AI to accelerate scientific problem solving. Ji, along with other

Kendall Mehling, left, and Catie LeDesma, right, with a new kind of atom "interferometer" on the CU Boulder campus. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn't think was possible. The device, a new type of atom "interferometer," could one d

To validate the use of drones for collecting GHG data, the researchers conducted tests around the USP campus in São Carlos. Credit: Antonio Daud Forest fire prevention and control agencies in São Carlos, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, will soon have help from the sky to detect fires more quickly and combat them before they grow out of control and cannot be extinguished. Researchers at the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Engineering

Hamdi Zurqani developed the first high-resolution forest canopy cover dataset for an entire state, providing valuable insights for forest management and conservation to a major economic sector in Arkansas. Credit: CFANR UAM photo by Lonnie Tegels. Satellite data used by archaeologists to find traces of ancient ruins hidden under dense forest canopies can also be used to improve the speed and accuracy to measure how much carbon is retained and released in f

Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Doorbell cameras are already used for home security. But what if they could save you money on your water bill? Researchers from Texas A&M University have developed an innovative irrigation system that combines doorbell cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) to make lawn irrigation more efficient. Their recent paper details this sustainable irrigation system, dubbed ERIC by the researchers. The work is publish

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S. uses for residential, commercial and industrial purposes. But the federal government has recently stopped approving offshore projects in the ocean. Another option is available, though: the Great Lakes, where we are based as water policy researchers, and where state agencies rather than federal officials are the trustees of the lakes. A January 2025 execut

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New technologies usually follow the technology adoption life cycle. Innovators and early adopters rush to embrace new technologies, while laggards and skeptics jump in much later. At first glance, it looks like artificial intelligence is following the same pattern, but a new crop of studies suggests that AI might follow a different course—one with signif

Maya Keely works with a robot as it is programmed to respond to input to create a pizza. Credit: Maya Keely. For the millions of Americans who live with a mobility issue, making a pizza can be a lot more challenging than just choosing between pepperoni or sausage. Now Virginia Tech researchers have developed a robotic arm with novel assistive grippers that can help those with disabilities accomplish complex everyday tasks, including building a pizza. The r

Colorized image of nanoneedles. Credit: Chippani/King's College London A patch containing tens of millions of microscopic nanoneedles could soon replace traditional biopsies, scientists have found. The patch offers a painless and less invasive alternative for millions of patients worldwide who undergo biopsies each year to detect and monitor diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. The research is published in Nature Nanotechnology. Biopsies are among the mos

Self-assembled Maxwell lattice from gold nanocubes with structural degeneracy. Credit: Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02253-3 A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. This work will help scientists and engineers better design metamaterials—substances that possess exotic properties

Credit: Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s11783-025-2020-9 Over the last two decades, the scientific community has made rapid strides in understanding climate change and air pollution—but progress on their combined effects remains limited. Traditional models often gloss over the complex web of interactions between land, sea, and sky, especially when simulating compound events like heat waves coinciding with stagnant air

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> At least that's what investors believe, according to a complex mathematical model economists developed to measure how changes in AI stock prices were reflected in the stock prices of other enterprises, based on the number of software engineers they employed. endif; ?> Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Artificial IntelligenceCareers

"Meschers" can create multi-dimensional versions of objects that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries, such as buildings you might see in an M.C. Escher illustration (left) and objects that are shaded in impossible ways (center and right). Credit: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL, using assets from Pixabay and the researchers M.C. Escher's artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring "impossible objects" that break t

Researchers developed a fully numerical design method using differential equations and genetic algorithms to optimize WPT systems. This approach ensures stable output voltage, high efficiency, and zero-voltage switching across varying loads, overcoming the limitations of traditional analytical-based methods. Credit: Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons Search Repository https://openverse.org/image/458a9b09-d2e7-4156-a3da-fd80fefde04f?q=artificial+intelli

Credit: Michigan State University Imagine a stadium packed with 75,000 fans, all wearing green and white jerseys—except one person in a solid green shirt. Finding that person would be tough. That's how hard it is for scientists to find disease markers—called biomarkers—in the blood. And instead of one stadium, researchers must search through the equivalent of 100,000 stadiums worth of information. To tackle this challenge, a research team from Michigan Sta

Getty / Futurism The CEO of a company that’s pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much about having AI slop shoved down their throats. Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright told the Hollywood Reporter that “people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites.” It’s an incendiary comment, likely aimed to provoke a debate. While the billions the AI industry is s