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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

AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them. The rules page for Google’s OSS VRP states that “as of October 1, 2026, we are no longer accepting product vulnerabilities submitted to t

In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta announced the release of an AI image generator called Muse Image, along with an as-yet unreleased video generator called Muse Video. Elon Musk’s X rolled out something very much like this image generator, which features social media integration, about two years ago, and OpenAI released its video generator via the Sora social media app in September of last year. So I guess from a certain standpoint, a social media slop genera

"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

Credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels There is a growing and urgent need to address global food insecurity. This urgency is underscored by reports from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which states that nearly 828 million people suffer from hunger worldwide. Climate change is further escalating these issues, disrupting traditional farming systems and emphasizing the need for smarter, resource-efficient solutions. But imagine a futur

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

Getty / Futurism A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School has found that a broad selection of popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving. As spotted by Psychology Today, the study found that five out of six popular AI companion apps — including Replika, Chai and Character.AI — use emotionally loaded statements to keep users engaged when they to sign off. After analyzing 1,200 real farewells across

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images; Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Breakthrough As you’re probably well aware by now, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a long history. The two cofounded OpenAI back in 2015 as a nonprofit with an ostensibly altruist mission. But then Musk stormed out of the company three years later. Reportedly, it was because he beefed with Altman’s leadership. There’s been bad blood between t

OpenAI/Futurism Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will build and deploy upwards of 10 gigawatts of AI data centers. Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in the project, an enormous project that could end up requiring an astronomical amount of electricity to run. As Fortune reports, the planned data centers would consume as much as the entire city of New York City — and th

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

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

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: 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

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