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Scientists design a two-legged robot powered by muscle tissue      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Compared to robots, human bodies are flexible, capable of fine movements, and can convert energy efficiently into movement. Drawing inspiration from human gait, researchers from Japan crafted a two-legged biohybrid robot by combining muscle tissues and artificial materials. This method allows the robot to walk and pivot.

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Chats with AI shift attitudes on climate change, Black Lives Matter      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

People who were more skeptical of human-caused climate change or the Black Lives Matter movement who took part in conversation with a popular AI chatbot were disappointed with the experience but left the conversation more supportive of the scientific consensus on climate change or BLM. This is according to researchers studying how these chatbots handle interactions from people with different cultural backgrounds.

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Computer scientists invent simple method to speed cache sifting      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones.

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Misinformation and irresponsible AI -- experts forecast how technology may shape our near future      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

From misinformation and invisible cyber attacks, to irresponsible AI that could cause events involving multiple deaths, expert futurists have forecast how rapid technology changes may shape our world by 2040.

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What coffee with cream can teach us about quantum physics      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new advancement in theoretical physics could, one day, help engineers develop new kinds of computer chips that might store information for longer in very small objects.

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Offshore wind farms are vulnerable to cyberattacks      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have presented a new study on cyberattack risks to offshore wind farms in Glasgow, United Kingdom. They looked specifically at wind farms that use voltage-source-converter high-voltage direct-current (VSC-HVDC) connections, which are rapidly becoming the most cost-effective solution to harvest offshore wind energy around the world. They found that their complex, hybrid-communication architecture presents multiple access points for cyberattacks.

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Research team breaks down musical instincts with AI      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A research team announced they have identified the principle by which musical instincts emerge from the human brain without special learning using an artificial neural network model.

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Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-gen memory devices      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study outlines progress toward making bulk ferroelectric and antiferroelectric hafnia available for use in a variety of applications, including high-performance computing.

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Researchers unveil new way to counter mobile phone 'account takeover' attacks      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where a hacker gains unauthorized access to online accounts.

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DNA origami folded into tiny motor      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have created a working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a membrane of solid-state silicon nitride. The tiny motor could help spark research into future applications such as building molecular factories or even medical probes of molecules inside the bloodstream.

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Self-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire.

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Researchers create faster and cheaper way to print tiny metal structures with light      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Researchers have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is 480 times faster and 35 times cheaper than the current conventional method. It is a scalable solution that could transform a scientific field long reliant on technologies that are prohibitively expensive and slow. Their method is called superluminescent light projection (SLP).

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Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for work in areas such as artificial pollination, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, micro-fabrication or robotic-assisted surgery. Reporting on their work in the proceedings of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, the mini-bug weighs in at eight milligrams while the water strider weighs 55 milligrams. Both can move at about six millimeters a second.

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Study identifies new findings on implant positioning and stability during robotic-assisted knee revision surgery      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

An innovative study explores the use of robotic-assisted joint replacement in revision knee scenarios, comparing the pre- and post-revision implant positions in a series of revision total knee arthroplasties (TKA) using a state-of-the-art robotic arm system.

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Ultrafast laser pulses could lessen data storage energy needs      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A discovery from an experiment with magnetic materials and ultrafast lasers could be a boon to energy-efficient data storage.

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New deepfake detector designed to be less biased      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New algorithms close the gap in deepfake detectors' accuracy across races and genders.

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'Smart glove' can boost hand mobility of stroke patients      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

This month, a group of stroke survivors in British Columbia will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and ultimately restore use of their limbs and hands. Participants will wear a new groundbreaking 'smart glove' capable of tracking their hand and finger movements during rehabilitation exercises.

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Experiment could test quantum nature of large masses for the first time      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new experiment could in principle test the quantumness of an object regardless of its mass or energy.

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Solid-state qubits: Forget about being clean, embrace mess      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

New findings debunk previous wisdom that solid-state qubits need to be super dilute in an ultra-clean material to achieve long lifetimes. Instead, cram lots of rare-earth ions into a crystal and some will form pairs that act as highly coherent qubits, a new paper shows.