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Revolutionizing Prosthetics – Scientists Develop Bionic Hand That Merges With User’s Nervous and Skeletal Systems

Lead Image: A woman who lost her arm in a farming accident and experienced phantom limb pain, received a groundbreaking bionic prosthesis that integrates with her skeleton and nervous system, significantly improving her quality of life. This transformative technology, pioneered by multidisciplinary researchers, offers an osseointegrated solution that ensures mechanical attachment and reliable control, promising a new era in artificial limb replacement. Credit: Ortiz-Catalan et al. A Swedish woman who lost her right hand due to a farming accident was implanted with a novel human-machine interface into her residual bone, nerves, and muscles. Karin’s life took a dramatic turn when…

Diamond Brilliance at MIT: Quantum Repeaters Revolutionizing Networking

Lead Image: In the realm of quantum communication, the fragility of qubit transmissions resembles the information distortions in the children’s game of telephone. Scientists are now leveraging defects in diamonds to construct quantum repeaters. These repeaters bridge gaps between quantum systems, allowing for more reliable data transfer, with potential applications ranging from artificial intelligence to satellite navigation. This technology for storing and transmitting quantum information over lossy links could provide the foundation for scalable quantum networking. The popular children’s game of telephone is based on a simple premise: The starting player whispers a message into the ear of the next…

AI Game-Changer: Nanoelectronic Devices Uses 100x Less Energy

Lead Image: Northwestern University’s new nanoelectronic device offers energy-efficient, real-time AI tasks without relying on the cloud. Ideal for wearables, it processes data instantly and diagnosed heart conditions with 95% accuracy in tests. This innovation promises faster, efficient, and private health monitoring. AI is so energy-hungry that most data analysis must be performed in the cloud New energy-efficient device enables AI tasks to be performed within wearables This allows real-time analysis and diagnostics for faster medical interventions Researchers tested the device by classifying 10,000 electrocardiogram samples The device successfully identified six types of heartbeats with 95% accuracy Innovative Nanoelectronic Device…

EVEscape: The AI Revolution in Forecasting Viral Variants Before They Emerge

Lead Image: Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence tool, EVEscape, designed to predict the emergence of viral variants. Originally based on a model called EVE, which forecasted the effects of gene mutations on human diseases, EVEscape has been tailored for viral variants and validated with historical SARS-CoV-2 data. This tool could revolutionize vaccine development, surveillance of potential pandemic viruses, and facilitate quicker public health decisions. EVEscape predicts future viral mutations, new variants using evolutionary, biological information. New AI tool called EVEscape uses evolutionary and biological information to predict how a virus…

Emotional Bytes: Can AI Crave a Favorite Food?

Lead Image: Penn State researchers are developing an electronic tongue that simulates the human process of gustation, which could influence AI to make decisions more like humans. This innovation is part of an effort to incorporate the emotional intelligence aspect, often overlooked in AI research. This electronic gustatory system can currently detect all five primary tastes and has numerous potential applications, from AI-driven diets to personalized restaurant offerings. Electronic tongue’ holds promise as possible first step to artificial emotional intelligence. Can artificial intelligence (AI) get hungry? Develop a taste for certain foods? Not yet, but a team of Penn State…