Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...

Researchers create DNA detection tool to stop spread of invasive Asian swamp eels, bullseye snakeheads

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing ...

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work?

Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests ...

An Early Cancer Detection Test, Put To The Test

There’s been talk about liquid biopsies and the promise of using blood samples to test for a wide variety of cancers at once.

Alice & Bob Develops ‘Elevator Codes’ to Slash Error Rates on Cat Qubit Quantum Computers

New pre-print describes codes that “move” logical ancilla qubits up and down to significantly reduce the error rate ...
Forbes

Can The Human Eye Detect A Single Photon? A Biologist Explains

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Wall Street Journal

Newly Single, She Wants to Be Financially Secure—and Splurge a Bit. Can She Afford It?

Carrie Mitchum is starting to design a future different than the one she originally planned. The 52-year-old is recently divorced after a 25-year marriage and wants to ensure her long-term financial ...
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'Jerk' volcano early warning method uses single seismometer to detect magma movement

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...
CNN

Video shows cow using a brush to scratch its back in first described case of tool use in cattle

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...
Futurism

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...
Frontiers

Improved running gait parameter estimation from single foot-mounted IMU data based on refined event detection

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) enable portable gait monitoring, yet their accuracy relies on precise event detection. Conventional algorithms using raw signal peaks often fail during running due to ...
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Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Error Detection in Complex Clinical Documentation: Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Patient Safety in Oncology

We conducted a two-phase evaluation. First, we assessed LLMs (GPT o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro) on 1,000 synthetic clinical hematology/oncology vignettes with ...