4+ hour, 27+ min ago Nighttime is when cameras struggle, but a sensing method called HADAR, short for heat assisted detection and ranging, lets machines see detail in darkness. In tests it recovered texture, distance, and material information at night with accuracy similar to stereo…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world." After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic approach, researchers have now created…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago Mathematicians have finally pinned down the ninth Dedekind number, a 42 digit integer that had been taunting them since 1991. It counts a very specific kind of logical rule, and getting that count required months on a custom supercomputer in Germany. Researchers…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago Take two identical cubes and ask whether one can pass straight through a tunnel drilled in the other. Now extend that question to every well-behaved solid you can build from flat surfaces. What's your answer? In 2025, Jakob Steininger and Sergey…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago The brain's timing during speech comprehension matches the stepwise layers of modern, large language models (LLMs), according to a new study. The evidence comes from direct brain recordings collected while people listened to a single, 30-minute story. The brain recordings…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago A new artificial intelligence system takes on one of science's toughest questions: did this chemistry originate from life or not? Built by researchers at Georgia Tech and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the technology studies meteorites and Earth soils for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago Due to the incredibly fast pace of AI advancement, scientists warn that time is running out to answer a fundamental question: what truly defines consciousness? A recent study argues that distinguishing genuine awareness from mere computation has become urgent as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago Aalto mathematician Mikhail Ganzhinov has pushed the classic "kissing number," meaning the maximum count of equal spheres touching one sphere, into new territory. The gains are small, yet decisive for researchers worldwide today. He reports new best lower totals in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago Probability gives us a steady way to think about data when we don't have all the facts. It's not a substance inside coins or clouds " it's a way to turn incomplete information into action. Scientists use it when they say…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago For the first time ever, scientists have tracked the brain activity of mammals navigating in the wild " not in a lab, but out in the open world. A small group of fruit bats soared across the skies of Latham Island,…...