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Month: April 2025

Technology

Self-healing lithium battery stretches, survives punctures and cuts

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

A multidisciplinary team at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium battery that remains stable after 500 […]

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Education

Educators find creative work-arounds to new laws that restrict what they can teach

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

An onslaught of executive orders from President Donald Trump aim to restrict how and what educators can teach America’s children.This article was originally published on this website.

Math

Emotions and levels of threat affect communities’ resilience during extreme events

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

Tightly connected communities tend to be more resilient when facing extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or wildfires, says Jose Ramirez-Marquez, who develops metrics to analyze, quantify and ultimately improve performance of urban systems.This […]

Technology

Ambisonics algorithm helps create rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Surround-sound speakers can immerse you in a multimedia experience, but what if there was a speaker that could completely re-create a three-dimensional soundscape?This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language

April 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary—as well as the ways we use it—grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact with others with specificity and intention. Accordingly, our word […]

Education

New AP computer science course drives surge in participation among underrepresented students

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

In a bid to engage more U.S. high school students in computer science, the College Board introduced a new Advanced Placement (AP) course in 2016: Computer Science Principles, which explores a range of topics in […]

Education

Adults quickly tune in to rhythm and melody of a new language, but early exposure to writing may hinder this skill

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

A new study led by Dr. Kateřina Chládková of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University reveals that adults can quickly tune in to the melodic and rhythmic features—known as prosody—of unfamiliar languages, but that […]

Education

In science communication, realistic avatars may foster more trustworthiness than cartoon-like ones

April 15, 2025 Phys Org

On TikTok there are exceptional “testimonials” like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have garnered millions of views. This is just one of many examples where AI-generated avatars are used to […]

Technology

Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help

April 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term “neural” describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able […]

Computers

Over-training large language models may make them harder to fine-tune

April 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

A small team of AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University and Princeton University, all in the U.S., has found that if large language models are over-trained, it might make them harder […]

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