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Using artificial intelligence to control digital manufacturing

“Researchers train a machine-learning model to monitor and adjust the 3D printing process to correct errors in real-time. Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing, but figuring out how …

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy

“The space telescope’s powerful infrared gaze provides a new view of how the galaxy has changed over billions of years. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about …

When waste products can build a wall

“Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is costly, but organic chemists at Flinders University are working on more sustainable alternatives – focusing on building materials made from waste products. In another move into the circular economy, researchers from the Chalker …

A key role for quantum entanglement

“A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists, including ETH physicists, has now demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, an approach to quantum key …

AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction

“Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current standard, removing a key roadblock in developing advanced materials for applications such as energy storage and photovoltaics …

Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance

“Running a quantum system backward, then forward in time distinguishes information leaks from the desired information scrambling. Research drawing on the quantum “anti-butterfly effect” solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of …

Artificial skin sweats on command

“The sophisticated artificial skin sweats where and how much the researchers want it to. This was reported in an Angewandte Chemie article by Danqing Liu and first author Yuanyuan Zhan. Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two …

China launches second space station module, Wentian

“China on Sunday launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year’s end. A live feed on state broadcaster CCTV showed the 23-tonne …

Computer simulations aid scientists in gauging battery performance

“A crucial but poorly-studied parameter that dictates battery performance is the migration barrier. It determines the rate at which ions move through an electrode inside the battery, and ultimately the rate at which it charges or discharges. Because it is …

Explained: How to tell if artificial intelligence is working the way we want it to

““Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution. About a decade ago, deep-learning models started achieving superhuman results on all sorts of tasks, from beating world-champion board game players …