Charge transfer, or the movement of electrons, can occur either within a molecule or between two molecules. Combining the two types of charge transfer is challenging. Now, scientists from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, have developed a hybrid charge transfer crystal using a novel pyrazinacene molecule. This crystal is capable of reacting with naphthalene to […]
Found in knee replacements and bone plates, aircraft components, and catalytic converters, the exceptionally strong metals known as multiple principal element alloys (MPEA) are about to get even stronger through to artificial intelligence. Sanket Deshmukh, associate professor in chemical engineering, and his team have designed a new MPEA with superior mechanical properties using a data-driven
Since the AI floodgates opened with the release of ChatGPT in Nov 2022, the industry has grown and expanded to cover nearly every tech company today. According to Crunchbase, a little over $100 billion was invested into AI and AI companies. While many of you have been vocal about being tired about hearing about AI,
Fresh drinking water is a vital yet limited resource that will only grow scarcer over the next few years, according to the World Resources Institute. Desalination, the process of removing salt from water, is an established method used to increase the fresh water supply, especially in coastal regions. However, current desalination systems are dependent on
While breastfeeding has many benefits for a mother and her baby, it has one major drawback: It’s incredibly difficult to know how much milk the baby is consuming. To take the guesswork out of breastfeeding, an interdisciplinary team of engineers, neonatologists and pediatricians at Northwestern University has developed a new wearable device that can provide
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by providing them with relevant external context. For example, when using a RAG system for a question-answer (QA) task, the LLM receives a context that may be a combination of information from multiple sources, such as public webpages, private document corpora, or knowledge graphs. Ideally, the
We all leave traces behind: emails, text messages, photos, voice notes. But what if you could go one step further? What if your loved ones could still talk to you after you’re gone? Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, digital immortality is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It’s becoming technically possible to create custom AIs
The United States population is older than it has ever been. Today, the country’s median age is 38.9, which is nearly a decade older than it was in 1980. And the number of adults older than 65 is expected to balloon from 58 million to 82 million by 2050. The challenge of caring for the
When you reach out your hand to grasp an object like a bottle, you generally don’t need to know the bottle’s exact position in space to pick it up successfully. But as EPFL researcher Kai Junge explains, if you want to make a robot that can pick up a bottle, you must know everything about
