8+ min ago   (70+ words) Scientists in China have found a way to lock superhard diamond particles into a high-entropy alloy coating so effectively that the material’s wear loss drops by more than 16 percent and its wear volume by over 40 percent compared with the alloy…...

11+ min ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

11+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

26+ min ago   (764+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging has long been the gold standard for peering into the human brain, but it has always demanded one precious commodity that many patients simply cannot spare: time....

26+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

32+ min ago   (55+ words) Online shoppers scrolling through a popular product on a major e-commerce platform may face thousands of customer reviews, each expressing a slightly different opinion about quality, price, delivery, durability, or customer service. Reading them all is impossible, and the automated…...

32+ min ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new review published in the journal Artificial Intelligence Review, the relationship between AI and the social sciences has become a two-way…...

32+ min ago   (84+ words) A sweeping new survey published in Multimedia Tools and Applications maps the full arc of the deepfake era, from the first crude face swaps to today’s diffusion models capable of producing hyper-realistic, temporally coherent synthetic video. The study, led by…...

48+ min ago   (714+ words) A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most urgent questions in modern network science is deceptively simple to state: who started it? A new in-depth survey published in…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (662+ words) Every act of cooking, drying, baking, frying, extruding or three-dimensionally printing a food depends on a deceptively simple physical event: an edible material passing from a fluid-like state to a solid-like one, or back again....