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‘Autonomous laboratory’ unearths the best quantum dots for optoelectronic and photonic devices
System known as "SmartDope" identifies highest-performing semiconductor material in just one day rather than years required for conventional techniques
Unifying gravity and quantum mechanics without the need for quantum gravity
Approach uses the random coupling of the quantum and classical worlds
Large language model predicts how to make inorganic compounds
Fine-tuned "MatChat" model provides detailed responses that includes reaction precursors, equations and relative references in the literature
Deep Bayesian experimental design characterizes large-scale quantum systems
Machine learning technique uses a minimum number of measurements
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From cosmic rays to cardiology
Data scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher Azadeh Keivani on physics in healthcare, co-founding an educational non-profit organization and her work in o...
Turbulence to harmony: can physics help detoxify social media?
Physical principles help reveal why heated online polarization emerges – and could point to solutions
The laws of division: physicists probe into the polarization of political opinions
Anna Demming digs into the physics of political polarization
Energy-efficient transistor enables AI analysis of health data within wearable devices
Nanoelectronic device is 100 times more energy efficient than silicon electronics for machine learning classification of medical data
What role should physicists play in AI safety?
This week’s global summit gets Institute of Physics president Keith Burnett musing about what the physics community can bring to the debate
AI and ethics with Animesh Mukherjee
Available to watch now, IOP Publishing explores the ethical ramifications of algorithmic decision-making
Strange metals reveal their secrets
Researchers have developed a universal theory that could help explain the odd behaviours of these materials
Theorists unearth new link between entanglement and classical mechanics
Connecting the wave properties of light to the mechanical properties of point masses could help explain optical phenomena
Evolution may explain values of the fundamental constants
Proposal springs from an analysis of constraints imposed by life's fluid motion
Machine learning brings sharpness and colour to thermal images
HADAR system could be used by self-driving cars
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Insights into “trajectoids” could lead to better qubits and NMR
Where do power surges occur in an electricity grid?
New optimization algorithm could pinpoint the location of potentially damaging "forced oscillations"
The hidden physics in language
Exploring the interdisciplinary field of language dynamics
Model-based battery management systems for current and next-generation batteries
The Electrochemical Society in partnership with BioLogic, TA Instruments – Waters and Hiden Analytical, explores battery management systems for current and next-generation batter...
From bottom-up to top-down: computational scientist Amanda Barnard on the beauty of simulations, machine learning and how the two intersect
Amanda Barnard talks to Hamish Johnston about research in applying machine learning to a range of problems
Approaching infinity…and beyond
Siblings Eugenia Viti and Ivan Viti explore the mathematical limits of the everyday
Regulating AI will slow the pace of science
Developments in AI are moving fast but top-down regulation is not likely to be the best approach
‘More than Moore’ webinar explores the future of neuromorphic and quantum computing
Four experts explore technologies that could play roles in computers of the future
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