EurekAlert! In the Spotlight

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS ‘speak’ in real time

University of California - Davis Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UC Davis researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice as a person tries to speak — effectively creating a digital vocal tract.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program, NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, ALS Association, Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain, NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Department of Veterans' Affairs

11-Jun-2025

Digital Twin technology simulates strawberry farm, boosts AI tools and cuts costs

University of Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While strawberry production runs from November through April in Florida, digital twin technology lets scientists simulate the growth of the fruit year-round, allowing research to proceed year-round.

Journal: AgriEngineering

11-Jun-2025

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

European Space Agency
Reports and Proceedings

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space weather.

11-Jun-2025

How we really judge AI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds people are more likely to approve of the use of AI in situations where its abilities are perceived as superior to humans’ and where personalization isn’t necessary.

Journal: Psychological Bulletin

11-Jun-2025

Electrode arrays for detecting and modulating deep brain neural information in primates: A review

Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A review paper by scientists at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences summarized electrode array devices used for electrophysiological and electrochemical detections in primates’ deep brains.

The new review paper, published on May. 2 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, focus on electrode arrays for detecting and modulating deep brain neural information in primates.

Journal: Cyborg and Bionic Systems

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First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS ‘speak’ in real time

Digital Twin technology simulates strawberry farm, boosts AI tools and cuts costs

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

How we really judge AI

Electrode arrays for detecting and modulating deep brain neural information in primates: A review

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