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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2025 08:09 ET (17-Jun-2025 12:09 GMT/UTC)

Virginia Tech researchers publish revolutionary blueprint to fuse wireless technologies and AI

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Virginia Tech researchers say a true revolution in wireless technologies is only possible through endowing the system with the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) that can think, imagine, and plan akin to humans. Doing so will allow networks to break free from traditional enablers, deliver unprecedented quality, and usher in a new phase of the AI evolution.

Journal: Proceedings of the IEEE

Wayne State University research making strides in autonomous vehicle and machine systems to make them safer, more effective

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

A grant to Wayne State University from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is opening new doors for researchers and students to explore the future of autonomous vehicles, machines and drones.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Zhou conducting GPU modeling research

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Keren Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for: “GPU Modeling Research of Smart Modeling and Simulation for HPC (SMASH).”

Funder: Brookhaven National Laboratory

New high-definition pictures of the baby universe

Princeton University
Meeting Announcement

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has put the standard model of cosmology through a rigorous new set of tests and show it to be remarkably robust. The new images of the early universe, which show both the intensity and polarization of the earliest light with unprecedented clarity, reveal the formation of ancient, consolidating clouds of hydrogen and helium that later developed into the first galaxies and stars.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Meeting: Global Physics Summit 2025

Reusing old oil and gas wells may offer green energy storage solution

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by researchers at Penn State found that taking advantage of natural geothermal heat in depleted oil and gas wells can improve the efficiency of one proposed energy storage solution: compressed-air energy storage (CAES).

Journal: Journal of Energy Storage
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

Cornell University
Reports and Proceedings

A Cornell University-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language (ASL).

AI food scanner turns phone photos into nutritional analysis

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Reports and Proceedings

An AI system being developed by NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers can tell the calorie count, fat content, and nutritional value of a meal just from a photo.