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Experiment: Make the fastest rubber band paddleboat
With a rubber band and some cardboard, you can build your own paddleboat to speed across the surface of a pool.
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- Artificial Intelligence
DeepSeek pioneers a new way for AI to ‘reason’
Chatbots answer one question at a time. Reasoning agents work through a problem step by step. DeepSeek makes this new type of AI far less costly.
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A robotic hand helps piano players’ fingers move faster
Robotic devices like this might someday help musicians, gamers, athletes or even surgeons improve their dexterity.
- Math
His love of math led to a career in quantum computing
James Whitfield began his career when quantum computing was still in its infancy. Today, he’s helping to make it more accessible to educators, researchers and others.
- Tech
Meet 5 types of robots with living body parts
Creature-machine mash-ups seem weird or even creepy. But biohybrids that make use of living tissue could be the future of robotics.
- Tech
High-speed lasers write data — to last millennia — inside glass
Project Silica is advancing a new way to store data — potentially forever. Some students plan to use this new media to send a message into space.
- Artificial Intelligence
Scientists Say: Large language model
Large language models, or LLMs, are language-processing systems that underpin advanced AI technologies such as ChatGPT.
- Computing
This computer scientist uses math to help people be treated fairly
Ariel Procaccia has designed computer algorithms that help split up credit on group projects, distribute donations, pick citizens’ assemblies and more.
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This teen engineer’s device sniffs out common food allergens
Inspired by his own severe food allergies, Thermo Fisher JIC finalist Samvith Mahadevan built a device to protect people from allergen exposure.
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For teens, virtual reality worlds aren’t all fun and games
More than a third of surveyed teens who used VR headsets reported they had experienced hate speech, bullying or harassment in virtual reality environments.
