“Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic computing prototype to serve real-time machine-learning inference requests.

The system could improve image quality in video streaming or help autonomous vehicles identify road hazards in real-time.

In a first, researchers have observed how lithium ions flow through a battery interface, which could help engineers optimize the material’s design.

Researchers use synthetic data to improve a model’s ability to grasp conceptual information, which could enhance automatic captioning and question-answering systems.

The new approach could lead to intranasal vaccines for Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases.

The findings, based on a single electrochemical process, could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement.

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change.

A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons, and improving cognition in preclinical tests.

By synchronizing media streams transmitted from the cloud to two devices, researchers could improve cloud gaming and AR/VR applications.

Researchers compared a pair of superficially similar motor neurons in fruit flies to examine how their differing use of the same genome produced distinctions in form and function.