At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

BOSTON — Across traditions and centuries, contemplatives have described a similar inner movement: the ordinary sense of self loosens, the boundary between “me” and “everything else” grows permeable, ...

AutoResearch is an open source system designed to refine AI systems through automated experimentation, as detailed by David Ondrej. It operates through a structured cycle that includes hypothesis ...

If you've ever taken a taxi, Uber or Lyft in Chicago you might be getting another rideshare option -- and this one drives itself. The autonomous taxi company Waymo announced Wednesday they are ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Tucked away on the third floor of a parking garage near Lake and Wells are about a dozen self-driving vehicles. Waymo announced its fleet is mapping Chicago streets, a critical first ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The autonomous driving company Waymo announced Wednesday they will begin mapping Chicago's streets. The company said they will begin early data collection to lay the groundwork for ...

Waymos are coming to Chicago — but they’re not driving themselves yet. The self-driving taxi company is deploying about 10 vehicles in Chicago to start mapping the city’s streets — thus “laying the ...

In this tutorial, we build a self-organizing memory system for an agent that goes beyond storing raw conversation history and instead structures interactions into persistent, meaningful knowledge ...

Kidney stone disease is a prevalent urological disorder that can result in severe pain, obstruction, and long-term complications if not detected and managed promptly. Traditional diagnostic approaches ...

Surface functionalization using SAM (self-assembled monolayer) coverage is used in a variety of fields, including microfluidics, biosensors, semiconductor processes, biotechnology, medical implants, ...

On Dec. 30, 2025, the Danish postal service delivered its final letter, bringing an end to a tradition that had lasted for more than four centuries. The decision, announced earlier in the year by ...

A novel stacked memristor architecture performs Euclidean distance calculations directly within memory, enabling energy-efficient self-organizing maps without external arithmetic circuits. Memristors, ...