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Experts in virtual reality locomotion have developed a new resource that analyses all the different possibilities of locomotion currently available. Moving around in a virtual reality world can be very different to walking or employing a vehicle in the real world and new approaches and techniques are continually being developed to meet the challenges of different … [Read more...] about Locomotion Vault will help guide innovations in virtual reality locomotion

Marilyn Monroe famously sang that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but they are also very popular with quantum scientists -- with two new research breakthroughs poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology, improve scalability, and dramatically reduce manufacturing costs. While silicon is traditionally used for computer and mobile phone … [Read more...] about Future sparkles for diamond-based quantum technology: Two research breakthroughs are poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology

Psychology researchers at UC Santa Cruz have found that playing games in virtual reality creates an effect called "time compression," where time goes by faster than you think. Grayson Mullen, who was a cognitive science undergraduate at the time, worked with Psychology Professor Nicolas Davidenko to design an experiment that tested how virtual reality's effects on a game … [Read more...] about Virtual reality warps your sense of time: Psychology research demonstrates unique ‘time compression’ effect of virtual reality

Log on to any app store, and parents will find hundreds of options for children that claim to be educational. But new research suggests these apps might not be as beneficial to children as they seem. A new study analyzed some of the most downloaded educational apps for kids using a set of four criteria designed to evaluate whether an app provides a high-quality educational … [Read more...] about Top educational apps for children might not be as beneficial as promised

A new study by the University of Georgia revealed that more college students change majors within the STEM pipeline than leave the career path of science, technology, engineering and mathematics altogether. Funded by a National Institutes of Health grant and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and done in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, the … [Read more...] about New research may explain shortages in STEM careers: The study focuses on students who change plans within the pipeline

People may be reluctant to give their personal information to artificial intelligence (AI) systems even though it is needed by the systems for providing more accurate and personalized services, but a new study reveals that the manner in which the systems ask for information from users can make a difference. In a study, Penn State researchers report that users responded … [Read more...] about How AIs ask for personal information is important for gaining user trust

A new theorem from the field of quantum machine learning has poked a major hole in the accepted understanding about information scrambling. "Our theorem implies that we are not going to be able to use quantum machine learning to learn typical random or chaotic processes, such as black holes. In this sense, it places a fundamental limit on the learnability of unknown processes," … [Read more...] about Quantum machine learning hits a limit

A new discovery led by Princeton University could upend our understanding of how electrons behave under extreme conditions in quantum materials. The finding provides experimental evidence that this familiar building block of matter behaves as if it is made of two particles: one particle that gives the electron its negative charge and another that supplies its magnet-like … [Read more...] about New evidence for electron’s dual nature found in a quantum spin liquid

Artificial intelligence (AI) learning machines can be trained to solve problems and puzzles on their own instead of using rules that we made for them. But often, researchers do not know what rules the machines make for themselves. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Peter Koo developed a new method that quizzes a machine-learning program to figure out what … [Read more...] about Making AI algorithms show their work

A new strategy for capturing the 3D shape of the human face draws on data from sibling pairs and leads to identification of novel links between facial shape traits and specific locations within the human genome. Hanne Hoskens of the Department of Human Genetics at Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS … [Read more...] about A sibling-guided strategy to capture the 3D shape of the human face