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2-Apr-2025

Increased utilization of overtime and agency nurses and patient safety

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that both nurse overtime and nurse agency hours are associated with increased rates of pressure ulcers, a measure that is one of the most sensitive to nursing care. In future research, hospitals could use their own data to track safe thresholds.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

2-Apr-2025

Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new large language model framework teaches LLMs to use an optimization solving algorithm to resolve complex, multistep planning tasks. With the LLMFP framework, someone can input a natural language description of their problem and receive a plan to reach their desired goal.

Funder: Office of Naval Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

2-Apr-2025

A router for photons

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers.

Journal: Nature Physics

1-Apr-2025

USC researchers develop first-ever quantum filter to isolate entangled states with high precision

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a groundbreaking advance that could accelerate the development of quantum technologies, researchers at the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Advanced Computing have demonstrated the first optical filter capable of isolating and preserving quantum entanglement—a mysterious but powerful phenomenon at the heart of quantum computing, communication, and sensing. This work, published in Science, opens the door to compact, high-performance entanglement systems that can be integrated into quantum photonic circuits, enabling more reliable quantum computing architectures and communication networks.

Journal: Science
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

1-Apr-2025

New study achieves major advance towards fault-tolerant quantum computing

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published this week in Nature Nanotechnology demonstrates significantly enhanced stability of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in engineered quantum systems. This research, conducted by a team from the University of Oxford, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Quantum Machines represents a major step towards fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

1-Apr-2025

Dr. Agnes Szmolenszky appointed executive director and member of the Board of Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF)

Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Business Announcement

The Foundation Council of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) has unanimously appointed Dr. Agnes Szmolenszky as Executive Director and Member of the HLFF Board, effective April 1, 2025.

Meeting: 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

1-Apr-2025

Artificial intelligence is an effective tool in exploring corporate reporting

University of Vaasa
Reports and Proceedings

Corporate accounting reports contain extensive data on various themes, and machine learning methods as well as AI-based language models offer entirely new possibilities for exploring this data. Doctoral researcher Essi Nousiainen from the University of Vaasa, Finland, has developed new machine learning-based methods that can be used to examine corporate reporting related to, among other things, responsibility, innovation, and blockchain.

Funder: Liikesivistysrahasto, Evald ja Hilda Nissin Säätiö