Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074407
Sangeeta S. Chavan;Stavros Zanos
Inflammation: IT's the Body's natural response to injury and infection, but medical science now recognizes it as a double-edged sword. When inflammation becomes chronic, it can contribute to a host of serious health problems, including arthritis, heart disease, and certain cancers. As this understanding has grown, so too has the search for effective ways to manage harmful inflammation. • Doctors and researchers are exploring various approaches to tackle this pervasive health issue, from new medications to dietary interventions. But what if one of the most promising treatments relies on a familiar technology that's been in hospitals for decades? • Enter focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS), a technique that uses sound waves to reduce inflammation in targeted areas of the body. It's a surprising new application for ultrasound technology, which most people associate with prenatal checkups or diagnostic imaging. And FUS may help with many other disorders too, including diabetes and obesity. By modifying existing ultrasound technology, we might be able to offer a novel approach to some of today's most pressing health challenges.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074457
Justin D. Opfermann;Samuel Schmidgall;Axel Krieger
Here's a scene from the not-too-distant future. In a bright, high-tech operating room, a sleek robotic arm stands poised next to the operating table. The autonomous robot won't operate completely alone, but it will assist in the upcoming procedure, performing key tasks independently with enhanced precision and reduced risk.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074456
Evan Ackerman
Night is falling on Cerro Pachón. ¶ Stray clouds reflect the last few rays of golden light as the sun dips below the horizon. I focus my camera across the summit to the westernmost peak of the mountain. Silhouetted within a dying blaze of red and orange light looms the sphinxlike shape of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. ¶ “Not bad,” says William O'Mullane, the observatory's deputy project manager, amateur photographer, and master of understatement. We watch as the sky fades through reds and purples to a deep, velvety black. It's my first night in Chile. For O'Mullane, and hundreds of other astronomers and engineers, it's the culmination of years of work, as the Rubin Observatory is finally ready to go”on sky.”
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027752
Emily Waltz
Wind turbines kill a lot of birds, particularly eagles and other raptors. The exact number is unknown, because many of the world's wind farms don't monitor bird deaths. One mitigation idea to reduce these numbers—and assuage a political argument against wind turbines—is gaining traction: Paint one turbine blade black. Ecologist Roel May spoke with IEEE Spectrum about his 11-year study to reduce raptor deaths, and his surprise at the luke-warm reactions from wind-turbine engineers.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027737
Andrej Zdravkovic
Based on existing code and an engineer's prompts, these assistants can suggest new lines or whole chunks of code, serving as a kind of advanced autocomplete.
基于现有的代码和工程师的提示，这些助手可以建议新的代码行或整个代码块，作为一种高级的自动补全。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027742
Gwendolyn Rak
Not all patents are created equal. While every invention granted a patent in the United States must include something new and useful, a novel piece of technology may be revolutionary or merely incremental; looking at the sheer number of patents a company produces isn't necessarily enough to determine just how influential that company is.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027741
Eliza Strickland
Many people who have spinal cord injuries also have dramatic tales of disaster: a diving accident, a car crash, a constructionsite catastrophe. But Chloë Angus has quite a different story. She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. She managed to drive herself to the hospital, but over the course of the next day she lost all sensation and control of both legs. The doctors found a benign tumor inside her spinal cord that couldn't be removed and told her she'd never walk again. But Angus, ajetsetting fashion designer, isn't the type to take such news lying—or sitting—down.
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