Scientists have developed the world's first mind-reading AI that translates brainwaves into readable text. It works using a sensor-covered helmet that looks at specific electrical activity in the brain as the wearer thinks, and turns these into words. The revolutionary tech was pioneered by a team at the University of Technology Sydney, who say it could revolutionize care for patients who have become mute due to a stroke or paralysis. A demonstration video shows a human subject thinking about a sentence shown on a screen, which then switched to what the AI model decoded - and the results are nearly a perfect match. The team also believes the innovation will allow for seamless control of devices, such as bionic limbs and robots, allowing humans to give directions just by thinking of them.

Researchers have revealed the first ever liquid magnet that can stay magnetic even when changing its shape -- an attractive prospect for developing fluid robots. The liquid is made of nano-scale particles of metal floating in solution -- which normally would only behave as a magnet when in the presence of a magnetic field. But by using a special oil-polymer mixture, the team succeeded in jamming the particles so close together at the surface of the liquid that they can stay magnetic. The pioneering discovery changes our understand of magnetic materials and could find manifold practical applications in the future. Researchers have revealed the first ever liquid magnet that can stay magnetic even when changing its shape -- an attractive prospect for developing fluid robots. University of Massachusetts material scientist Thomas Russell and his colleagues spent seven years developing a simple method to transform so-called'paramagnetic ferrofluids' -- plain metal particles floating in a liquid -- into permanent magnets.