Is AI in medicine playing fair?
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly integrates into health care, a new study reveals that all generative AI models may recommend different treatments for the same medical condition based solely on...
View ArticleChatbot opens computational chemistry to nonexperts
A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through chatting.
View ArticleResearchers use AI to improve diagnosis of drug-resistant infections
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to...
View ArticleResearchers demonstrate the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure...
Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK's first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the UK's first long-distance quantum-secured video...
View ArticleTiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver
A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international...
View ArticleUniversal spatiotemporal scaling laws governing daily population flow in...
While the daily ebb and flow of people across a city might seem chaotic, new research reveals underlying universal patterns. A study unveils fundamental spatiotemporal scaling laws that govern these...
View ArticleSimultaneously burying broadband and electricity could be worth millions to...
When it comes to upgrading electrical and broadband infrastructure, new research shows that a 'dig once' approach is nearly 40% more cost effective than replacing them separately. The study also found...
View ArticleStrain 'trick' improves perovskite solar cells' efficiency
Researchers have found a way to dramatically reducing energy loss and boosting efficiency perovskite solar cells by incorporating rubidium using lattice strain -- a slight deformation in the atomic...
View ArticleHopping gives this tiny robot a leg up
A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for...
View ArticleAmplifier with tenfold bandwidth opens up for super lasers
The rapidly increasing data traffic is placing ever greater demands on the capacity of communication systems. A research team now introduces a new amplifier that enables the transmission of ten times...
View ArticleEngineers bring sign language to 'life' using AI to translate in real-time
American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system that...
View Article3D-printed open-source robot offers accessible solution for materials synthesis
FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more scientists.
View ArticleCould LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new multimodal tool combines a large language model with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user's queries in plain...
View ArticleA new robotic gripper made of measuring tape is sizing up fruit and veggie...
It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration,...
View Article3D streaming gets leaner by seeing only what matters
A new approach to streaming technology may significantly improve how users experience virtual reality and augmented reality environments, according to a new study. The research describes a method for...
View ArticleAI models of the brain could serve as 'digital twins' in research
In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images.
View ArticleTech-assisted peer therapy effective for perinatal depression in lower income...
A study has demonstrated the effectiveness of a technology-assisted intervention for perinatal depression.
View ArticleAI threats in software development revealed
Researchers completed one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the risks of using AI models to develop software. In a paper, they demonstrate how a specific type of error could pose a serious...
View ArticleA milestone for laser plasma acceleration
Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health....
View ArticleNew method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data
Researchers devised a way to maintain an AI model's accuracy while ensuring attackers can't extract sensitive information used to train it. The approach is computationally efficient, reducing a...
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