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July 2, 2025

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Your CT Scan Could Reveal a Hidden Heart Risk—and AI Just Learned How to Find It

June 23, 2025 — What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now ...

Nano-Engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today's commercial systems. Driven by the Lab's patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric materials and devices, this innovation paves the ...

Could AI Understand Emotions Better Than We Do?

May 22, 2025 — Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- including ChatGPT -- to the test using emotional intelligence (EI) assessments typically designed for ...

Superconductors: Amazingly Orderly Disorder

May 15, 2025 — A surprising connection has been found, between two seemingly very different classes of superconductors. In a new material, atoms are distributed irregularly, but still manage to create long-range magnetic ...

Cyberbullying in Any Form Can Be Traumatizing for Kids

May 15, 2025 — New research shows that cyberbullying should be classified as an adverse childhood experience due to its strong link to trauma. Even subtle forms -- like exclusion from group chats -- can trigger PTSD-level distress. Nearly 90% of teens experienced ...

Digital Lab for Data And Robot-Driven Materials Science

May 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can autonomously synthesize thin-film samples and ...

New Survey Shows Privacy and Safety Tops List of Parental Concerns About Screen Time

May 13, 2025 — As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, founded by Nationwide Children's Hospital, identifies parents' greatest ...

A Big Data Approach for Battery Electrolytes

May 6, 2025 — A new article puts artificial intelligence and machine learning on the task of finding new, powerful electrolytes for designing next-generation batteries for electric vehicles, phones, laptops and grid-scale energy storage. The paper outlines a new ...

Making AI Models More Trustworthy for High-Stakes Settings

May 4, 2025 — Researchers made a technique that improves the trustworthiness of machine-learning models, which could help improve the accuracy and reliability of AI predictions for high-stakes settings such health ...

Light-Based Data Made Clearer With New Machine Learning Method

May 4, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample ...

How Can We Optimize Solid-State Batteries? Try Asking AI

May 3, 2025 — Researchers have developed a data-driven AI framework that gives scientists a head start by suggesting ideal candidate ...

Finding 'Win-Win-Wins' for Climate, Economics and Justice

Apr. 25, 2025 — In examining how different countries have rolled out climate change mitigation strategies, research has found reasons to be optimistic about preserving our environment while promoting prosperity and ...

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New Method Improves Survival Analysis Power in Clinical and Epidemiological Studies

Apr. 25, 2025 — Innovative statistical method helps determine ideal threshold times in restricted mean survival time ...

Nanophotonic Platform Boosts Efficiency of Nonlinear-Optical Quantum Teleportation

Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain ...

AI Tool Grounded in Evidence-Based Medicine Outperformed Other AI Tools -- And Most Doctors On USMLE Exams

Apr. 23, 2025 — A powerful clinical artificial intelligence tool developed by biomedical informatics researchers has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on all three ...

A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking

Apr. 11, 2025 — 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. ...

Is AI in Medicine Playing Fair?

Apr. 7, 2025 — 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 ...

How Can Science Benefit from AI? Risks?

Apr. 4, 2025 — Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions ...

Powerful New Software Platform Could Reshape Biomedical Research by Making Data Analysis More Accessible

Apr. 3, 2025 — A powerful new software platform is set to transform biomedical research by allowing scientists to conduct complex and customized data analyses ...

New AI Models Possible Game-Changers Within Protein Science and Healthcare

Mar. 31, 2025 — Researchers have developed new AI models that can vastly improve accuracy and discovery within protein science. Potentially, the models will assist the medical sciences in overcoming present ...

Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision

Mar. 28, 2025 — A new method significantly advances 3D imaging of reflective surfaces. The approach integrates techniques known from high-precision optical 3D ...

Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics

Mar. 27, 2025 — To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

A Simple Way to Boost Math Progress

Mar. 24, 2025 — Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn ...

Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors

Mar. 21, 2025 — Researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a ...

'Democratizing Chemical analysis':Chemists Use Machine Learning and Robotics to Identify Chemical Compositions from Images

Mar. 18, 2025 — Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and ...

Web Search Formulas Offer a First Step for Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Mar. 18, 2025 — Scientists are exploring how web search engine technology might also keep the lights on, the water running and the trains ...

Foraging Footballers Suggest How We Come Together to Act as One

Mar. 11, 2025 — Originally described in the context of particles drifting through liquid, Levy walk has been found to accurately describe a very wide range of phenomena, from cold atom dynamics to swarming bacteria. ...

Unlocking the Secrets of Phase Transitions in Quantum Hardware

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ...

Researcher Compares AI, Human Evaluators in Swine Medicine

Mar. 4, 2025 — A research team is studying whether artificial intelligence (AI) could play a supportive role in the evaluation of respiratory disease in ...

Why Scientific Results Vary

Feb. 27, 2025 — Different analytical methods have a significant impact on the results of scientific studies. This is demonstrated by a study conducted by an international research team. In the study, more than 300 ...

New AI System Accurately Maps Urban Green Spaces, Exposing Environmental Divides

Feb. 20, 2025 — A research team has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses satellite imagery to track urban green spaces more accurately than prior methods, critical to ensuring healthy ...

Deep Nanometry Reveals Hidden Nanoparticles

Feb. 20, 2025 — Researchers have developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning. Deep Nanometry can analyze ...

Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality

Feb. 20, 2025 — Dynamic facial projection mapping (DFPM) has reached new heights in speed and accuracy, with the development of a state-of-the-art system with groundbreaking innovations. The first breakthrough ...

Scientists Optimize Biohybrid Ray Development With Machine Learning

Feb. 14, 2025 — The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, announced the publication of research showing an application of ...

AI Speeds Up Nanoparticle Research

Feb. 12, 2025 — A team of researchers succeeded in adapting an AI system to reliably assist with making nanoparticle measurements which speeds up the research process ...

Scientists Harness AI to Help Protect Whales, Advancing Ocean Conservation and Planning

Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict endangered whale habitat, guiding ships along the Atlantic coast to avoid them. The tool is designed to prevent ...

Quantum Theory and Thermodynamics: Maxwell's Demon?

Feb. 7, 2025 — An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

Physicists Measure a Key Aspect of Superconductivity in 'Magic-Angle' Graphene

Feb. 5, 2025 — Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through 'magic-angle' graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts. By determining ...

New Training Approach Could Help AI Agents Perform Better in Uncertain Conditions

Jan. 29, 2025 — AI agents trained in simulations that differ from the environments where they are deployed sometimes perform better than agents trained and deployed in the same environment, research ...

Even Quantum Physics Obeys the Law of Entropy

Jan. 29, 2025 — The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a ...

Make It Worth Weyl: Engineering the First Semimetallic Weyl Quantum Crystal

Jan. 23, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking a breakthrough in a decade-old problem of quantum ...

How Galaxies Are Clustered and Threaded Throughout the Universe

Jan. 21, 2025 — A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the ...