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June 9, 2025

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How a Smartphone App Could Transform Mental Health Care

Apr. 23, 2025 — Smartphones may often feel like a source of stress, feeding us an endless stream of bad news and social comparison. But what if they could also be the solution? A team of researchers believes they can be. The team has developed a smartphone app that ...

New Method Improves Survival Analysis Power in Clinical and Epidemiological Studies

Apr. 24, 2025 — Innovative statistical method helps determine ideal threshold times in restricted mean survival time ...

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 and to what extent they can be generalized. A ...

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. And now, a new study has found Levy walk in the ...

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 scientists compared 174 independent analyses of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leap in Modelling Human Impact on Climate May Lead to Early Warning of Climate Disasters

Dec. 10, 2024 — Mathematicians have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time. They have shown how to separate the 'signal' of human-made climate change from the ...

Hybrid Theory Offers New Way to Model Disturbed Complex Systems

Dec. 6, 2024 — In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take either a bottom-up or top-down approach. But in ...

Behavioral Analysis in Mice: More Precise Results Despite Fewer Animals

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers are utilizing artificial intelligence to analyze the behavior of laboratory mice more efficiently and reduce the number of animals in ...

Persistent Problems With AI-Assisted Genomic Studies

Nov. 4, 2024 — Researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields of genetics and medicine can lead to flawed conclusions about the connection between genes and physical characteristics, including risk factors for diseases ...

Understanding How Mutations Affect Diseases

Oct. 28, 2024 — The human genetic code is fully mapped out, providing scientists with a blueprint of the DNA to identify genomic regions and their variations responsible for diseases. Traditional statistical tools effectively pinpoint these genetic 'needles in the ...

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Magnetic Whirl Simulation in Real Time

Jan. 30, 2025 — Skyrmions are nanometer- to micrometer-sized magnetic whirls that exhibit particle-like properties and can be moved efficiently by electrical currents. These properties make skyrmions an excellent ...

New Benchmark Helps Solve the Hardest Quantum Problems

Oct. 17, 2024 — Predicting the behavior of many interacting quantum particles is a complicated process but is key to harness quantum computing for real-world applications. Researchers have developed a method for ...

AI Model That Checks for Skin Cancer Shows Promise

Oct. 17, 2024 — Scientists developed a way of using artificial intelligence to check for skin cancer with the AI tool, which was trained on data from 53,601 skin lesions from 25,105 patients, outperforming existing ...

Atomic-Level Mechanism in Polycrystalline Materials

Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers show that for the first time they have achieved atomic-scale observations of grain rotation in polycrystalline materials. Using state-of-the-art microscopy tools, the scientists were able ...

Researchers Acquire and Analyze Data Through AI Network That Predicts Maize Yield

Sep. 24, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight, scientists from agricultural, biological and ...

Research Quantifying 'Nociception' Could Help Improve Management of Surgical Pain

Sep. 23, 2024 — New statistical models based on rigorous physiological data from more than 100 surgeries provide objective, accurate measures of 'nociception,' the ...

New Data Science Tool Greatly Speeds Up Molecular Analysis of Our Environment

Sep. 20, 2024 — A research team has developed a computational workflow for analyzing large data sets in the field of metabolomics, the study of small molecules found ...

Networks of Beliefs Theory Integrates Internal and External Dynamics

Sep. 19, 2024 — The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Aug. 23, 2024 — A team of researchers has created a digital pathology platform based on artificial intelligence. The platform uses new algorithms developed by the team and enables fully automated analysis of tissue ...

Research Shows Statistical Analysis Can Detect When ChatGPT Is Used to Cheat on Multiple-Choice Chemistry Exams

Aug. 14, 2024 — Research revealed how the use of ChatGPT to cheat on general chemistry multiple-choice exams can be detected through specific statistical ...

Modern Behavior Explains Prehistoric Economies

Aug. 1, 2024 — What if the 'Market Economy' always existed? Archaeologists tried to answer this question by researching how much Bronze Age people used to spend to sustain their daily lives. Their results ...

When Allocating Scarce Resources With AI, Randomization Can Improve Fairness

July 26, 2024 — Researchers argue that, in some situations where machine-learning models are used to allocate scarce resources or opportunities, randomizing decisions in a structured way may lead to fairer ...

When to Trust an AI Model

July 12, 2024 — A new technique enables huge machine-learning models to efficiently generate more accurate quantifications of their uncertainty about certain predictions. This could help practitioners determine ...

Researchers Introduce Generative AI for Databases

July 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI ...

Diagnosing Different Forms of Dementia Now Possible Using Artificial Intelligence

July 8, 2024 — Ten million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year but the presence of different dementia forms and overlapping symptoms can complicate diagnosis and delivery of effective treatments. Now ...

Balancing Act: Novel Wearable Sensors and AI Transform Balance Assessment

June 26, 2024 — Traditional methods to assess balance often suffer from subjectivity, aren't comprehensive enough and can't be administered remotely. They also are expensive and require specialized ...

New Machine Learning Method Can Better Predict Spine Surgery Outcomes

June 3, 2024 — Researchers combine AI and mobile health to predict recovery from lumbar spine ...

High Groundwater Depletion Risk in South Korea in 2080s

May 30, 2024 — Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion ...

Improving Statistical Methods to Protect Wildlife Populations

May 21, 2024 — In human populations, it is relatively easy to calculate demographic trends and make projections of the future if data on basic processes such as births and immigration is known. The data, given by ...

Scientists Use Generative AI to Answer Complex Questions in Physics

May 16, 2024 — Researchers used generative AI to develop a physics-informed technique to classify phase transitions in materials or physical systems that is much more efficient than existing machine-learning ...

Simulating Diffusion Using 'Kinosons' and Machine Learning

May 14, 2024 — Researchers have recast diffusion in multicomponent alloys as a sum of individual contributions, called 'kinosons.' Using machine learning to compute the statistical distribution of the ...

Artificial Intelligence Tool Detects Male-Female-Related Differences in Brain Structure

May 14, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs that process MRI results show differences in how the brains of men and women are organized at a cellular level, a new study shows. These variations were ...

Century of Statistical Ecology Reviewed

May 14, 2024 — A special review examines highly-cited papers in statistical ecology. The review, which covers a century of research, details how models and concepts have evolved alongside increasing computational ...

New Work Extends the Thermodynamic Theory of Computation

May 13, 2024 — Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the ...

AI Deciphers New Gene Regulatory Code in Plants and Makes Accurate Predictions for Newly Sequenced Genomes

Apr. 26, 2024 — Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation and its variation between plant species and ...

How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...

How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation

Apr. 8, 2024 — Scientists have developed an automated workflow that could accelerate the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and other useful products. The new automated approach could analyze chemical reactions ...

How Do Neural Networks Learn? A Mathematical Formula Explains How They Detect Relevant Patterns

Mar. 11, 2024 — Neural networks have been powering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including the large language models that are now being used in a wide range of applications, from finance, to human ...

Network of Quantum Sensors Boosts Precision

Mar. 4, 2024 — Quantum sensor technology promises even more precise measurements of physical quantities. A team has now compared the signals of up to 91 quantum sensors with each other and thus successfully ...

Researchers Show Classical Computers Can Keep Up With, and Surpass, Their Quantum Counterparts

Feb. 9, 2024 — A team of scientists has devised means for classical computing to mimic a quantum computing with far fewer resources than previously thought. The scientists' results show that classical ...