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December 20, 2024

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Plasma Heating Efficiency in Fusion Devices Boosted by Metal Screens

Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists have performed computer simulations confirming a technique that prevents the production of unhelpful electromagnetic waves, boosting the heat put into fusion ...

New Simulation Method Sharpens Our View Into Earth's Interior

Dec. 16, 2024 — How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers has introduced a simulation method that promises new insights into the Earth's core. The method ...

New Algorithm Boosts Multitasking in Quantum Machine Learning

Dec. 10, 2024 — When a quantum computer processes data, it must translate it into understandable quantum data. Algorithms that carry out this 'quantum compilation' typically optimize one target at a time. However, a team has created an algorithm capable of ...

AI Predicts Earth's Peak Warming

Dec. 10, 2024 — Artificial intelligence provides new evidence that rapid decarbonization will not prevent warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. The hottest years of this century are likely to shatter recent ...

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Breakthrough AI Model Can Translate the Language of Plant Life

Dec. 9, 2024 — A pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) powered model able to understand the sequences and structure patterns that make up the genetic 'language' of plants, has been launched by a research ...

New AI Cracks Complex Engineering Problems Faster Than Supercomputers

Dec. 9, 2024 — Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

X-Ray Vision: Seeing Through the Mystery of an X-Ray Emissions Mechanism

Dec. 4, 2024 — Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these occurrences, electrons accelerated between two ...

A New Way to Create Realistic 3D Shapes Using Generative AI

Dec. 4, 2024 — An AI method enables the generation of sharp, high-quality 3D shapes that are closer to the quality of the best 2D image models. Previous approaches typically generated blurry or cartoonish 3D ...

Accelerating Climate Modeling With Generative AI

Dec. 2, 2024 — The algorithms behind generative AI tools like DallE, when combined with physics-based data, can be used to develop better ways to model the Earth's climate. Computer scientists have now used this ...

Digital Twins of the Earth Is a Misleading Term as Computer Models Are Always a Simplified Representation of Reality

Dec. 2, 2024 — The term 'Digital Twin of the Earth' creates the idea of the availability of a highly accurate virtual copy of our planet, enabling researchers to ...

Researchers Develop an Efficient Way to Train More Reliable AI Agents

Nov. 22, 2024 — Researchers developed an efficient approach for training more reliable reinforcement learning models, focusing on complex tasks that involve variability. This could enable the leverage of ...

AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game

Nov. 12, 2024 — Linguistics and computer science researchers have discovered some of the root causes of why AI large language models perform poorly in human-like ...

Next Step in Light Microscopy Image Improvement

Nov. 19, 2024 — It is the computational processing of images that reveals the finest details of a sample placed under all kinds of different light microscopes. Even though this processing has come a long way, there ...

Machine Learning and Supercomputer Simulations Help Researchers to Predict Interactions Between Gold Nanoparticles and Blood Proteins

Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood proteins. The studies ...

'Walk This Way': How Ants Create Trails to Multiple Food Sources

Nov. 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully ...

AI Method Can Spot Potential Disease Faster, Better Than Humans, Study Finds

Nov. 14, 2024 — A 'deep learning' artificial intelligence model can identify pathology, or signs of disease, in images of animal and human tissue much faster, and often more accurately, than people. The ...

NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate

Nov. 14, 2024 — Scientists have advanced their NeuroMechFly model, simulating fruit fly movement in the real world. With integrated vision and smell, NeuroMechFly v2 helps us understand brain-body coordination, ...

Up to 30% of the Power Used to Train AI Is Wasted: Here's How to Fix It

Nov. 7, 2024 — A less wasteful way to train large language models, such as the GPT series, finishes in the same amount of time for up to 30% less energy, according to a ...

Could Crowdsourcing Hold the Key to Early Wildfire Detection?

Nov. 7, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on ...

A New Approach to Modeling Complex Biological Systems

Nov. 6, 2024 — Biological engineers developed a computational approach to extracting useful information from large biological datasets. They showed they could unravel interactions that determine how the immune ...

Despite Its Impressive Output, Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World

Nov. 5, 2024 — Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, researchers find. This means these models ...

A Faster, Better Way to Train General-Purpose Robots

Oct. 28, 2024 — Inspired by large language models, researchers developed a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new ...

New AI Model Could Make Power Grids More Reliable Amid Rising Renewable Energy Use

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers use AI to manage the growing complexity of modern power ...

Making It Easier to Verify an AI Model's Responses

Oct. 22, 2024 — A new system helps human fact-checkers validate the responses generated by a large language model. By speeding validation time by 20 percent, the system could improve manual verification and help ...

Deep Learning Illuminates Atmospheric Blocking Events of Past, Future

Oct. 17, 2024 — Atmospheric blocking events are persistent, high-impact weather patterns that occur when large-scale high-pressure systems become stationary and divert the jet stream and storm tracks for days to ...

New Research Reveals How Large-Scale Adoption of Electric Vehicles Can Improve Air Quality and Human Health

Oct. 15, 2024 — A new study suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits. The research team used computer simulations to show that ...

Simulation Mimics How the Brain Grows Neurons, Paving the Way for Future Disease Treatments

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...

Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?

Oct. 9, 2024 — Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave ...

New AI Models of Plasma Heating Lead to Important Corrections in Computer Code Used for Fusion Research

Oct. 9, 2024 — New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also ...

AI Speeds Up the Discovery of Energy and Quantum Materials

Oct. 7, 2024 — Unearthing new LEDs, solar cells, and photodetectors requires extensive knowledge surrounding the optical properties of materials. Calculating these takes time and resources. Yet researchers unveiled ...

AI and Quantum Mechanics Team Up to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Oct. 7, 2024 — SMU have created SmartCADD. This open-source virtual tool combines artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics and Computer Assisted Drug Design (CADD) techniques to speed up the screening of chemical ...

Stopping Off-the-Wall Behavior in Fusion Reactors

Oct. 7, 2024 — New experimental results suggest that sprinkling boron into a tokamak could shield the wall of the fusion vessel and prevent atoms from the wall from getting into the plasma. A new computer modeling ...

Quantum Researchers Come Up With a Recipe That Could Accelerate Drug Development

Oct. 3, 2024 — Mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules. Their discovery brings us closer to being able to predict how new drugs ...

deepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations

Oct. 2, 2024 — deepSPACE isn't a futuristic film, a new videogame or the next season of a classic TV series. In fact, the new design software developed by an aerospace engineer isn't about outer space at ...