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April 14, 2025

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Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts

Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...

Riding the AI Wave Toward Rapid, Precise Ocean Simulations

Apr. 3, 2025 — Scientists have developed an AI-powered fluid simulation model that significantly reduces computation time while maintaining accuracy. Their approach could aid offshore power generation, ship design and ocean ...

Hypersonic Simulation in 3D Exposes New Disturbances

Mar. 26, 2025 — At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers were able to observe new disturbances in simulations conducted for the first time in ...

New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles

Mar. 25, 2025 — The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of physicists shows how an unconventional type of quantum computer opens a new door to the world of elementary ...

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New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches

Mar. 20, 2025 — Researchers developed a hybrid AI approach that can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, ...

New Technique Overcomes Spurious Correlations Problem in AI

Mar. 10, 2025 — AI models often rely on 'spurious correlations,' making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can ...

Scientists Develop Open-Source Software for Modeling Soft Materials

Mar. 5, 2025 — A team of researchers created Morpho, an open-source programmable environment that enables researchers and engineers to conduct shape optimization and design for soft materials. Applications can be ...

Using Computer Science to Save the Bees

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have created a system to help beekeepers monitor and analyze the health of their beehives and take corrective actions to prevent colony collapse -- when a majority of the worker bees ...

Foundation AI Model Predicts Postoperative Risks from Clinical Notes

Mar. 4, 2025 — A team unveils a versatile large language model to enhance perioperative ...

AI Tool Mimics Radiologist Gaze to Read Chest X-Rays

Feb. 25, 2025 — Most AI diagnostic tools are black boxes, but the approach allows doctors and patients to understand how the computer reached a ...

Self-Driving Cars Learn to Share Road Knowledge Through Digital Word-of-Mouth

Feb. 27, 2025 — A research team has developed a way for self-driving vehicles to share their knowledge about road conditions indirectly, making it possible for each ...

New Method Searches Through 10 Sextillion Drug Molecules

Feb. 26, 2025 — A recent study shows that computer algorithms can be used to find molecules that can be developed into anti-inflammatory drugs. In the article, the researchers also describe how the same strategy can ...

AI Generates Playful, Human-Like Games

Feb. 26, 2025 — A team of scientists has now created a computer model that can represent and generate human-like goals by learning from how people create games. The work could lead to AI systems that better ...

A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight

Feb. 25, 2025 — How does a tennis player like Carlos Alcaraz decide where to run to return Novak Djokovic's ball by just looking at the ball's initial position? ...

Like Human Brains, Large Language Models Reason About Diverse Data in a General Way

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...

Rapid Environmental Change Can Threaten Even a Peaceful Daisyworld

Feb. 18, 2025 — Using mathematical modeling, researchers have discovered that rate-induced tipping, which can happen if an environment changes too fast, can happen even in Daisyworld, a simple daisy-filled ...

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 ...

User-Friendly System Can Help Developers Build More Efficient Simulations and AI Models

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data ...

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 ...

Towards a New Generation of Human-Inspired Language Models

Jan. 28, 2025 — Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...

Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine: A Key to Analyzing Millions of Individual Cells

Jan. 23, 2025 — Our bodies are made up of around 75 billion cells. But what function does each individual cell perform and how greatly do a healthy person's cells differ from those of someone with a disease? To ...

New Method Forecasts Computation, Energy Costs for Sustainable AI Models

Jan. 13, 2025 — The process of updating deep learning/AI models when they face new tasks or must accommodate changes in data can have significant costs in terms of computational resources and energy consumption. ...

New AI Model TabPFN Enables Faster and More Accurate Predictions on Small Tabular Data Sets

Jan. 9, 2025 — A team has developed a new method that facilitates and improves predictions of tabular data, especially for small data sets with fewer than 10,000 data points. The new AI model TabPFN is trained on ...

New AI Predicts Inner Workings of Cells

Jan. 8, 2025 — In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their ...

Scientists Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Fast-Track Methane Mitigation Strategies in Animal Agriculture

Jan. 8, 2025 — A new study reveals that generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help expedite the search for solutions to reduce enteric methane emissions caused by cows in animal agriculture, which accounts ...

Driving Autonomous Vehicles to a More Efficient Future

Jan. 7, 2025 — Researchers focus on enhancing the aerodynamic performance of autonomous vehicles by reducing drag induced by externally mounted sensors such as cameras and light detection and ranging instruments. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...