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April 14, 2025

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AI Tool to Better Assess Parkinson's Disease, Other Movement Disorders

Apr. 14, 2025 — A groundbreaking open-source computer program uses artificial intelligence to analyze videos of patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. The tool, called VisionMD, helps doctors more accurately monitor subtle motor changes, ...

AI Threats in Software Development Revealed

Apr. 8, 2025 — 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 threat to programmers that use AI to help write ...

3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis

Apr. 9, 2025 — FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more ...

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 ...

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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 ...

First Therapy Chatbot Trial Shows AI Can Provide 'Gold-Standard' Care

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers conducted the first clinical trial of an AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that, on average, people with diagnosed mental disorders experienced clinically significant improvements in ...

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 ...

Developing Software for Easy Estimation of 3D Gene Expression Distribution

Mar. 26, 2025 — Researchers have developed 'tomoseqr' -- a new software tool that enables easy estimation of the three-dimensional (3D) spatial distribution of gene expression. Tomoseqr is free to use and has been ...

New Tool Enables Remote Hardware Troubleshooting

Mar. 24, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new tool designed to revolutionize hardware troubleshooting, with the help of 3D phone ...

AI Technology Improves Parkinson's Diagnoses

Mar. 19, 2025 — AI-driven software is 96% accurate at diagnosing ...

First Operating System for Quantum Networks

Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research marks a major step forward in transforming quantum networking from a ...

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 ...

Automatic Cell Analysis With the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 25, 2025 — Identifying and delineating cell structures in microscopy images is crucial for understanding the complex processes of life. This task is called 'segmentation' and it enables a range of applications, ...

E-Mobility: AI System Accelerates the Development of Powertrains

Jan. 30, 2025 — The development of vehicle components is a lengthy and therefore very costly process. Researchers have developed a method that can shorten the development phase of the powertrain of battery electric ...

Why Are Most Companies Failing to Benefit from AI? It's About the People Not the Tech

Jan. 22, 2025 — Successful uptake of new technology is a matter of emotions -- and with 4 in 5 companies saying they're failing to capitalize on its potential, managers need to know how to deal with them, say ...

Mitigating Animal-Vehicle Collisions With Field Sensors, Artificial Intelligence and Ecological Modelling

Dec. 30, 2024 — Using field sensors, various ecological modelling technologies and deep learning algorithms, a French research team has developed a method for mapping the risk of collisions between animals and ...

New Software Unlocks Secrets of Cell Signaling

Dec. 19, 2024 — SMART, a new software package, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology ...

Inside the 'Swat Team' -- How Insects React to Virtual Reality Gaming

Nov. 29, 2024 — Humans get a real buzz from the virtual world of gaming and augmented reality but now scientists have trialled the use of these new-age technologies on small animals, to test the reactions of tiny ...

New Method for Designing Artificial Proteins

Nov. 21, 2024 — Protein design aims to create customized antibodies for therapies, biosensors for diagnostics, or enzymes for chemical reactions. An international research team has now developed a method for ...

Major Development Successes in Diamond Spin Photon Quantum Computers

Oct. 28, 2024 — Lower cooling requirements, longer operating times, lower error rates: Quantum computers based on spin photons and diamond promise significant advantages over competing quantum computing ...

Molecular Data Storage

Oct. 28, 2024 — Increasing amounts of data require storage, often for long periods. Synthetic polymers are an alternative to conventional storage media because they maintain stored information while using less space ...

Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code

Oct. 21, 2024 — The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of ...

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 ...

AI-Trained CCTV in Rivers Can Spot Blockages and Reduce Floods

Oct. 9, 2024 — Smart CCTV systems trained to spot blockages in urban waterways could become an important future tool in flood prevention, new research has ...

New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'Think', Say Scientists

Oct. 9, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how ...

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 ...

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 within cells, biofluids, tissues, and entire ...

Energy-Saving Computing With Magnetic Whirls

Sep. 16, 2024 — Researchers have managed to enhance the framework of Brownian reservoir computing by recording and transferring hand gestures to the system which then used skyrmions to detect these individual ...

Invisibility Cloaks? Wave Scattering Simulation Unlocks Potential for Advanced Metamaterials

Sep. 12, 2024 — Could invisibility cloaks become a reality? New research brings this science fiction concept a step closer, with a breakthrough software package that simulates how waves interact with complex ...

Ehrapy: A New Open-Source Tool for Analyzing Complex Health Data

Sep. 12, 2024 — Scientists have developed an accessible software solution specifically designed for the analysis of complex medical health data. The open-source software called 'ehrapy' enables researchers ...

Using AI to Find the Polymers of the Future

Aug. 19, 2024 — Finding the next groundbreaking polymer is always a challenge, but now researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to shape and transform the future of the ...

Glimpse Into the Nanoworld: Microscope Reveals Tiniest Cell Processes

Aug. 7, 2024 — What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers have succeeded in developing a microscope ...

Genetic Diagnostics of Ultra-Rare Diseases

July 22, 2024 — The majority of rare diseases have a genetic cause. The underlying genetic alteration can be found more and more easily, for example by means of exome sequencing (ES), leading to a molecular genetic ...