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June 13, 2025

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Study Deepens Understanding of Cell Migration, Important for Potential Medical Advances

May 28, 2025 — A new study integrated mathematical modeling with advanced imaging to discover that the physical shape of the fruit fly egg chamber, combined with chemical signals, significantly influences how cells ...

In Nature's Math, Freedoms Are Fundamental

May 28, 2025 — Scientists have developed a unified theory for mathematical parameters known as gauge freedoms. Their new formulas will allow researchers to interpret research results much faster and with greater confidence. The development could prove fundamental ...

A Faster, More Reliable Method for Simulating the Plasmas Used to Make Computer Chips

May 22, 2025 — Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...

Breakthrough AI Model Could Transform How We Prepare for Natural Disasters

May 22, 2025 — From deadly floods in Europe to intensifying tropical cyclones around the world, the climate crisis has made timely and precise forecasting more essential than ever. Yet traditional forecasting methods rely on highly complex numerical models ...

AI Is Good at Weather Forecasting. Can It Predict Freak Weather Events?

May 22, 2025 — Scientists found that neural networks cannot yet forecast 'gray swan' weather events, which might not appear in existing training data but could still happen -- like 200-year floods or massive ...

Robots Learning Without Us? New Study Cuts Humans from Early Testing

May 19, 2025 — Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social robots without needing human participants, ...

With Evolutionary AI, Scientists Find Hidden Keys for Better Land Use

May 19, 2025 — A new AI decision making tool effectively balances various complex trade-offs to recommend ways of maximizing carbon storage, minimizing economic disruptions and helping improve the environment and people's everyday lives. It uses evolutionary AI, a ...

New Model for More Accurate Landslide Prediction

May 16, 2025 — Engineers have developed a groundbreaking computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, sands and powders. By integrating the dynamic interactions among particles, air and water phases, this state-of-the-art system ...

Study Shows Vision-Language Models Can't Handle Queries With Negation Words

May 14, 2025 — Researchers found that vision-language models, widely used to analyze medical images, do not understand negation words like 'no' and 'not.' This could cause them to fail unexpectedly when asked to retrieve medical images that contain certain objects ...

Advancing Electrocatalyst Discovery Through the Lens of Data Science

May 8, 2025 — Data science has revolutionized the hunt for high-performing catalysts, enabling scientists to quickly identify and test suitable ...

Text-to-Video AI Blossoms With New Metamorphic Video Capabilities

May 5, 2025 — Computer scientists have developed a new AI text-to-video model that learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse ...

Making AI Models More Trustworthy for High-Stakes Settings

May 1, 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 ...

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

Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have developed a data-driven AI framework that gives scientists a head start by suggesting ideal candidate ...

Making AI-Generated Code More Accurate in Any Language

Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains ...

Modeling Method Provides Smarter Way to Predict Customer Demand

Apr. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new forecasting model that helps companies more accurately estimate how many customers are interested in a product -- even when key data is missing. The study introduces ...

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 ...

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

Mar. 27, 2025 — A new method significantly advances 3D imaging of reflective surfaces. The approach integrates techniques known from high-precision optical 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Computer Code Could Lead to Simpler, Less Costly Stellarators for Fusion Power

Mar. 12, 2025 — Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 vehicle to learn from the experiences of others ...

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? These behaviours, so common in elite ...

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 ...

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 ...