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September 25, 2023

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Drug Discovery on an Unprecedented Scale

Sep. 25, 2023 — Boosting virtual screening with machine learning allowed for a 10-fold time reduction in the processing of 1.56 billion drug-like molecules. Researchers teamed up with industry and supercomputers to carry out one of the world's largest virtual drug ...

AI Helps Bring Clarity to LASIK Patients Facing Cataract Surgery

Sep. 21, 2023 — Scientists develop computer models of patients' eyes to identify the ideal intraocular lenses and visual simulators for patients to experience how they will see with ...

Machine Learning Models Can Produce Reliable Results Even With Limited Training Data

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have determined how to build reliable machine learning models that can understand complex equations in real-world situations while using far less training data than is normally ...

Are US Teenagers More Likely Than Others to Exaggerate Their Math Abilities?

Sep. 14, 2023 — A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to brag about their math ...

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Images of Simulated Cities Help Artificial Intelligence to Understand Real Streetscapes

Sep. 14, 2023 — To address the lack of suitable training data for deep-learning semantic segmentation models in urban landscaping, researchers developed a method ...

AI-Driven Tool Makes It Easy to Personalize 3D-Printable Models

Sep. 14, 2023 — With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their ...

Evolution Wired Human Brains to Act Like Supercomputers

Sep. 14, 2023 — Scientists have confirmed that human brains are naturally wired to perform advanced calculations, much like a high-powered computer, to make sense of the world through a process known as Bayesian ...

Verbal Nonsense Reveals Limitations of AI Chatbots

Sep. 14, 2023 — The era of artificial-intelligence chatbots that seem to understand and use language the way we humans do has begun. Under the hood, these chatbots use large language models, a particular kind of ...

New Super-Fast Flood Model Has Potentially Life-Saving Benefits

Sep. 12, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new simulation model, which can predict flooding during an ongoing disaster more quickly and accurately than currently ...

Online AI-Based Test for Parkinson's Disease Severity Shows Promising Results

Sep. 7, 2023 — A new artificial intelligence tool can help people with Parkinson's disease remotely assess the severity of their symptoms within minutes. While ...

Researchers Use AI to Find New Magnetic Materials Without Critical Elements

Sep. 5, 2023 — A team of scientists developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-element-free permanent magnet materials based on the predicted Curie temperature of new material ...

Surpassing the Human Eye: Machine Learning Image Analysis Rapidly Determines Chemical Mixture Composition

Aug. 30, 2023 — Machine learning model provides quick method for determining the composition of solid chemical mixtures using only photographs of the ...

AI Models Are Powerful, but Are They Biologically Plausible?

Aug. 15, 2023 — Researchers hypothesize that a powerful type of AI model known as a transformer could be implemented in the brain through networks of neuron and astrocyte cells. The work could offer insights into ...

Researchers Use Mathematical Modeling and Dynamic Biomarkers to Characterize Metastatic Disease During Adaptive Therapy

Aug. 15, 2023 — Researchers demonstrate how mathematical modeling combined with dynamic biomarkers can be used to characterize metastatic disease and identify ...

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Distribution of Genetic Information During Bacterial Cell Division

Aug. 14, 2023 — A mathematical model provides new insights into the distribution of genetic information during bacterial cell ...

Artificial Intelligence Designs Advanced Materials

Aug. 11, 2023 — Scientists pioneer a new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy ...

Tool Finds Bias in State-of-the-Art Generative AI Model

Aug. 10, 2023 — Researchers introduce a new tool to measure bias in text-to-image AI generation models, which they have used to quantify bias in the state-of-the-art model Stable ...

Turning ChatGPT Into a 'Chemistry Assistant'

Aug. 10, 2023 — Developing new materials requires significant time and labor, but some chemists are now hopeful that artificial intelligence (AI) could one day shoulder much of this burden. In a new study, a team ...

New Model Reduces Bias and Enhances Trust in AI Decision-Making and Knowledge Organization

Aug. 8, 2023 — Researchers have developed a new explainable artificial intelligence (AI) model to reduce bias and enhance trust and accuracy in machine learning-generated decision-making and knowledge ...

Self-Supervised AI Learns Physics to Reconstruct Microscopic Images from Holograms

Aug. 7, 2023 — Researchers have unveiled an artificial intelligence-based model for computational imaging and microscopy without training with experimental objects or real data. The team introduced a ...

How Good Is That AI-Penned Radiology Report?

Aug. 4, 2023 — New study identifies concerning gaps between how human radiologists score the accuracy of AI-generated radiology reports and how automated systems score them. Researchers designed two novel scoring ...

Deep Learning for New Protein Design

Aug. 3, 2023 — Deep learning methods have been used to augment existing energy-based physical models in 'do novo' or from-scratch computational protein design, resulting in a 10-fold increase in success ...

New Method Simplifies the Construction Process for Complex Materials

Aug. 2, 2023 — A new technique incorporates many different building blocks of cellular metamaterials into one unified graph-based representation. This can be used to make a user-friendly interface that can quickly ...

Scientists Uncover a Surprising Connection Between Number Theory and Evolutionary Genetics

Aug. 1, 2023 — An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists has uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics, that reveals key insights into the ...

Researchers Successfully Train a Machine Learning Model in Outer Space for the First Time

July 28, 2023 — Scientists have trained a machine learning model in outer space, on board a satellite. This achievement could revolutionize the capabilities of remote-sensing satellites by enabling real-time ...

A Simpler Method for Learning to Control a Robot

July 26, 2023 — A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer ...

AI Predicts the Work Rate of Enzymes

July 24, 2023 — Enzymes play a key role in cellular metabolic processes. To enable the quantitative assessment of these processes, researchers need to know the so-called 'turnover number' (for short: kcat) ...

The Economic Life of Cells

July 13, 2023 — A team has combined economic theory with biology to understand how natural systems respond to change. The researchers noticed a similarity between consumers' shopping behavior and the behavior ...

Supercomputer Used to Simulate Winds That Cause Clear Air Turbulence

July 12, 2023 — Using Japan's most powerful supercomputer, researchers reproduced cases of clear air turbulence around Tokyo. They simulated the fine vortices responsible for this dangerous phenomenon. The ...

Researcher Turns One of the Basic Rules of Construction Upside Down

July 11, 2023 — Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke's theory that a hanging chain will mirror the shape of an upstanding rigid arch. However, new research now shows ...

Board Games Are Boosting Math Ability in Young Children

July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...

Machine Learning Takes Materials Modeling Into New Era

July 7, 2023 — The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a ...

Deciphering the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time in Large-Scale Complex Networks

July 5, 2023 — A solution for temporal asymmetry -- or entropy production -- in thermodynamics has been developed to further our understanding of the behavior of biological systems, machine learning, and AI tools. ...

Researchers Teach an AI to Write Better Chart Captions

June 29, 2023 — A new tool helps scientists develop machine-learning models that generate richer, more detailed captions for charts, and vary the level of complexity of a caption based on the needs of users. This ...

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