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November 29, 2023

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How Do You Make a Robot Smarter? Program It to Know What It Doesn't Know

Nov. 28, 2023 — Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ask for further directions. Telling a robot to ...

Optical-Fiber Based Single-Photon Light Source at Room Temperature for Next-Generation Quantum Processing

Nov. 2, 2023 — Single-photon emitters quantum mechanically connect quantum bits (or qubits) between nodes in quantum networks. They are typically made by embedding rare-earth elements in optical fibers at extremely ...

Clinical Trials Could Yield Better Data With Fewer Patients Thanks to New Tool

Oct. 25, 2023 — Mathematicians have invented a new statistical tool to analyze multiple outcomes from clinical trials, replacing the 60-year-old standard tool that could only look at binary outcomes (survived/ did ...

To Excel at Engineering Design, Generative AI Must Learn to Innovate, Study Finds

Oct. 20, 2023 — A new study reveals the pitfalls of deep generative models when they are tasked with solving engineering design problems. The researchers say if mechanical engineers want help from AI for novel ideas ...

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Care Robots: Ethical Perceptions and Acceptance

Aug. 29, 2023 — The global population of people older than 65 years of age is rapidly increasing the need for care. Although care robots are a promising solution to fill in for caregivers, their social ...

AI Transformation of Medicine: Why Doctors Are Not Prepared

Aug. 6, 2023 — The success of artificial intelligence technologies depends largely on how physicians interpret and act upon a tool's risk predictions -- and that requires a unique set of skills that many are ...

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 ...

Breakthrough in Monte Carlo Computer Simulations

July 27, 2023 — Researchers have developed a highly efficient method to investigate systems with long-range interactions that were previously puzzling to experts. These systems can be gases or even solid materials ...

Efficient Discovery of Improved Energy Materials by a New AI-Guided Workflow

July 18, 2023 — Scientists have recently proposed a workflow that can dramatically accelerate the search for novel materials with improved properties. They ...

Participating in Genetic Studies Is in Your Genes

July 13, 2023 — Why do some people take part in genetic studies while others do not? The answer may lie within our genetic makeup. According to a groundbreaking study, people who participate in genetic studies are ...

Number Cruncher Calculates Whether Whales Are Acting Weirdly

July 6, 2023 — We humans can be a scary acquaintance for whales in the wild. This includes marine biologists tagging them with measuring devices to understand them better. These experiences can make whales behave ...

Geologists Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Landslides

June 28, 2023 — Many factors influence where a landslide will occur, including the shape of the terrain, its slope and drainage areas, the material properties of soil and bedrock, and environmental conditions like ...

Generative AI Models Are Encoding Biases and Negative Stereotypes in Their Users

June 22, 2023 — In the space of a few months generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Midjourney, have been adopted by more and more people in a ...

Bridging Traditional Economics and Econophysics

June 19, 2023 — How do asset markets work? Which stocks behave similarly? Economists, physicists, and mathematicians work intensively to draw a picture but need to learn what is happening outside their discipline. A ...

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Effective as a Collective: Researchers Investigate the Swarming Behavior of Microrobots

May 26, 2023 — Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots ...

Software to Untangle Genetic Factors Linked to Shared Characteristics Among Different Species

Apr. 14, 2023 — Scientists have developed a software package to help answer key questions about genetic factors associated with shared characteristics among different ...

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Find Life on Mars or Icy Worlds?

Mar. 6, 2023 — Researchers have mapped the sparse life hidden away in salt domes, rocks and crystals at Salar de Pajonales at the boundary of the Chilean Atacama Desert and Altiplano. Then they trained a machine ...

Research Team Creates Statistical Model to Predict COVID-19 Resistance

Feb. 22, 2023 — Researchers have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models for predicting who has the highest probability of being resistant to COVID-19 in spite of exposure ...

AI Technologies Have Even More Exaggerated Biases in Perception of Facial Age Than Humans

Feb. 1, 2023 — Researchers tested a large sample of the major AI technologies available today and found that not only did they reproduce human biases in facial age recognition, but they exaggerated those ...

Novel Method for Assigning Workplaces in Synthetic Populations Unveiled

Jan. 19, 2023 — Synthetic populations are computer-generated models that mimic real-world populations in terms of characteristics such as age, gender, and occupation; they are useful when conducting social ...

Modelling the Collective Movement of Bacteria

Dec. 28, 2022 — A new paper presents a mathematical model for the motion of bacteria that includes cell division and death, the basic ingredients of the cell ...

AI Model Proactively Predicts If a COVID-19 Test Might Be Positive or Not

Dec. 13, 2022 — A new study shows machine-learning models trained using simple symptoms, demographic features are effective in predicting COVID-19 ...

New Statistical Method Improves Genomic Analyzes

Nov. 14, 2022 — A new statistical method provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions -- such as cell types or ...

Mathematical Modeling Suggests U.S. Counties Are Still Unprepared for COVID Spikes

Oct. 27, 2022 — America was unprepared for the magnitude of the pandemic, which overwhelmed many counties and filled some hospitals to capacity. A new study suggests there may have been a mathematical method, of ...

Statistical Oversight Could Explain Inconsistencies in Nutritional Research

Oct. 13, 2022 — People often wonder why one nutritional study tells them that eating too many eggs, for instance, will lead to heart disease and another tells them the opposite. The answer to this and other ...

Biomarkers Used to Track Benefits of Anti-Aging Therapies Can Be Misleading, Suggests Nematode Study

Sep. 29, 2022 — Researchers followed the birth and death of tens of thousands of nematode worms using the 'Lifespan Machine', which collects lifespan data at unprecedented statistical resolution. They ...

New Software Platform Advances Understanding of the Surface Finish of Manufactured Components

Sep. 19, 2022 — The contact.engineering platform enables users to create a digital twin of a surface and thus to help predict, for example, how quickly it wears out, how well it conducts heat, or how well it adheres ...

Healthcare Researchers Must Be Wary of Misusing AI

Sep. 13, 2022 — A commentary advocates the proper application of artificial intelligence in healthcare and warns of the dangers when machine learning algorithms are ...

New Method to Identify Symmetries in Data Using Bayesian Statistics

Sep. 13, 2022 — Scientists have developed a method to identify symmetries in multi-dimensional data using Bayesian statistical techniques. Bayesian statistics has been in the spotlight in recent years due to ...

Idea of Ice Age 'Species Pump' in the Philippines Boosted by New Way of Drawing Evolutionary Trees

July 20, 2022 — A groundbreaking Bayesian method and new statistical analyses of genomic data from geckos in the Philippines shows that during the ice ages, the timing of gecko diversification gives strong ...

Topology and Machine Learning Reveal Hidden Relationship in Amorphous Silicon

June 24, 2022 — Fine-tuning the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon used in technologies such as solar cells and image sensors should become much easier thanks to the computational topology and ...

When Quantum Particles Fly Like Bees

May 12, 2022 — A quantum system with only 51 charged atoms can take on more than two quadrillion different states. Calculating the system's behavior is child's play for a quantum simulator. But verifying ...

One Particle on Two Paths: Quantum Physics Is Right

May 11, 2022 — The famous double slit experiment shows that particles can travel on two paths at the same time -- but only by looking at a lot of particles and analysing the results statistically. Now a ...

Exposure Assessment for Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Health Outcomes

Apr. 14, 2022 — Mathematicians have developed statistical methods that lay the framework for the crucial first step of determining whether there are any linkages between exposures and health outcomes from the 2010 ...

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