By examining tiny vessels inside a person’s eyes, doctors might one day be able to predict that person’s risk of early death, according to a new study. Though the risk of illness and early death generally increases with chronological age, that risk…
As part of the Open Source Science Initiative (OSSI), NASA is inviting coders to develop a new artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithm to help astronomers identify comets. NASA’s OSSI is a comprehensive program of activities to enable and support moving science towards openness,…
Web-weaving spiders that build blindly using only the sense of touch have fascinated humans for centuries. In a recent study, researchers observed a hackled orb weaver during its nighttime web-building work. They monitored how they constructed webs by trackeing the millions of…
In recent years, underground chemists have increasingly made small chemical tweaks on known recreational drugs to skirt laws, creating novel designer versions. Instead of cannabis, for instance, these chemists could offer up XLR-11, or instead of PCP they might have 3-MeO-PCE. Novel designer drugs, also…
Artificial intelligence researchers are employing machine learning algorithms to aid tasks as diverse as driving cars, diagnosing medical conditions, and screening job candidates. These applications raise a number of complex new social and ethical issues. So, in light of these developments, how should social scientists…
A new computer program powered by artificial intelligence takes mere minutes to determine whether homes and buildings have been destroyed by wildfires once the smoke has cleared. Developed by scientists at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Stanford University, DamageMap evaluates…
Thanks to deep learning, the central mysteries of structural biology are falling like dominos. Just last year, DeepMind shocked the biomedical field with AlphaFold, an algorithm that predicts protein structures with jaw-dropping accuracy. The University of Washington (UW) soon unveiled RoseTTAFold, an AI that…
Will humans worship artificial intelligence (AI) in the near future? In less than two decades, machines have outclassed humans. The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race… Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t…
Artificial intelligence systems have been developed to predict whether someone will develop dementia within two years, with 92 per cent accuracy, its developers claim. Data from 15,300 patients in the US was used to train the AI by researchers from the University…
On Earth, hydrogen is normally a gas. But when it is under high temperatures and pressures—the conditions that exist within many planets, such as Jupiter—hydrogen goes through a series of phase transitions and takes on the properties of a liquid metal. One of the…
