What comes to mind when you think about your body? Most people might imagine an intricate network of blood vessels or the complex neural circuits of the brain. Or we might picture diagrams from the iconic medical textbook, Gray’s Anatomy. Today’s visualization puts…
The use of predictive analytics by insurers to fight fraud has reached an all-time high with 80% of insurers using predictive modeling to detect fraud, up from 55% in 2018, according to a study from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and SAS. The…
Researchers from the University of Toronto and University of Cambridge are looking into the ways ageism – prejudice against individuals based on age – can be encoded into technologies such as artificial intelligence, which many of us now encounter daily. This age-related bias…
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…
