2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago   (708+ words) Electric vehicles are quietly rewriting the rules of the power grid, and nowhere is that transformation more visible than along the highways that stitch countries together....

5+ hour, 48+ min ago   (91+ words) Digital images have become the default currency of communication, evidence, commerce, and journalism, yet every photograph that travels across an open network is exposed to silent modification. A cropped receipt, a spliced face, a doctored medical scan, or an altered…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (70+ words) A bold new framework is challenging one of philosophy’s oldest questions: what does it take for a system, biological or artificial, to genuinely mean something? In a paper published in Discover Artificial Intelligence, researcher Jaehong Yu introduces the concept of…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago   (775+ words) Every time a person checks in at a café, a park, or an airport using a location-based social network, they leave behind two intertwined traces: a social tie to other users and a geographic footprint of where they have been....

8+ hour, 12+ min ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new review published in the journal Artificial Intelligence Review, the relationship between AI and the social sciences has become a two-way…...

8+ hour, 44+ min ago   (75+ words) Rare cells punch far above their weight in biology. Populations that make up less than one percent of a tissue can drive tumor progression, immune evasion, drug resistance, and relapse, while others mark the first steps of lineage commitment or…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (580+ words) Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s most consequential trade-offs. Tall plants can shade weeds and capture light, yet they topple in wind and rain, complicate harvest,…...