36+ 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…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (29+ words) Day 11 of an ongoing daily series on advanced machine learning concepts Abstract Images, 3D shapes, and audio are …...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (718+ words) Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic exceeding guideline values across large parts of the Bengal Basin....

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (679+ words) For most of modern biology, the hunt for new human proteins has followed a familiar path: read the genetic sequence, predict where genes begin and end, and work outward from there. That strategy has served science remarkably well, delivering the…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (537+ words) Every second, social media platforms face an unrelenting stream of comments, and among them hide the insults, threats, and abusive language that can poison entire communities....

5+ hour, 18+ min ago   (77+ words) Scientists have unveiled a significantly upgraded CRISPR base editing platform that combines near-unrestricted DNA targeting with pinpoint accuracy and markedly higher efficiency, potentially transforming efforts to correct disease-causing mutations and engineer improved crops. In a study published in Advanced Science,…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (57+ words) In the dim, crowded interior of a commercial turkey barn, one bird looks much like another. Thousands of large, white-feathered animals mill about under fixed overhead cameras, and to the human eye—and, crucially, to most computer vision systems—they…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago   (663+ words) Deep learning models can now spot malaria parasites in blood smears, grade diabetic retinopathy from retinal photographs, and detect the earliest structural signatures of Alzheimer’s disease on brain MRI scans, often matching the performance of experienced clinicians....

6+ hour, 12+ min ago   (598+ words) As AI accelerates productivity, the next competitive advantage may be our ability to pause, recover, and sustain human …...