32+ min ago   (764+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging has long been the gold standard for peering into the human brain, but it has always demanded one precious commodity that many patients simply cannot spare: time....

32+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

38+ 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, 11+ 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…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (529+ words) Neuroscientists can now record electrical storms of activity from tens of thousands of neurons at once, but a stubborn bottleneck has long stood between the raw data and discovery: turning enormous three-dimensional calcium imaging videos into clean, trustworthy lists of…...

1+ hour, 24+ 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, 50+ min ago   (29+ words) Day 11 of an ongoing daily series on advanced machine learning concepts Abstract Images, 3D shapes, and audio are …...

2+ hour, 1+ 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,…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (92+ words) This June, ten of the life sciences industry’s most respected board members came to New York for Accenture’s second annual Life Sciences Board Forum for something this industr... Ten life sciences board directors on AI's three hardest questions: developing the…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (540+ words) Computed tomography has long been one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, but a fundamental limitation has always lurked beneath its grayscale images. Conventional CT measures how much X-rays are attenuated as they pass through tissue, a…...