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Study Helps Explain How Selfies Are Used to Communicate
Researchers at Germany's Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences enlisted 132 people to examine 1,001 selfies and characterize their first impressions...
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AI Rivals Human Nose When Naming Smells
Researchers developed a graph neural network that reliably matched human volunteers' identification of 55 odors, then predicted the smells of 500,000 additional...
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Novel Algorithm Proposed for Selecting Variables Efficiently
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has developed a variable selection algorithm for chemometrics applications....
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Scientists Sequence Last Piece of the Human Genome: The Y Chromosome
The Telomere-to-Telomere consortium has completed sequencing the human genome by adding the fully mapped Y chromosome.
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Wearable Biosensor for Monitoring Sweat Electrolytes
Researchers in Japan engineered an innovative sweat biosensor by depositing a flexible chloride ion sensor onto a textile substrate through heat-transfer printing...
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Building Robust Optical Structures Made of Darkness
A team of Harvard University researchers harnessed metasurfaces to generate and manipulate dark regions in electromagnetic fields called "optical singularities."...
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Robot Uses Fake Raspberry to Practice Picking Fruit
Scientists engineered a robot that practiced raspberry-picking on a silicone raspberry mockup with an artificial stem to ensure it learned how to handle the fragile...
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Atlas of Biomedical Literature Could Help Track Down Fabricated Studies
An atlas of biomedical literature could prove useful in identifying fraudulent studies.
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Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving quantum circuits.
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Advancing AI Research Infrastructure Through NSF Investments
The awards will focus on specific aspects of artificial intelligence research infrastructure and instrumentation.
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Cyborg Technology Analyzes Functional Maturation of Stem-Cell Derived Heart Tissue
A "cyborg" technique developed by Harvard University researchers can monitor the functional maturation of heart tissue using nanoelectronics.
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AI Re-Creates What People See by Reading Brain Scans
The Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence algorithm can read functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to replicate images people have recently...
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Breakthrough Enables Perfectly Secure Digital Communications
A new algorithm hides sensitive information in a way that makes it impossible to detect anything has been concealed.
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Computers That Power Self-Driving Cars Could Drive Global Carbon Emissions
Researchers found the computational needs of self-driving cars could drive a significant increase in global carbon emissions.
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Vocal Amplification Patch Could Help Stroke Patients, First Responders
Scientists at China's Tsinghua and Shanghai Jiao Tong universities have engineered a "graphene-based intelligent, wearable artificial throat"patch that can amplify...
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Google Vice President Warns AI Chatbots Are Hallucinating
Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan has warned the public about a little-known problem with artificial intelligence chatbots: they "hallucinate."
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Researchers Construct Computer-Derived Marker for Coronary Artery Disease
A new computer-derived marker for coronary artery disease is based on machine learning and clinical data from electronic health records.
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Why Researchers Are Teaching AI to Play Minecraft
OpenAI has developed a Minecraft-playing bot that can build pixelated tools and buildings in the game via a combination of imitation and reinforcement learning....
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Bowers CIS Community Celebrates Life of Juris Hartmanis
A dozen colleagues spoke about Hartmanis' significant contributions to the field of computer science.
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