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Smart Computers: Advancing AI in Games and Image Recognition

Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human…

Life & Chemistry

New Active Ingredient Targets Chronic Infections Effectively

The starting point is a substance that can block the pathogenicity of the bacterium and weaken its protective biofilm. The Helmholtz Validation Fund, the DZIF…

Materials Sciences

Inkjet Printed Graphene-Like Materials: New Nanomaterials Unveiled

Since the discovery of the Nobel Prize winning material graphene, many new nanomaterials promise to deliver exciting new photonic and optoelectronic…

Physics & Astronomy

Engineering Team Captures Tiny Quasicrystals in Real Time

But there is, and the quasicrystal has become a subject of much research in the 35 years since Shechtman's Nobel Prize-winning discovery. What makes…

Life & Chemistry

A Map of the Cell’s Power Station

Mitochondria are the cell's power stations; they transform the energy stored in nutrients so that cells can use it. If this function is disturbed, many…

Physics & Astronomy

Unveiling High-Energy Cosmic Rays: Insights from Astrophysicists

A team of scientists from Russia and China has developed a model which explains the nature of high-energy cosmic rays (CRs) in our Galaxy. These CRs have…

Medical Engineering

Noninvasive eye scan could detect key signs of Alzheimer's years before patients show symptoms

Cedars-Sinai neuroscience investigators have found that Alzheimer's disease affects the retina — the back of the eye — similarly to the way it affects the…

Information Technology

AI implications: Engineer's model lays groundwork for machine-learning device

Elijah Thimsen, assistant professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and his collaborators have…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Catalog Unveils Surprising Ocean Microbiome Insights

As a group, marine microbes are extremely diverse and versatile with respect to their metabolic capabilities. All of this variability is encoded in their…

Life & Chemistry

Organ Crosstalk: How Fatty Liver Affects Other Organs

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is becoming more and more common. Approximately every third adult in the industrialized countries has a morbidly fatty liver….

Physics & Astronomy

Mars 2020 Mission: Smart Methods to Discover Past Life

Speaking at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris where he is presenting the methods to be adopted, Dr Ken Williford (who is also Director of the Jet Propulsion…

Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Flow May Accelerate Due to Slippery Sediment

The findings challenge the view that the recent slowdowns in ice flow would continue in the long term.
The research, published in Science Advances, was led…

Physics & Astronomy

Gold Nanobiosensors: Unlocking New Potential in Detection

With their remarkable electrical and optical properties, along with biocompatibility, photostability and chemical stability, gold nanoclusters are gaining a…

Materials Sciences

Superconductivity Breakthrough: New State of Matter Revealed

A potential new state of matter is being reported in the journal Nature, with research showing that among superconducting materials in high magnetic fields,…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Sequencing Tools Reveal Coral Connections

University of Washington scientists are looking at the burgeoning field of coral genetics to better predict, and maybe even prepare for, coral's future…

Earth Sciences

Trees Combat Climate Change: Carbon Absorption in Old Age

Michael Köhl and his team were able to demonstrate that trees absorb between 39 and 50 percent of the total carbon for their lifetime in the last quarter of…

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