23+ hour, 49+ 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…...

1+ day, 2+ hour 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+ day, 2+ hour 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+ day, 3+ hour 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....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (581+ words) A quantum bit that has lost its coherence is usually written off as a casualty of its noisy environment, but a new theoretical study argues that this verdict is often premature — and, more importantly, predictable....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (626+ words) Graph neural networks have become one of the most powerful tools in modern machine learning for making sense of data that lives in relationships rather than rows of a spreadsheet....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (83+ words) Large language models have become astonishingly capable learners, absorbing new skills from relatively small amounts of fine-tuning data. Yet this flexibility comes with a well-known curse: when an AI model is trained sequentially on new tasks, it tends to overwrite…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of farming, and one of the most consequential shifts is happening not in the cloud but in the fields themselves. A new systematic literature review published in Smart Agricultural Technology maps, for the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour 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…...