1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Gene editing has long promised a revolution in cancer medicine, yet the promise has remained stubbornly out of reach for one deceptively simple reason: getting the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into tumor cells, and only tumor cells, is extraordinarily difficult. A new…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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, 5+ hour ago   (90+ words) Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly powerful tool in the search for new medicines, but a persistent problem has haunted the field: neural networks that invent molecules are remarkably creative yet notoriously unreliable. They can propose chemical structures that look…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

1+ day, 7+ 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, 8+ hour 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+ day, 8+ hour ago   (81+ words) Multi-label classification, the machine learning task of assigning several labels at once to a single object, is everywhere in modern artificial intelligence. A photograph may be tagged with multiple objects, a medical image may indicate several conditions, and a document…...

1+ day, 8+ 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, 9+ 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, 10+ 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…...