13+ min 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…...

34+ min ago   (55+ words) Online shoppers scrolling through a popular product on a major e-commerce platform may face thousands of customer reviews, each expressing a slightly different opinion about quality, price, delivery, durability, or customer service. Reading them all is impossible, and the automated…...

34+ 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, 7+ 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, 20+ 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, 20+ min 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+ hour, 57+ min 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....

2+ hour, 37+ min 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....

2+ hour, 49+ min 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....

3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (679+ words) For most of modern biology, the hunt for new human proteins has followed a familiar path: read the genetic sequence, predict where genes begin and end, and work outward from there. That strategy has served science remarkably well, delivering the…...