16+ min ago   (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...

19+ min ago   (55+ words) Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor at understanding why things happen. A research team now reports a new self-supervised framework, called TRACE, that pushes video understanding…...

57+ min ago   (639+ words) Researchers at the University of Málaga have unveiled GenPot, a generative honeypot architecture that uses fine-tuned large language models to lure attackers into elaborate, entirely fake web services — and in a controlled trial, cybersecurity experts were unable to distinguish it…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (70+ words) Scientists in China have found a way to lock superhard diamond particles into a high-entropy alloy coating so effectively that the material’s wear loss drops by more than 16 percent and its wear volume by over 40 percent compared with the alloy…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

1+ hour, 20+ 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…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (764+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging has long been the gold standard for peering into the human brain, but it has always demanded one precious commodity that many patients simply cannot spare: time....

1+ hour, 41+ 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…...

1+ hour, 41+ 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, 41+ min ago   (84+ words) A sweeping new survey published in Multimedia Tools and Applications maps the full arc of the deepfake era, from the first crude face swaps to today’s diffusion models capable of producing hyper-realistic, temporally coherent synthetic video. The study, led by…...