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Tech Xplore / AI-powered inspection system gives 3D printers 'a brain behind the eyes'
Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system that can monitor complex 3D-printed structures layer by layer, using AI and machine learning (ML) to ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists uncover why some Huntington's disease patients decline years earlier
A new study has revealed why some people with Huntington's disease develop symptoms 10–12 years earlier and experience a more aggressive form of the disease.
Tech Xplore / AI giants pursue self-regulation as safety fears mount
The world's biggest AI companies are working to create a standards body, ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure mounts to create a safer version of the technology.
Tech Xplore / This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups and toys, as interactive companions to humans—an act of pure magic, seemingly. But scientists at MIT's Computer Science and ...
Medical Xpress / Structured exercise linked to longer cancer survival and time free of disease
Structured exercise may help people with cancer live longer and have more time free of disease, finds a synthesis of the available evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Phys.org / How can countries prevent shocks and disasters from turning into food crises? Analysis points to resilience measures
Floods, wildfires, conflicts, earthquakes, economic shocks, hurricanes or epidemics: These unexpected and often dramatic events affect people's lives and jobs, destroy crops, wipe out livestock and stored food, contaminate ...
Phys.org / Blue light breaks long-standing chemistry rule, unlocking 3D drug building blocks
For more than a century, pharmaceutical companies have relied on flat structures called aromatic rings, which can help drugs bind to target sites in the body. They include benzene rings and other flat, nitrogen-containing ...
Phys.org / Advanced X-ray crystallography determines structure of macromolecule at unprecedented resolution
Proteins are high-performance molecular machines that carry out nearly every biochemical function inside living cells. To understand how they achieve this, scientists often examine their detailed atomic structure, which holds ...
Tech Xplore / A blueprint for keeping humans in control of AI
William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious moment: just two months before ChatGPT launched publicly in November 2022, exploding the widely held understanding of what machines ...
Medical Xpress / STI rates remain high in Australia's latest sexual health data
New sexual health data released by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney show a mixed picture for Australia, with rates of syphilis and gonorrhea remaining high after significant increases since 2016—and chlamydia stable but ...
Phys.org / Continuous video of black hole radio observations challenges shock wave theory
For years, scientists have relied primarily on radio imaging from techniques like very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to study jets from the active galactic nuclei of supermassive black holes. This allows for the detection ...
Medical Xpress / One good night's sleep reduces fatigue in hockey players
Could the secret to bouncing back after a grueling practice be as simple as sleeping just a little bit longer for one night?