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25/01/2025

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.....
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A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are due to pneumonia, COVID-19 or other conditions.

01/01/2025

2024 saw smaller models and new guardrails for language AIs. pagadesign/E+ via Getty Images – By Published: 2024 Dec 20 – I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning as the director of the Advancing Human and Machine Reasoning lab at th...

01/01/2025

An existing ADHD medication can help people quit methamphetamine. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 27 – New research has found that an existing ADHD medication greatly reduced the number of days people with a methamphetamine dependence used the drug. With no current drug treatment to ass...

01/01/2025

Researchers have developed a way of guiding stem cells’ development. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 26 – Researchers have created a way to guide and control the development of stem cells into specific tissues and organs, opening the door to developing a means of one day tackling comp...

01/01/2025

A new study shows that adding sugar to coffee can have a surprising effect on circadian rhythms. Depositphotos – By Michael Franco 2024 Dec 24 – A new study turned up a surprising effect of having caffeine with a sweetener. For some java drinkers, it could be a way to get more out of the beverag...

01/01/2025

OLaLaMerkel / Shutterstock – Published: 2024 Dec 24 – Authors Michael Timothy Bennett PhD Student, School of Computing, Australian National University and by Elija Perrier Research Fellow, Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology, Stanford University – A new artificial intelligence (...

01/01/2025

A trade card promoting a holiday sale at the ‘Bee Hive’ store on Dec. 10, 1879, in New York City. Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images   Author Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno Published: 2024 Dec 12   Everyone has heard of Santa Claus, that chubby, whi...

01/01/2025

Strawberries are just one food packed with kaempferol, a flavonoid that reduces inflammation Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Dec 21 – New research has found that a chemical abundant in fruits, vegetables and plant products can suppress the immune response seen in food allergies. It paves th...

01/01/2025

An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA – By James L. Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury Published: 2024 Oct 03 – The ancient Maya believe...

01/01/2025

This shows how the I-Xray software works, from capturing the image to aggregating the data. AnhPhu Nguyen – By Joe Salas 2024 Oct 02 – In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 Meta Ray-Ban 2 smart sunglasses – to dig up...

01/01/2025

Steam billows from two cooling towers serving Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 2005. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster – By Todd Allen, Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan Published: 2024 Sep 27 – Constellation, an energy company that provides e...

01/01/2025

Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA– By Peter A Noble, Adjunct Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham and by Alex Pozhitkov, Senior Technical Lead of Bioinformatics, Irell & Manella...

01/01/2025

Big ideas lead to … some genuinely absurd science research, celebrated by the Ig Nobel Prize. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 Sep 16 – From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recog...

01/01/2025

The pioneer has a top speed of 200 kmph. Matt Ben Stone – By Utkarsh Sood 2024 Sep 15 – The Pioneer 25 marks a momentous step in the world of motorsports as it passed the mandatory FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) crash tests. Developed solely for Extreme H, the world’s firs...

01/01/2025

A hydraulic fracturing drill rig near Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, in 2012. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA – Fracking – Explainer – Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, record amounts of oil and gas have been produced in the US in the past six years – Dharna Noor 2024 Sep 11– – Kamala Harris and...

01/01/2025

When the mom, dad or both parents drink, the health risks of alcohol extends to their future offspring. Robert Daly/OJO Images via Getty Images – By Michael Golding, Professor of Physiology, Texas A&M University Published: 2024 Aug 28 – The conditions within a person’s home, family and communi...

22/12/2024

The giant panda’s diet is almost 100% bamboo. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images   By Ellen Welti,Research Ecologist, Great Plains Science Program, Smithsonian Institution 2024 Dec 21   More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. P...