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Cool façade paints cut heat, energy use, and microclimate warming in tropics
In the sweltering, permanently air-conditioned city-state of Singapore, scientists have completed one of the most ambitious real-world tests yet of...
Evidence-tiered framework advances optogenetics toward clinical use
Optogenetics, the technique that allows researchers to switch defined cells on and off with light, has become one of the...
Study reveals genetic and clinical features of TP53-mutated myelodysplastic neoplasms
In one of the most comprehensive genomic investigations of its kind, researchers in China have delivered a sweeping portrait of...
Weekly Cladribine Plus Rituximab Shows Promise Against Hairy Cell Leukemia
A weekly dosing schedule for a decades-old leukemia drug appears to outperform the standard daily infusion regimen in hairy cell...
Comparing eligibility and evaluation criteria for antibacterial pull incentive programs
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the defining health threats of our time, yet the market for new antibiotics remains broken....
Rare bacterium Enterococcus thailandicus detected in critically ill patient’s respiratory samples
In a development that is drawing attention across the clinical microbiology community, physicians in Germany have reported the first known...
Bacterial polyphenol extract from Bacillus DO-R5 fights gout by blocking enzyme
Gout, a form of inflammatory arthritis driven by the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of...
Scientists turn kiwifruit branches into natural aroma materials
Every year, kiwifruit orchards around the world generate enormous quantities of pruned branches, most of which are burned, discarded, or...
Vision foundation model enables accurate plant height estimation in fields
Plant height sounds like the simplest measurement in agriculture—walk into a field with a ruler and check. But anyone who...
Expert Elicitation Made Easy with ELICIPY, an Online Python Tool
In the world of scientific decision-making, some of the most consequential judgments are made not by machines or direct measurements,...
Explaining AI Systems: A Multi-Layered Framework for Compliance Analysis
When regulators, judges, and clinicians demand that artificial intelligence systems be “explainable,” they rarely stop to ask a deceptively simple...
New method detects obfuscated malicious JavaScript through data-dependent statement pairs
JavaScript has long been the backbone of the interactive web, but its ubiquity has also made it the weapon of...
A Decade of Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning in Computer Vision
Artificial intelligence has conquered computer vision largely by brute force: feed enormous datasets into deep neural networks and let statistical...
Why Deepfakes Spread: New Study Links Adoption to Usefulness and Fun
Deepfakes have long been framed as one of the defining ethical hazards of the synthetic media era, a technology whose...
Graph-based social recommender suppresses redundant information for better suggestions
Social media platforms have long promised that the people we connect with online can help us discover the things we...
Fuzzy β-covering attribute reduction via fuzzy entropy and cuckoo search
Researchers in China have unveiled a new framework for stripping away redundant information from messy, real-world datasets, combining the mathematics...
Federated Learning Spots Malicious Domain Names Across Heterogeneous IoT Data
Every day, billions of Internet of Things devices quietly resolve domain names: smart cameras, routers, industrial sensors, medical monitors and...
Routing Strategies for Secure Key Exchange in Quantum Networks: A Survey
Quantum key distribution has long been promoted as the ultimate answer to the looming threat that quantum computers pose to...
Replicable AI framework for emotion recognition validated against human interpretation
Human emotion, long considered the most elusive territory of the mind, is being pulled steadily into the reach of machines—and...
A survey and comparison of recommender system datasets
Every movie you are offered, every song queued automatically on your commute, every product that seems to appear in your...