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Risk-Aware Conversational Agent Design for Mental Health Information Access
Researchers at Lancaster University Management School have unveiled a conversational artificial intelligence system designed to make mental health support online...
New spring-based jumping mechanism designed for wheeled jumping robots
Wheels are superb at carrying robots across smooth ground, but the moment the terrain turns vertical, most wheeled machines grind...
Predicting 5G Propagation Delay to Enable V2X Task Offloading
Every day, millions of connected vehicles exchange telemetry, sensor data, and compute-intensive workloads with roadside and cloud infrastructure, and every...
Metaheuristic cluster routing boosts energy efficiency in underwater sensor networks
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have long promised to transform ocean exploration, environmental monitoring, disaster early warning, and offshore infrastructure...
New L1-norm method simplifies nonparallel support vector quantile regression
A team of researchers in China has unveiled a new machine learning model that promises to make regression analysis smarter,...
Multimodal RAG framework improves question answering over lengthy documents
Researchers at South China Normal University have unveiled MMRDoc, a new retrieval-augmented generation framework designed to help artificial intelligence systems...
Mel-DEPTHS: new benchmark dataset for melanoma skin and tumor segmentation
The battle against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has just received a significant boost from an international team...
Bidirectional decoupled learning improves cross-subject emotion recognition from physiological signals
Emotions leave fingerprints in the body that no one can fully fake. Electrical ripples across the scalp, the steady drum...
New multi-axis study probes how AI verifiers disagree on clinical reasoning
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked not just to generate medical conclusions but to judge whether other AI systems...
Optimizing multi-drug chemotherapy schedules using double deep Q-learning
Chemotherapy has always been a delicate balancing act. Oncologists must deliver enough drug to destroy tumor cells, but not so...
Evaluating frailty in aging mice: current methods and challenges
Frailty, the state of heightened vulnerability that emerges as biological reserves dwindle with age, has become one of the most...
Motherhood accelerates biological ageing through pregnancy and postpartum telomere loss
Pregnancy may be one of the most physiologically demanding experiences the human body can undergo, and a new review suggests...
Metabolomic analysis reveals biological pathways altered by clinical intervention
When surgeons alter the plumbing of the human gut, the chemistry of the blood changes in ways that no single...
New handheld master-slave robot developed for laparoscopic surgery
A team of engineers and surgeons in China has built a handheld surgical robot that brings robotic dexterity to laparoscopic...
Multicenter study predicts kidney cancer grade using multi-phase CT radiomics
Radiologists and artificial intelligence researchers in China have unveiled a machine learning framework that can predict the aggressiveness of the...
MYSM1 halts cervical cancer growth by activating ITPR1-driven autophagy
Cervical cancer remains one of the most preventable yet persistent malignancies worldwide, and every new insight into its molecular machinery...
Stem cells rewire neighboring tumor metabolism, fueling drug resistance in lung cancer
Lung cancer tumors that respond well to targeted drugs often harbor a hidden population of cells that the drugs cannot...
Replicator framework reveals how vaginal microbiome defends against pathogens
In a development that is drawing attention across the fields of microbiology, ecology, and women’s health, researchers at the University...
Machine learning predicts distant metastasis in combined liver cancer
A rare and particularly aggressive form of primary liver cancer may soon be easier to assess at the bedside, thanks...
Scrub typhus bacteria found in chiggers and ground birds
Every year, tens of thousands of people across the Asia-Pacific region fall ill with scrub typhus, a potentially fatal febrile...