Level III Neonatal ICUs Vary in Patients, Services, and Outcomes
A new study is challenging the idea that all Level III neonatal intensive care units are interchangeable. Although hospitals grouped under the Level III designation...
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Explainable Biomedical Foundation Model Learns Concepts Through Large-Scale Vision-Language Pretraining
Medical artificial intelligence has reached a point where being right is no longer enough. In hospitals, clinicians must also understand why an algorithm produced a...
Machine Learning Reveals Artistic Fingerprints in Jazz
Jazz has long been treated as an art of the moment: a conversation between musicians, a negotiation with rhythm, and a form of expression in...
MetaboAnalyst 6.0 Advances Exposomics from LC–MS2 Processing to Causal Dose–Response Modeling
Environmental exposures rarely arrive one at a time. People encounter complex mixtures of pesticides, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, combustion products and other contaminants through air,...
Study compares cold-stored and room-temperature platelets during cardiac surgery
A new study published in JAMA reports that cold-stored platelets may be just as effective as conventional room-temperature platelets for controlling active bleeding during cardiac...
Ocean research offers opportunities for healthier, more sustainable futures
Brazil could improve public health and reduce pressure on marine ecosystems by encouraging greater seafood consumption, expanding nutritionally diverse aquaculture, and managing fisheries according to...
Researchers improve triple-junction solar cells through defect passivation and optical management
Perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells have taken another significant step toward the efficiency levels needed to transform next-generation photovoltaics. In a study published in Nature, researchers...
Arabidopsis Reveals Imbalance Between Chloroplast Proton Motive Force and ATP Levels
Plants are often portrayed as nature’s quiet solar panels, converting sunlight into chemical energy with remarkable efficiency. Yet inside every green leaf, the machinery responsible...
Systematic Review Examines How Antidepressants Influence Breastfeeding Behaviors
A new systematic review is putting a closely watched question in the spotlight: whether taking antidepressants during pregnancy or after childbirth is associated with changes...
Machine learning accelerates climate solutions from ideas to real-world impact
AI-Guided Materials Discovery Produces New Methane-Capture Frameworks A new machine-learning-guided workflow has produced two promising materials for separating methane from nitrogen, offering a potential way...
Penn State to Lead National AI Initiative to Cut Geothermal Power Costs
Portland State University is leading a national research effort to use artificial intelligence to make geothermal energy cheaper and less risky to develop, targeting one...
Red Blood Cells Inspire Next-Generation Nanocarriers for Targeted Therapies
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a configurable nanocarrier built from the lipids of human red blood cells, creating a delivery platform that...
New study overturns earlier findings on how plants recover from drought
A sunflower may look recovered after a drought, but inside its stem and leaves, the damage can remain permanently etched into the plant’s water-transport system....
Derepressed Endogenous Retroviruses Activate Microglia, Driving Inflammation and Cellular Senescence
A dormant viral legacy embedded in the human genome may be helping to push the brain’s immune cells toward chronic inflammation and cellular aging, according...
UMass Amherst engineers boost edge AI efficiency by redesigning algorithms and hardware
Artificial intelligence is moving off the cloud and onto the devices people use every day, but that shift comes with a stubborn engineering problem: edge...