AI systems are already skilled at deceiving and manipulating humans
Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest. In a...
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“What was that?” — How brains convert sounds to actions
You hear a phone ring or a dog bark. Is it yours or someone else’s? You hear footsteps in the night — is it your...
First detection of hepatitis E virus from urban Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) in the Republic of Korea
A team of researchers from Korea University College of Medicine, including Professor Jin-Won Song from the Department of Microbiology, Professor Ji Hoon Kim from the...
A study reveals the need to review temperature control measures in hospitals to manage legionella
A work of the Clinical and Environmental Infectious Diseases Study Group (CEID) at Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), led by Dr. Laura Gavaldà from the...
Rolling with the punches: How mantis shrimp defend against high-speed strikes
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Mantis shrimp are small creatures known for their superlatives. Their eyes have 12 to 16 different color receptors, versus our own...
Learning the imperfections: a new approach to using neural networks for low-power digital pre-distortion (DPD) in mmWave systems
In the world around us, a quiet but very important evolution has been taking place in engineering over the last decades. As technology evolves, it...
Worker rights are one of the least protected human rights, new research reveals
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Worker rights are among the least protected human rights in the world, according to new research from faculty at Binghamton University, State...
Good vibrations: New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices
What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What sounds a bit like science fiction may actually not be...
NSF awards $630,000 to study teeth of non-human primates
The National Science Foundation awarded $630,444 to Kathleen Paul, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, to provide a comprehensive outline of...
‘Smart’ contact lenses could someday enable wireless glaucoma detection
Most people with early-stage glaucoma don’t know they have it, even though early treatment is key to reducing vision loss. While detecting a subtle increase...
During peak of COVID-19 some lacked access to safe water and lavatories
A defining development of the 20th century that changed the course of public health was when governments around the world improved access to safe water,...
Revolutionizing nurse work environment research
PHILADELPHIA (May 9, 2024) – New research from Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) – recently published online in the journal...
A fragment of human brain, mapped
A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and...
Manganese sprinkled with iridium: a quantum leap in green hydrogen production
As the world is transitioning from a fossil fuel-based energy economy, many are betting on hydrogen to become the dominant energy currency. But producing “green”...
Deep learning-based whole-body PSMA PET/CT attenuation correction utilizing Pix-2-Pix GAN
“We have developed a Pix-2-Pix GAN model to perform attenuation correction on whole-body PSMA PET images with 18F-DCFPyL.”Credit: 2024 Ma et al. “We have developed...
