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A proof-of-concept study fused EEG recordings with clinical interview transcripts from 520 participants, achieving near-ceiling accuracy under controlled conditions while emphasizing that independent prospective validation is still required.

An opinion article argues that medical AI should strengthen, rather than displace, bedside observation, clinical reasoning and the physician-patient relationship.

A narrative review maps how machine learning and deep learning now span oral cancer care from smartphone lesion triage and whole-slide computational pathology to prognostic modelling and treatment-response prediction, while warning that most evidence remains retrospective and internally validated.

A peer-reviewed experimental review in Artificial Intelligence Review examines how image enhancement, scaling, and evaluation metrics jointly determine the reliability of learning-based computer vision systems, and introduces a no-reference perceptual integrity measure for quantifying image quality.

Six AI assistants chasing a £350 train refund spammed officials, invented excuses, and leaked private health details, though each model was tested only once.

A simulation-based study reports that a federated Edge-AI framework combining smart neck collars and a hybrid GBoost-LSTM model predicted dairy cattle disease with 95.12 percent accuracy while keeping raw sensor data on participating farms.

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark  —  Applied artificial intelligence company Baba secured $40 million in series A funding to modernize the Medicare and Medicaid experience.

A two-center retrospective cohort study of 823 surgically resected pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma patients found that a Transformer-based AI model achieved the best survival prediction in most tasks, though logistic regression won at five-year landmarks and external calibration was less satisfactory.

A hierarchical Pd@CoAl-LDH/Ti3C2 nanosheet array catalyst achieved 99.2% yield in a model Heck coupling within 50 minutes and was reused five times without significant activity loss.

A ternary blend of ZnO, CuO and NiO nanoparticles enhances the crystallinity, dielectric response and flexibility of PVDF films, though tensile strength and hysteresis losses leave room for refinement.

An enhanced asynchronous actor-critic framework trained in simulation and on a physical mobile robot showed faster convergence, higher throughput, and stronger disturbance robustness than standard A3C, PPO, and SAC in dynamic robotic tasks.

Chinese researchers distilled three large neural networks into a lightweight model that identifies Ligustici Rhizoma et Radix decoction pieces and their confusable adulterants from smartphone photos with 99.73 percent accuracy.

A conditional generative adversarial network tuned by an Adaptive Jaya Algorithm generated synthetic forest images that, combined with EfficientNet-B0 feature extraction, lifted forest scene classification accuracy to 98.48 percent in a new study.

A meerkat-optimized gated recurrent unit model achieved 96.65 percent accuracy and an AUC of 0.97 in classifying table tennis skill levels from IoT training load data, outperforming existing models in a study published in Discover Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers have combined flame spray pyrolysis and electrospinning to create chitosan-containing nanofiber dressings that release sustained silver ions from embedded sub-10-nm nanoparticles, showing strong activity against MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in laboratory and ex vivo human skin tests without detectable nanoparticle release.

Nitrogen-doped titanium oxide nanowires synthesized with ammonium nitrate showed a 2.2-fold increase in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over undoped titanium oxide, with the lowest dopant loading performing best.

A probabilistic dynamic graph deep learning model developed on Prince Edward Island predicted potato crop coefficients with R² values up to 0.997 across three soil types, outperforming seven benchmark models over two growing seasons.

Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research fields, including nuclear fusion, astrophysics and laser-plasma physics. In plasmas, slight disturbances can grow due to instabilities, and energy is transferred between structures of various sizes due to turbulence. These phenomena give rise to structures ranging from very small to large, which significantly influence the overall motion and energy flow of the plasma.

Technology can contribute to better treatment for people struggling with anxiety and depression, according to researcher Sandra Klonteig.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that uses a laser to produce a plasma beam antenna capable of transmitting

A new open-source tool called THEMISim lets researchers search the THEMIS project's archive of more than a billion auroral images for visually similar frames in milliseconds rather than hours.

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Oct. 19–23. The post This Week in Tech: AI Agents Clock In as Apple Buyers Wait and IT Scrambles appeared first on TechRepublic.

Metallic materials used in extremely cold environments must maintain high strength, ductility and fracture toughness to support applications in aerospace, clean energy, superconducting systems and deep-space exploration. However, traditional alloys often suffer performance degradation at ultralow temperatures because of the long-standing trade-off between strength, ductility and toughness. Although metals may become stronger at lower temperatures, they can also become more brittle and prone to fracture.

A qualitative study of ten pharmacists at a Chinese tertiary hospital finds cautious acceptance of AI medication consultation, with pharmacists emphasizing AI's auxiliary value and their own irreplaceable role in personalized care and risk identification.

A ZIF-8 metal–organic framework co-loaded with organic MBT and zinc acetate gives epoxy coatings pH-triggered, dual-mechanism corrosion protection that reaches 97.6% active protection efficiency at scratch sites.

Indian workers wear forehead cameras to help train AI robots, raising questions about consent, surveillance and the future of their jobs.

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Researchers engineered small extracellular vesicles with two targeting tags that exploit the heart's fatty acid transport machinery, improving delivery of edaravone and PKA-silencing RNA and reducing cardiac injury in mouse models of ischemia-reperfusion and permanent infarction.

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A new Mamba-based segmentation network combines four-directional state space scanning, spatially guided channel attention, and parameter-free anatomical constraints to outperform U-Net, SwinUNet, and Mamba variants on cardiac, abdominal, and prostate benchmarks while running at 53.8 frames per second.

New aquabot offers a way to design small, efficient “biohybrid” robots. Continue reading MIT’s paper-thin robot swims with power from living cells on Tech Explorist.

Wondering why RTX 5090s are so hard to find? Leaked footage shows thousands of consumer GPUs, including Founders Editions, being torn apart for AI servers.

As Nvidia has gone from chipmaker to industry financier, some investors see the company taking on outsized risk tied to the AI buildout.

Leslie Pickett lost over $10,000 to a deepfake scam after a fake Jon Bon Jovi account on Instagram used AI videos to build trust over months.

As Nvidia has gone from chipmaker to industry financier, some investors see the company taking on outsized risk tied to the AI buildout.

We've got robotics updates from Unitree, Tesla, and Figure, as the companies announce their latest progress.

Carolyn Marvin, a 78-year-old retired professor, was arrested after blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot on a Philadelphia sidewalk for months.

Rachel Monroe / New Yorker: Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings  —  Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.

Sol–gel synthesized SrV2O6 nanoparticles achieved 3.14 Wh/kg energy density and degraded up to 94% of organic dyes under light, a lab study in Ionics reports.

Researchers electrochemically deposited gold nanoparticles onto twisted carbon nanotube fibers, yielding flexible electrodes that recorded hippocampal activity in mice with a signal-to-noise ratio of 6.86.

A hyalurosomal hydrogel co-delivering nifedipine and citicoline sodium achieved a 51.85 percent maximum intraocular pressure reduction and 2.2-fold deeper corneal penetration than a control solution in rabbits, outperforming a marketed glaucoma drop in a preclinical study.

A systematic review of 11 studies finds that deep learning models using ultrasound show moderate sensitivity and high specificity for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer, but wide prediction intervals and geographic concentration limit immediate clinical use.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 39 studies reports pooled AI classification accuracy of 96.8 percent for brain tumor MRI, with CNN and hybrid models reaching about 98.5 percent, but finds that only 32 percent of studies shared code and fewer than 5 percent included uncertainty estimation, leaving explainability and transparency as the main barriers to clinical trust.

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers report that a hybrid statistical and deep learning survival model outperformed comparison models on a dataset of 1,980 breast cancer patients.

A new study in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials takes a different route: it deliberately induces dielectric resonance, the collective oscillation of local electrons between adjacent but non-contacting particles under an external alternating electric field.

An international collaboration co-led by an IAS scholar has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most

These robots have real muscles, and they’re finally making big moves. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed muscle

Quantum computers only work when a control system reliably delivers algorithms to the hardware while immediately detecting and

Before you buy a local AI machine, know what you're actually optimizing for. Here's a breakdown of NVIDIA, AMD and Apple.

In a controlled comparison, zinc oxide nanoparticles degraded 85 percent of methyl red dye under xenon-lamp irradiation, outperforming magnesium oxide at 72 percent and copper oxide at 68 percent.

Author(s): T. Rõõm, A. Glezer Moshe, R. Nagarajan, U. Nagel, Hee Taek Yi, Seongshik Oh, and G. BlumbergTerahertz magneto-optics is established as a direct probe of helical vortex-core excitations, providing dynamical evidence for multiband CdGM states in iron-based superconductors. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 176001] Published Fri Oct 23, 2026

Liv McMahon / BBC: The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind  —  The UK says it will establish a national AI Biosecurity Lab (AIBL) to help strengthen its defences against emerging biological threats.

A new anomaly-detection method called OSCAR learns each brain region's typical whole-brain connectivity profile and flags multivariate deviations during tasks and in early psychosis, uncovering condition-related regions that standard perMANOVA misses.

Researchers built a low-cost pavement inspection pipeline from smartphones, a denoising diffusion model, and YOLOv11m, showing synthetic images improve alligator crack detection when labeled data are scarce, with the largest gains under strict localization metrics.

A meta-analysis of ten randomized controlled trials in 995 breast cancer survivors found that virtual reality–assisted relaxation therapy was associated with significant reductions in anxiety, depression, psychological distress, and self-reported fatigue.

Get ready for the age of private space telescopes. The Lazuli Space Telescope will launch in a few years and part of its mission is to observe exoplanets. New research presents a list of 27 exoplanet targets, some of which are very well-known and will certainly benefit from deeper observations.

A particle swarm optimization strategy that dynamically selects the most informative clients in federated learning matches state-of-the-art methods for medical image classification while keeping standard FedAvg aggregation intact.

A review in Artificial Intelligence Review maps how EEG foundation models evolved from borrowed language- and vision-model architectures between 2021 and 2025 toward four neuro-native design paradigms, while cautioning that clinical value still awaits rigorous cross-subject and cross-device validation.

A scoping review of 38 studies maps the evidence for ultrasound-triggered microbubble and nanobubble platforms in breast cancer imaging, local drug delivery, and immunotherapy.

A semi-supervised YOLO11 pipeline using confidence filtering, DIoU-NMS deduplication, and light manual checks outperforms fully supervised scrap steel detection while cutting annotation cost.

A new methods article outlines how artificial intelligence should be used to integrate liquid biopsy biomarkers in cancer research, finding that few studies combine multiple molecular layers and none assess calibration or clinical utility.

The new RFD4-Proteina unified generative model for protein design—created by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) in collaboration with NVIDIA—uses advanced AI to generate entirely new protein sequences and structures, achieving computational design success rates five to 10 times higher than previous models and generating candidates five to 10 times faster.

A new nanomaterial called TPTN reduces uveitis inflammation by suppressing microglial activation and inhibiting the JAK2-STAT1 signaling pathway in mouse models.

A robotic citrus harvester that aligns fruit stems with a passive V-shaped guide and coordinated arm motions achieved an average residual stem length of 3.10 millimeters across 100 orchard-harvested navel oranges with no fruit damage.

Zhejiang University researchers report a physics-guided framework combining generative imputation, dynamic graph attention, and a constrained decoder that achieved zero quantile crossing in retrospective probabilistic forecasting of 11 Belgian PV zones, though interval calibration remains improvable.

Researchers at AIST have demonstrated the synthesis of nanoporous carbonaceous materials and carbonaceous materials with layered nanostructures through a simple process involving the chemical modification of common sugars such as sucrose and fructose.

Thin films of fluorescein dye and graphene nanosheets embedded in polyvinyl alcohol showed higher thermal conductivity, faster light response, and greater quantum efficiency than dye-only films in a new laboratory photodetector study.

Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms, publishers, marketplaces, and communities built on it, the next few months bring an unwelcome decision. Find a replacement, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: "When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies," published in the journal Physical Review D.

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.

Tesla has begun building production quality Optimus robots in Fremont and revealed its training plan. The post Tesla reveals Optimus Academy, where robots teach themselves appeared first on TESLARATI.

Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia announced a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU. Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system. Uber is also involved, a French trade paper reported. No launch date was given. Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia will work with […] This story continues at The Next Web

For years, developers of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have worked to address an unwanted side effect many users experience: cybersickness, a type of motion sickness triggered by moving digital content.

Researchers at Umea university thought gold particles would make electronic components emit more light. Instead, they discovered an unexpected effect that could be important for the future of organic electronics.

Robots the size of a pencil tip could travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.

During the London event, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella outlined his view of how agentic AI needs to be managed as part of enterprise IT

Researchers propose a testable framework that pairs Traditional Chinese Medicine's preventive-treatment doctrine with digital phenotyping and dual-engine AI analysis for chronic disease control, while stressing the architecture remains clinically unvalidated.

One of the many challenging parts of being a doctor is diagnosing exactly what is wrong with a patient. This is because numerous illnesses often have overlapping symptoms, which can make the diagnostic journey a long one.

A new bibliometric analysis of 809 publications shows that research on artificial intelligence for predicting and preventing sports injuries grew from 13 papers in 2018 to 204 by 2025, with machine learning, injury prevention, and wearable technology emerging as the field's central themes.

A Nature Neuroscience study shows that the slow-dissociation kinetics of LSD at the serotonin 2A receptor let repeated low-dose psychedelics sustain β-arrestin signaling and produce lasting antidepressant-like effects in mice and cynomolgus macaques without detectable psychedelic-associated behavioral disruption.

Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th "to allow more time for us to explain to our partners and stakeholders what's changing and what's not." The business terms, which were originally supposed to go into effect on October 30th, appeared to give Meta permission to freely scrape the new sites that use its platforms, while using the material for AI training. Though Meta u … Read the full story at The Verge.

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the lower-right corner, where a distant background galaxy is being magnified and distorted by the gravity of a closer galaxy.

A prospective pilot study of four acute-phase stroke patients in Japan found that gait training with the Hybrid Assistive Limb exoskeleton significantly improved step length and walking velocity within single sessions, although adjusted comparisons with conventional training did not reach statistical significance.

A new Frontiers in Nanotechnology Research Topic curated for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science collects six women-led studies spanning cell mechanics, osteoporosis nanoparticles, vapor sensors, SERS substrates, nanoflow metrology and plant gene delivery.

A new review argues that biomolecules from plants, algae and bacteria can replace toxic solvents and energy-intensive processes in the synthesis of metallic nanomaterials, with comparable particle sizes and applications but persistent challenges in stability, scalability and mechanistic control.

A new test-time adaptation framework shows that online model updates can rescue surgical instrument segmentation from severe low light and blur, but normalization statistics, not temporal machinery, drive most of the recovery.

Researchers in Türkiye have combined IoT sensors, gradient-boosted machine learning, and a safely grounded large language model into a prototype system that predicts wind turbine gearbox and electrical failures in real time and explains them to operators in plain language.

Researchers tuned gold nanoparticle deposition on titanium dioxide nanotubes to build an enzyme-free glucose sensor with a sensitivity of 7.96 microamperes per millimolar per square centimeter and a detection limit of 15.1 micromolar.

Unitree Robotics is building a system that lets its humanoid robots improve themselves, founder Wang Xingxing said on Thursday. He calls it Unitree Rehearsal. He named it the company’s most important project of the year, Minxiao Chang reported for the South China Morning Post. Wang spoke at a physical AI conference that Unitree hosted in […] This story continues at The Next Web

Arriving on the Caribbean island of Dominica for the first time "feels a little bit like stepping into Jurassic Park," said Giovanni Petri, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London.

A new PLOS Computational Biology perspective sets out ten practical rules defining where AI assistance in computational biology is legitimate and where it becomes risky delegation.

Hugging Face's Carbon-X AI model lets researchers analyze DNA using natural language, with lower reported costs and local deployment options for labs. The post Hugging Face’s New AI Model Lets Scientists Analyze DNA at a Fraction of the Cost appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.

Researchers report a Caesalpinia bonducella-derived Ag/CuO nanocomposite that detects nitrite down to 0.1 nanomolar by cyclic voltammetry and shows antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in laboratory tests.

Medical AI can improve with new patient data, but every update must be checked first. Patients, equipment and ways of working change, and a model trained on older data can gradually get worse without anyone noticing.

Meta's Muse AI was built to manage tasks, but users are developing romantic AI relationships and even calling the AI companion their girlfriend.

Expectations are high and billions are being invested in the quantum race. Doctoral researcher Christa Schauman explains how

Brain cells are being launched into space with the aim of advancing research into neurodegenerative diseases, thanks to

Canva Craft Image Model Canva no longer wants to rent its image AI from rivals. The design company