Tactile imagery used to improve rehabilitation of patients with motor disorders

Brain MRI projection. Credit: Skoltech Skoltech researchers in collaboration with Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian…

Generative artificial intelligence in the hospitality and tourism industry

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Between the boundless potential and the grim peril of artificial intelligence is an ocean of possibilities so vast that its enormity alone can douse research. In…

Researchers Reveal Method To Squelch Malicious Robocalls

Researchers at North Carolina State University on Wednesday revealed a novel method for foiling malicious robocalls. Called SnorCall, the method uses artificial intelligence to analyze the content in robocalls and,…

Calculations predict surprising quark diffusion in hot nuclear matter

When an energetic quark travels through a “soup” of “free” quarks and gluons—the quark-gluon plasma (QGP)—non-local quantum effects should cause it to scatter faster and at wider angles than expected…

Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? A nutritionist explains the science behind ‘functional’ foods

We’ve all heard that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but how true is that? Apples are not high in vitamin A, nor are they beneficial for vision…

Could The Universe be Twice as Old as Current Estimates Suggest?

How do we know how old the universe actually is? Balasubramanian: The universe is often reported to be 13.8 billion years old, but, truth be told, this is an amalgamation…

New high-tech microscope using AI successfully detects malaria in returning travelers

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death. The World Health…

How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics—uncertainty—into machine learning systems. Human error and uncertainty are concepts that many artificial…

Votive offering of figurines found at the Valley of the Temples |

Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Valley of the Temples have uncovered a collection of votive offering figurines. The Valley of the Temples forms part of the ancient city of Agrigentum,…

Stem cell therapy rescues symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease

Systemic transplantation of wild-type hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (green) led to their differentiation into microglia-like cells (red), which reduced the amount of beta amyloid plaques (magenta) in the brain.…