Most research on plant stem cells focuses on the tips of roots and shoots, where growth occurs in height. But biologist ...

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At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We ...

Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on ...

The three-year grant is led by Patrick Emami, Ph.D., of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and includes co-principal ...

Large language models are changing the way that people create and communicate, but they can also change the way we do science ...

Because such language is implicit and context-dependent, recognizing manipulative language can be very challenging for large ...

BiomedGPT is a new a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to support a wide range of medical and scientific tasks. This new study is described in the article as 'the first open-source and ...

A recent study questions if large language models (LLMs) truly form coherent world models, despite their accurate outputs in complex tasks like generating directions or playing games.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Barker, for creating an AI model ...

Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...