39+ min ago   (55+ words) A conversational agent that listens not only to what users say but to how they say it has shown in a controlled experiment that it can make guided work in mixed reality feel noticeably more usable and supportive, even though…...

1+ hour, 43+ min ago   (632+ words) Fuel cells promise a clean energy future, but a tiny molecule has long stood in their way....

2+ hour, 54+ min ago   (704+ words) Software has an odor problem, at least metaphorically. So-called code smells—structural weaknesses such as oversized classes, duplicated logic, and tangled methods—are early warning signs that a codebase is rotting from within, and they cost the software industry billions…...

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (559+ words) Tissue microarrays have quietly become one of the workhorses of modern cancer research, allowing hundreds of tissue cores from different patients to be packed onto a single microscope slide and scanned in one pass....

3+ hour, 29+ min ago   (91+ words) Digital images have become the default currency of communication, evidence, commerce, and journalism, yet every photograph that travels across an open network is exposed to silent modification. A cropped receipt, a spliced face, a doctored medical scan, or an altered…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago   (70+ words) A bold new framework is challenging one of philosophy’s oldest questions: what does it take for a system, biological or artificial, to genuinely mean something? In a paper published in Discover Artificial Intelligence, researcher Jaehong Yu introduces the concept of…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago   (627+ words) Teaching a team of artificial intelligence agents to cooperate has long been one of the most stubborn problems in machine learning. Each agent sees only a fragment of the world, the environment shifts beneath them as they learn, and the…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (775+ words) Every time a person checks in at a café, a park, or an airport using a location-based social network, they leave behind two intertwined traces: a social tie to other users and a geographic footprint of where they have been....

4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...