18+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

39+ min ago   (655+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new review published in the journal Artificial Intelligence Review, the relationship between AI and the social sciences has become a two-way…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (95+ words) Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven together to protect and nourish a future plant. For scientists trying to understand how crops such as the yellow pea…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (29+ words) Day 11 of an ongoing daily series on advanced machine learning concepts Abstract Images, 3D shapes, and audio are …...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (718+ words) Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic exceeding guideline values across large parts of the Bengal Basin....

2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (581+ words) A quantum bit that has lost its coherence is usually written off as a casualty of its noisy environment, but a new theoretical study argues that this verdict is often premature — and, more importantly, predictable....

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (679+ words) For most of modern biology, the hunt for new human proteins has followed a familiar path: read the genetic sequence, predict where genes begin and end, and work outward from there. That strategy has served science remarkably well, delivering the…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (537+ words) Every second, social media platforms face an unrelenting stream of comments, and among them hide the insults, threats, and abusive language that can poison entire communities....

5+ hour, 21+ min ago   (77+ words) Scientists have unveiled a significantly upgraded CRISPR base editing platform that combines near-unrestricted DNA targeting with pinpoint accuracy and markedly higher efficiency, potentially transforming efforts to correct disease-causing mutations and engineer improved crops. In a study published in Advanced Science,…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (57+ words) In the dim, crowded interior of a commercial turkey barn, one bird looks much like another. Thousands of large, white-feathered animals mill about under fixed overhead cameras, and to the human eye—and, crucially, to most computer vision systems—they…...