8+ 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....

8+ min ago   (464+ words) Every living cell depends on thousands of distinct protein families, each folding into precise three-dimensional shapes to carry out the molecular tasks that sustain life....

11+ 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…...

15+ min ago   (68+ words) Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality systems, it is the difference between smooth navigation and costly failure. Deep learning has produced stereo matching networks that achieve…...

15+ min ago   (90+ words) Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly powerful tool in the search for new medicines, but a persistent problem has haunted the field: neural networks that invent molecules are remarkably creative yet notoriously unreliable. They can propose chemical structures that look…...

35+ min ago   (618+ words) Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers struggle with the same question: which method actually works best for their data? The answer usually depends on benchmarks—structured…...

39+ min ago   (55+ words) Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor at understanding why things happen. A research team now reports a new self-supervised framework, called TRACE, that pushes video understanding…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago   (639+ words) Researchers at the University of Málaga have unveiled GenPot, a generative honeypot architecture that uses fine-tuned large language models to lure attackers into elaborate, entirely fake web services — and in a controlled trial, cybersecurity experts were unable to distinguish it…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago   (721+ words) A new qualitative study from China offers one of the most detailed maps to date of what patients with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome actually value about their health, and the picture that emerges is strikingly broader than the clinical targets that dominate…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (70+ words) Scientists in China have found a way to lock superhard diamond particles into a high-entropy alloy coating so effectively that the material’s wear loss drops by more than 16 percent and its wear volume by over 40 percent compared with the alloy…...