In 1776, the solar system only had 6 planets. Now, it has 8. Does it end there?

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...
STAT

Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roundup shows science and law use the same word — causation — while asking different questions, ...
RAPS

EU Commission drafts guidelines on classifying high-risk systems under the AI Act

Draft guidelines from the European Commission aim to assist companies in determining whether their products, including medical devices that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) components, are ...
Scientific American

A quantum computing system’s perfect randomness could keep your secrets safe

The orderly flow of information around the globe depends a lot on security, and at the heart of that security is randomness. Modern-day encryption relies on unpredictability to avoid being cracked, ...
News Medical

How an AI system learned to write expert-level scientific code

A new study shows how ERA combines large language models with tree search to rapidly build expert-level research software, outperforming leading benchmarks in tasks from single-cell genomics to ...
techxplore

AI system automates scientific software design, outperforming human-written code in key benchmarks

A research team at Google co-led by Michael Brenner, Catalyst Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Google ...
IEEE

Label-aware Evidence Modulation for Multi-Granularity Multi-Label Classification of Scientific Documents

Abstract: Multi-granularity multi-label classification of scientific documents is a fundamental task in digital libraries, requiring models to predict both coarse-grained (L1) and fine-grained (L2) ...
IEEE

Underwater Sounds Classification for Effective Smart Marine Monitoring Systems

Abstract: Underwater sound classification is commonly referred to the process of identifying and categorizing different types of sounds in underwater environments, such as those produced by marine ...
Scientific American

Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun Astronomers ...
Business Wire

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Applied Biosystems™ PowerFlex™ Thermal Cycler to Advance PCR Flexibility and Productivity

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Applied Biosystems™ PowerFlex™ Thermal Cycler, a next-generation polymerase ...
American Institute of Physics

Harvard College Observatory: Stellar classification systems, 2

Attendees of the second in a series of annual conferences on astrophysics, held in 1898 at Harvard College Observatory. In the group of three women in white on the left side of the photo, Williamina ...
Business Wire

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces the Gibco™ CTS™ Compleo™ Fill and Finish System to Help Streamline Cell Therapy Manufacturing

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the global launch of the Gibco™ CTS™ Compleo™ Fill and Finish System, an automated, ...