Researchers design new open-source technology for interfacing with living neurons
From Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 26/01/24 Neurons intricately communicate and respond to stimuli within a vast network, orchestrating essential functions from basic bodily processes to complex thoughts. Traditional neuroscience methods, relying on in vivo electrophysiology (within a living organism), often have difficulty addressing the complexity of the brain as […]
Surprisingly simple model explains how brain cells organize and connect
From University of Chicago 22/01/24 Neurons form an intricate web of connections between synapses to communicate and interact with each other. While the vast number of connections may seem random, networks of brain cells tend to be dominated by a small number of connections that are much stronger than most. This “heavy-tailed” distribution of connections […]
New AI makes better permafrost maps
From DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory 20/01/24 New insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policy makers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven threats to infrastructure such as oil pipelines, roads and national security facilities. “The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest […]
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10/01/24 Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every year. In a study appearing today in Nature, the researchers showed that these compounds […]
New easy-to-use optical chip can self-configure to perform various functions
From Optica 23/10/23 Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the potential to be used in applications requiring optical neural networks. Optical neural networks can be used for a variety of data-heavy tasks such as image […]