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• Researchers want your voice to train coronavirus-detecting AI

  Researchers behind an AI app that detects coronavirus in your voice have asked for volunteers to upload audio of them coughing, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Alternative electrode materials could unlock the secret to faster-charging EV batteries

  A group of US scientists believe they have made a breakthrough that could lead to batteries tha can charge even faster than ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This smart toilet offers advanced poop analysis and analprinting

  An international team of researchers recently developed a fully automated sensor package that turns any regular toilet into ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI can’t predict a child’s future success, no matter how much data we give it

  A trio of Princeton social scientists recently conducted a mass experiment with 160 research teams to see if any of them ...

  • Tristan Greene

• MIT researchers use AI to turn the coronavirus into a haunting melody

  An AI system that turns the coronavirus' structure into music could help scientists spot details about COVID-19 that a microscope ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Coronavirus is growing exponentially — here’s what the numbers mean

  You may have seen a version of the infographic (below) that explains the potential impact of social distancing. It nicely illustrates that reducing the total number of disease-spreading contacts each infected person has can have a dramatic effect on the total number of infections ...

  • The Conversation

• AI reveals that mice's faces express a range of emotions -- just like humans

  AI has revealed that mice's faces have a range of expressions showing how they feel, offering clues about how emotional responses ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Use this 4-step method to block unwanted thoughts and improve focus

  While we can’t control the feelings and thoughts that pop into our heads, we can control what we do with them. Research ...

  • Nir Eyal

• Supermassive black holes: How did they grow so fast?

  Whilst astronomers are fairly certain that supermassive black holes, billions of times more massive than our  Sun, dwell ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• The future of black hole images is bright

  This month marks the first anniversary of the image of the environment directly surrounding the black hole at the center ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Scientists are using AI to predict which coronavirus patients need ventilators

  Computer scientists from the University of Copenhagen are using AI to calculate which coronavirus patients will need ventilators ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How AI can determine which coronavirus patients require hospitalization

  As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world, governments and hospitals are being overwhelmed ...

  • Ben Dickson