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Researchers trained an AI to assess post-disaster building damage just by looking at aerial images of the aftermathCredit: Hiroyuki Miura Researchers at Hiroshima University have taught an AI to look at post-disaster aerial images and…

Over the past week, the diverse program of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) materialized one session at a time. Many aspects of the actual Forum were mirrored and though replicating the depth of in-person exchanges is…

Researchers have uncovered a highly unusual network pattern within the Panama Papers, showing how fortunes can be easily hidden in secretive offshore shell corporations, and how these remain difficult to trace and take down In 2016, the…

The project is supported by a NSF Convergence Accelerator award that funds team-based, multidisciplinary initiatives addressing challenges of national importanceCredit: NSF Quantum technologies--simulators and computers…

Osaka City University develops a quantum algorithm that removes pesky spin contaminants from chemical calculations on quantum computers.Credit: Kenji Sugisaki, Kazunobu Sato and Takeji Takui, Osaka City University Osaka, Japan.…

Metallic carbon circuit element enables work on faster, efficient carbon-based transistorsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Daniel Rizzo Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers' speed and…

US Army grant helps UH researchers develop techniques to detect, deceive cyber attackersCredit: University of Houston The COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election have led to a significant increase in cyberattacks via…

In 2016, a supercomputer beat the world champion in Go, a complicated board game. How? By using reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence whereby computers train themselves after being programmed with simple instructions.…

The Greyhound framework, named after the breed of dogs known for their hunting abilities, was designed and implemented by an SUTD-led research team to systematically sniff out security lapses in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled devices.Credit:…

Path to higher thermal insulation of the plasma / Reduction of plasma turbulenceCredit: Video: IPP, A. Banon Navarro For the fusion researchers at IPP, who want to develop a power plant based on the model of the sun, the turbulence…

New all-optical imaging technique with an unprecedented frame rate allows scientists to visualize ultrafast transient phenomenaCredit: Zeng et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056002. High-speed cameras can take pictures in quick…

Artificial intelligence researchers at North Carolina State University have improved the performance of deep neural networks by combining feature normalization and feature attention modules into a single module that they call attentive…

Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short…

COVID-19 policy makers could learn more about transparency and accountability from industries like aviation, paper reveals Organisations could improve the transparency and accountability of COVID-19 policy making processes by learning from…

New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information PITTSBURGH--The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of research studies that it is hard for anyone to digest them all,…

Significant increases seen in software engineering enrollmentsCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, recently released its eighth annual Study of Non-Doctoral Granting…

A group of Skoltech scientists used machine learning (ML) methods to predict superhard materials based on their crystal structure. The research was published in the Journal of Applied Physics. This work is supported by Russian Science…

Credit: Harald Ritsch / IQOQI Even quantum computers make mistakes. Their computing ability is extraordinary; indeed, it exceeds that of classical computers by far. This is because circuits in quantum computers are based on qubits…

Speaker series features prominent women in range of fields WHEN: Friday, Sept. 11, 8:30 a.m. WHERE: Online; free registration and information available at https://tedxgateway.com/breakingbarriers/ WHAT: Archana Kamal, UMass Lowell…

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A new proposal for virtual travel, using advanced mathematical techniques and combining livestream video with existing photos and videos of travel hotspots, could help…