Computers

North Carolina State University researchers found that a four-week training course made a substantial difference in helping special education teachers anticipate different ways students with learning disabilities might solve math problems. The findings suggest that the training would help instructors more quickly identify and respond to a student's needs. Published in the … [Read more...] about Training helps teachers anticipate how students with learning disabilities might solve problems

A Sussex team -- including university mathematicians -- have created a new modelling toolkit which predicts the impact of COVID-19 at a local level with unprecedented accuracy. The details are published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, and are available for other local authorities to use online, just as the UK looks as though it may head into another wave of … [Read more...] about Mathematicians develop ground-breaking modeling toolkit to predict local COVID-19 impact

Proteomics produces enormous amounts of data, which can be very complex to analyze and interpret. The free software platform MaxQuant has proven to be invaluable for data analysis of shotgun proteomics over the past decade. Now, Jürgen Cox, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, and his team present the new version 2.0. It provides an improved computational … [Read more...] about MaxDIA: Taking proteomics to the next level

Writing in the July 12, 2021 online issue of Nature Communications , researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new approach that uses machine learning to hunt for disease targets and then predicts whether a drug is likely to receive FDA approval. The study findings could measurably change how researchers sift through big data to find … [Read more...] about Artificial intelligence could be new blueprint for precision drug discovery

A team led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is able to automatically measure the amount of fat around the heart from MRI scan images. Using the new tool, the team was able to show that a larger amount of fat around the heart is associated with significantly greater odds of diabetes, independent of a … [Read more...] about AI predicts diabetes risk by measuring fat around the heart

Scientists from the Division of Physics at the University of Tsukuba used the quantum effect called "spin-locking" to significantly enhance the resolution when performing radio-frequency imaging of nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond. This work may lead to faster and more accurate material analysis, as well as a path towards practical quantum computers. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) … [Read more...] about Seeing with radio waves

Imagine sitting out in the sun, reading a digital screen as thin as paper, but seeing the same image quality as if you were indoors. Thanks to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, it could soon be a reality. A new type of reflective screen -- sometimes described as 'electronic paper' -- offers optimal colour display, while using ambient light to keep energy … [Read more...] about New electronic paper displays brilliant colors

Using artificial intelligence, UT Southwestern scientists have identified thousands of genetic mutations likely to affect the immune system in mice. The work is part of one Nobel laureate's quest to find virtually all such variations in mammals. "This study identifies 101 novel gene candidates with greater than 95% chance of being required for immunity," says Bruce Beutler, … [Read more...] about Scientists closing in on map of the mammalian immune system

A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or "qubits." The system marks a major step toward building large-scale quantum machines that could be used to shed light on a host of complex quantum … [Read more...] about Physicists take big step in race to quantum computing: Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created

Babies younger than four weeks old, called neonates, were once thought not to perceive pain due to not-yet-fully-developed sensory systems, but modern research says otherwise, according to researchers from Hiroshima University in Japan. Not only do babies experience pain, but the various levels can be standardized to help nurses recognize and respond to the babies' cues -- if … [Read more...] about Virtual learning may help NICU nurses recognize baby pain