In October 2024, the FlyWire consortium published the first whole-brain connectome of an adult female Drosophila in Nature, mapping 139,255 proofread neurons. The project, supported by NIH, Wellcome T…
Tentris, a high-performance, disk-based RDF graph database developed by DICE Research, claims to reduce RAM consumption from over 10 GBs to MBs and execute analytical workloads that traditionally take…
A new analysis of thousands of NSF and NIH grant applications, including confidential rejected submissions, reveals that generative AI is increasingly used in writing grant proposals, raising concerns…
The United States is changing how it allocates research funding, with a focus on investing in individual scientists over legacy institutions and increasing funding to AI research, according to the Dir…
A new tool called LectureToBook converts video presentations into editable PDF or ePub documents by extracting slides and using an AI model to include only useful content, ignoring repeated transcript…
MIT engineers have developed an ultrasonic wristband that tracks hand movements in real-time by capturing ultrasound images of wrist muscles and tendons, which an AI algorithm translates into hand and…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH…
A proposal for a US-China AI safety hotline faces obstacles from mistrust and fear among Chinese American scientists, exacerbated by cases like Jane Ying Wu's suicide after an NIH investigation. The a…
A developer built a benchmark to test whether frontier language models can be trusted to interpret clinical genetic variants. Testing Claude Opus 4.8 against expert consensus from ClinVar, the model s…
Jack Hidary's SandboxAQ signed a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $500 million CHIPS Research and Development award to use AI to discover semiconductor materials. The aw…
Noah AI launched a domain-specific AI platform for pharma, biotech, and medical professionals, offering cited reports grounded in PubMed, clinical guidelines, patents, and professional databases. The …