Medical imaging has become the nervous system of modern medicine. From a patient’s chest x-ray to a biopsy’s tissue slide, doctors build a map of what’s happening inside the body. Yet the tools that help interpret these images are often siloed by modality (the kind of image) and by specialty (radiology, ophthalmology, pathology, dermatology, and…
Imagine looking up at the sky, not from Earth, but from a planet orbiting a distant star. What would you see? Would there be clouds? And if so, would those clouds behave in ways familiar to us? A new study from Cornell University explores this very question, suggesting that clouds on hot Jupiter exoplanets might…
AI is getting remarkably good at describing images in detail. Think of those automatic alt-text generators on websites, but amped up to eleven. These large vision-language models (LVLMs) now produce descriptions that are impressively nuanced, going beyond simple labels. But a new study from researchers at NVIDIA Research, Osaka University, and Stanford University reveals a…
Ultracold atoms have become one of the most human ways we reach into the quantum world: editing interactions, watching particles dance in a light-made lattice, and letting the laws of physics reveal themselves in slow motion. The latest work from researchers at the Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, led by Matias Volante-Abovich…
On city streets where autonomous shuttles roam, a safety valve lurks behind the scenes: a human hand that can guide or override the machine from afar. The new paper from Technische Universität München sketches a blueprint for how a control center could orchestrate a fleet of automated vehicles on public roads, stitching together safety, regulation,…
Highlights: A Toric Stage Inspires Interpolation; Most Low-Degree Points Emerge from Ambient Intersections; Singular Curves Go Onstage with Unity; A Plane-Curve Twist Expands Classical Results In the orchestra of algebraic geometry, a curve is a melody and a point of small degree is a note that repeats across a number field, not at will but…
Imagine a universe where the building blocks of matter—atoms—surprise us with their behavior. We think we understand the rules, but then something unexpected emerges: a low-lying resonance in a core-neutron interaction that, against all odds, helps create a stable, three-body bound state. This isn’t science fiction. Recent research from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Oak…
Prime numbers live in a strange neighborhood where patterns whisper and disappear at will. The family of Dirichlet L-functions is one of the most elegant maps we have for charting that neighborhood, especially when you stand on the critical line where the real and imaginary parts collide in a delicate balance. A new collaboration—Sébastien Darses,…
Blood clots are not static sculptures; they are living, bending mechanical systems that must yield to the river of blood while resisting it. The scaffold of a clot is fibrin, built from the protein fibrinogen, which is transformed into a fibrous network when the body needs to stop bleeding. In a study from Bennett University…
In science classrooms, students often reach for a pencil and a blank sheet of paper to draw a model, a diagram, a tiny cosmos of particles and forces. Those sketches aren’t just decorations; they’re windows into how a learner is making sense of the world. And yet, schools rarely have a tool that can read…
Imagine a world where the familiar rules of algebra get a surreal twist. What if you could ‘grade’ rings—mathematical structures that generalize numbers—not just with integers or real numbers, but with entire groups? And what if the properties of these gradings revealed deep secrets about the rings themselves and the groups doing the grading? That’s…
In the endless maze of real‑world decision making, some puzzles are simple to state but brutally hard to solve. You want to assign 0s and 1s to a set of items — binary decisions — while also obeying a handful of rules that link those choices together. Think facility location, scheduling, or even how to…
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All in Robot Decision-Making In the world of artificial intelligence, teaching machines to make decisions often feels like training a dog to fetch a ball: you reward the behavior you want, and over time, the dog learns to repeat it. But what if the dog had to fetch the ball quickly and gently, without…
In classrooms, the human mind is a living organism of attention, curiosity, and tiny rituals—eyes that rise, heads that dip, the rhythm of a lecture pulsing through the rows. The room is a chorus of subtle signals that reveal what a lesson feels like to live in real time, not just what it looks like…
In the grand theater of infinity, density is the chorus that tells us how often something appears as we count higher and higher. If you imagine listing the natural numbers and shading in the spots that belong to a set, density asks: as the list grows, does the shaded portion settle into a steady fraction…
What online video grounding asks of a machine Every second, a streaming video unfurls a story. In a world of surveillance feeds, live sports, and endless social clips, there’s a practical itch: can a computer listen to a spoken query like a human would and point to the exact moment in the stream where it…
The Monster group. It’s the name mathematicians give to the largest sporadic simple group, a truly colossal structure with over 800 billion billion billion members. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s a real mathematical object with profound implications for our understanding of symmetry, algebra, and the deep connections between seemingly disparate areas of mathematics….
Why Measuring Speech Quality Is More Than Just Numbers When you’re on a call and the audio sounds muffled or robotic, you instinctively know something’s wrong. But how do machines figure out if speech sounds good or bad? For decades, engineers have relied on metrics that compare a noisy or enhanced audio clip to a…
The Large Magellanic Cloud is our closest laboratory for studying the messy, beautiful physics of how galaxies breathe. A team led by Martin G. F. Mayer, based at the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, partnered with colleagues across Europe, Japan, Australia, and the Americas to use the SRG eROSITA…
The Perilous Hunt for Meteor Showers Picture this: you’re a meteor scientist, sifting through a mountain of data – millions of meteoroid orbits, each a tiny cosmic fingerprint. Your goal? To identify meteor showers, those breathtaking celestial displays born from the debris trails of comets and asteroids. The challenge? Distinguishing genuine showers from random clumps…