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Toward Manufacturing Semitransparent Solar Cells The Size Of Windows

A peel-off patterning technique could enable more fragile organic semiconductors to be manufactured into semitransparent solar panels at scale

Open Source Platform Enables Research On Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Virtual assortment of user devices provides a realistic training environment for distributed machine learning, protects privacy by learning where data lives

U-M Researchers Track Protein Binding, Build Synthetic Proteins To Study Gene Expression

How does a nose remember that it’s a nose? Or an eye remember that it’s an eye?

Machine Learning Begins To Understand The Human Gut

New computer model accurately predicts behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine

Engineers Build LEGO-Like Artificial Intelligence Chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

Court Ruling on PrEP Could Lead to More Than 2,000 HIV Infections in The Next Year

A recent U.S. federal court ruling that removes a requirement for employers to provide insurance coverage for the HIV prevention medications known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, could result in more than 2,000 entirely preventable HIV infections in the coming year, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change

Solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues. Animals remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Restoring species will help limit global warming, new science reveals.

Yale, VA Researchers Develop New Health Metric for Veterans

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have developed an alternative method to measure quality of life in veterans who seek weight management, eating disorder, and nutrition services.

Partisanship And Blame in The Early Days Of COVID-19

On Jan. 20, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first American, laboratory-confirmed case of what would eventually be called COVID-19.

Study Links Hard-Right Social Media With Incidents Of Civil Unrest

A new Yale-led study finds evidence that social media activity on hard-right platforms contributes to political unrest offline.

Yale-Led Team Creates Comprehensive Resource for Impact of Genomic Variants

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.

Diagnosing Pulmonary Hypertension Through Non-Invasive Methods

Pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, is a common complication of interstitial lung disease, an array of conditions that cause scarring of the lungs.

Understanding The Links Between US-China Trade and Inequality

A review of new findings on the links between US-China trade and inequality

Researchers Discover A New Hardware Vulnerability In The Apple M1 Chip

CSAIL scientists’ novel hardware attack against the Apple M1 chip defeats the last line of security while leaving no trace.

Faster Computing Results Without Fear Of Errors

Researchers developed a new system that can make computer programs run faster, while guaranteeing accuracy.

21 Million Americans May Take A Hypothyroidism Drug They Don’t Need

As many as 90 percent of those who take levothyroxine [Synthroid] may have been unnecessarily prescribed the hypothyroidism medication.

Hallucinating To Better Text Translation

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.

Molecules Found In Mucus Can Thwart Fungal Infection

Harnessing the strength of these specialized sugar molecules could help researchers develop new antifungal drugs.

Higher Lithium Levels in Drinking Water May Raise Autism Risk

For the first time, researchers report a possible link between autism disorder and lithium in drinking water

SMART Researchers Enable Early-Stage Detection Of Microbial Contamination In Cell Therapy

Rapid and accurate analytical test method enhances the production of high-quality cell therapy products.