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Neuroscientists Find New Factors Behind Better Vision

The size of our primary visual cortex and the amount of brain tissue we have dedicated to processing visual information can predict how well we can see, a new study shows.

Gender Bias in Search Algorithms Has Effect on Users, New Study Finds

Gender-neutral internet searches yield results that nonetheless produce male-dominated output--results have an effect on users by promoting gender bias and potentially influencing hiring decisions.

Whole Exome Sequencing Predicts Whether Patients Respond to Cancer Immunotherapy

A two-step approach with sequencing of 20,000 genes improves prediction of who benefits from immune checkpoint inhibitors

Climate Factors Predict Future Mosquito Activity

Rainfall, Air and Ocean Temperatures Linked to Populations of Dengue-Spreading Mosquitoes in Sri Lanka

Scientists Engineer Synthetic DNA to Study “Architect” Genes

Building artificial Hox genes enables researchers to see how cells learn their location in the body

Local Economic Data Encourages Legislators to Open Emails—but Only Democrats

Randomized study shows that including data for legislators on the local economic impact of an issue can encourage engagement, but it varies by party

Getting to the Heart of Engineering a Heart

New tissue engineering capabilities enable researchers to program contractility in functional layers of heart tissue bioprinted with human stem cell-derived organ building blocks

Food-Packaging System Reduces Health Risks and Saves Food

Inspired by battlefield medicine, this antimicrobial food wrap could reduce food waste and foodborne illness

Tuning Sound Waves on Chip

Researchers control and modulate acoustic waves on chip for the first time

High-Speed, Efficient and Compact Electro-Optic Modulators for Free Space

New photonic devices may have applications in lidar, optical computing and more

App to Help Doctors Help Patients with Leukaemia

MEDTECH Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and clinicians at Rigshospitalet have developed an app that can help doctors make better decisions for patients with leukaemia.

Israeli computer simulation sheds light on life’s possible origins

A new simulation by researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute shows how life could have originally evolved from simple fatty molecules known as micelles into self-reproducing structures capable of evolving to more complex forms.

A Programming Language for Hardware Accelerators

Researchers created Exo for writing high-performance code on hardware accelerators.

MIT Engineers Design Surfaces That Make Water Boil More Efficiently

Systems used in many industries could save energy through these new surface treatments.

Artificial Intelligence Model Finds Potential Drug Molecules a Thousand Times Faster

A geometric deep-learning model is faster and more accurate than state-of-the-art computational models, reducing the chances and costs of drug trial failures.

‘Democratic AI’ Makes More Favoured Economic Policy Decisions

The research addresses a question that has divided opinions among philosophers, economists and political scientists for many years

A Major Step Forward for Organ Biofabrication

By recreating the helical structure of heart muscles, researchers improve understanding of how the heart beats

New Insights About Surface, Structure of Asteroid Bennu

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu’s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct test of the poorly understood near-subsurface physical properties of rubble-pile asteroids.