New reporting system aims to ensure accuracy and rigor of mouse models after widespread mismatches

Backed by new research findings, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have developed a new reporting system that will ...

Precision DNA editing targets root cause of severe childhood epilepsy in preclinical study

Gene editing can repair a DNA error in mice that causes Dravet syndrome, a rare, incurable, and potentially deadly form of ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
IEEE

Genetic Algorithms for a Scheduling Problem of Parcel Delivery and Pickup by Drones

Abstract: Recent studies have been conducted actively on scheduling in a parcel delivery system using a truck and drones to deliver parcels more effectively. In logistics, it is necessary to provide ...
USA Today

Is Amazon down? Tens of thousands report problems with website

Tens of thousands of shoppers are reporting widespread problems using Amazon’s website, according to reports from outage tracker Downdetector. As of 3:45 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 5, reports of ...
The Atlantic

The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...
The New York Times

This Genetically Engineered Fungus Could Help Fix Your Mosquito Problem

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...
IEEE

Extension of Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithm with Q-Learning for Dial-a-Ride Problem

Abstract: With the widespread adoption of delivery services and advancements in autonomous driving technology, route optimization problems have attracted significant attention. In particular, the ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Futurism

Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare “Superpower” Genetic Mutation

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A rare ...
Wired

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...