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A new study proposes a new way of modelling vision that could fundamentally changes how computers approach efforts to replicate human vision.

A team has developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts. This is new, because until now there has been no method to measure thoughts.

The publisher Springer Nature has shared its gold open-access (OA) options for Nature journals that will be introduced from January 2021. Whilst the initiative to move towards OA is positive news for its proponents, the considerable price tag attached is a worry.

Scientists in the ORION-B* program have now shown that statistics and artificial intelligence can help to break down the barriers still standing in the way of astrophysicists.

Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used computer memory technology. Researchers studying resistive switching memory cell have shown that thicker electrodes have greater surface roughness and are associated with markedly better memory cell characteristics.

Neural networks can produce incredibly gains in speech and efficiency, but can also make simplistic mistake. A new study suggests that common assumptions about the cause behind these supposed malfunctions may be mistaken, information that is crucial for evaluating the reliability of these networks.

New research has been published that predicts traits in corn-based on genomics and data analytics.

Rising temperatures in Germany's largest drinking water reservoir present new challenges for the drinking water supply. According to researchers, the impacts of this increase can be alleviated by mitigating climate change and applying new management strategies.

Bioinformaticians at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany together with colleagues from Finland and the USA, have now developed a unique method with which all metabo­lites in a sample can be taken into account, thus considerably increasing the knowledge gained from examining such molecules.

New atom-scale models now show that not only are some specific frustrated sequences in proteins necessary to allow them to function but locating them also provides clues to achieve better drug specificity.