Active machine learning is employed in academia and industry to support drug discovery. A recent study unravels the factors that influence a deep learning models’ ability to guide iterative discovery. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe /* style specs…

Illustration: Sébastien Thibault Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its domination of the prizes since the middle of the twentieth century. In 2020, two US…

By analysing citations and authors’ publication records, Argos identifies ‘high risk’ papers that warrant further investigation.Credit: bernie_photo/Getty Which scientific publishers and journals are worst affected by fraudulent or dubious research papers — and which have done least to clean up their portfolio? A technology start-up founded to help publishers spot potentially problematic papers says that…

A mosaic of asteroid Bennu using 12 separate images captured in December 2018 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona. Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid first discovered in 1999, has now become an unlikely tool in the search for something extraordinary — a fifth fundamental force of nature that could rewrite the rules of the…

A behaviourally informed WhatsApp chatbot that encouraged people in Argentina to get the next dose of the COVID-19 vaccine more than tripled vaccination rates, and nearly doubled them compared to a one-way message reminder. The chatbot has several features built in that helped people to find out where, when and how to get the vaccine.…

« All Events October 21 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm $15 Join us here at Bent of the River as we dive into Nature Journaling to understand the natural world around us. In each class, we will explore a different location on site and staff will lead the group through a guided Journaling activity.Please…

It’s a book that combines science, art, and design, highlighting mind-blowing colors that you’ve likely never seen before. Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, authors of the new book”The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature”, joined us to share some the stories behind the colors they’ve collected. Book Event Saturday,…

It’s a book that combines science, art, and design, highlighting mind-blowing colors that you’ve likely never seen before. Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge, authors of the new book”The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature”, joined us to share some the stories behind the colors they’ve collected. Book Event Saturday,…

Crystallographer Helen Berman co-founded the Protein Data Bank in the 1960s.Credit: Rutgers University The 2024 Nobels were all about artificial intelligence (AI). Pioneers of computer neural networks underlying AI scooped the physics prize, and chemistry went to two scientists who developed the revolutionary AlphaFold protein-structure prediction tool and one who pioneered protein design, a pursuit…

Using Northern Hemisphere-specific seasonal language might not be inclusive to those in the Southern Hemisphere.Credit: Richard Drury/Getty Hello from the Southern Hemisphere, where the days are getting longer and temperatures are rising. Yet, despite the clear signs of spring here, we find ourselves inundated with invitations to events that speak of fall or autumn, or…