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Major EU project will harness AI and genomics for disease prevention

Jan 18, 2021

The project focuses on developing improved genetic risk scores and testing their clinical validity. Genetic risk scores are statistical tools generated based on genome-wide profiling of individuals and the effects...

Using artificial intelligence to manage extreme weather events

Jan 18, 2021

Can combining deep learning (DL)— a subfield of artificial intelligence— with social network analysis (SNA), make social media contributions about extreme weather events a useful tool for crisis managers, first...

FBI probing if foreign governments, groups funded extremists who helped execute Capitol attack

Jan 17, 2021

WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether foreign governments, organizations or individuals provided financial support to extremists who helped plan and execute the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, one...

Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump

Jan 17, 2021

The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the...

After a year of civil unrest, the U.S. is running low on body armor and gas masks

Jan 16, 2021

A retailer in Oregon has sold out of decontamination wipes designed to remove chemical agents such as pepper spray. Customers cleaned out thousands of pieces of body armor from a...

Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds

Jan 16, 2021

Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. They attached GPS-accelerometers—Fitbit for birds -- onto kittiwakes to track their flight performance, discovering that...

National Guard at Capitol Authorized to Use Lethal Force in Aftermath of Mob

Jan 16, 2021

The 20,000 National Guard troops preparing for pro-Trump demonstrations this weekend in the nation's capital will be armed and permitted to use lethal force, the headquarters overseeing them says, marking...

DNA test can quickly identify pneumonia in patients with severe COVID-19, aiding faster treatment

Jan 16, 2021

Patients who need mechanical ventilation are at significant risk of developing secondary pneumonia while they are in intensive care. Due to the amount of lung damage, these severe COVID-19 cases...

Professor Antonio Torralba elected 2021 AAAI Fellow

Jan 15, 2021

Antonio Torralba, faculty head of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering...

Following the hops of disordered proteins could lead to future treatments of Alzheimer’s disease

Jan 15, 2021

The results, reported in the journal Nature Computational Science, could aid in the future development of treatments for diseases involving disordered proteins, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. The...