🤖 Computer Science

Predicting Question Quality on StackOverflow with Neural Networks

Researchers evaluated neural network models to predict question quality on Stack Overflow, a key platform for computing solutions.

Generative AI comes to gene editing

Profluent Bio utilized generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create novel gene editors, as outlined in a recent preprint. Their researchers trained the ProGen2 large language model on a vast dataset of Cas9 gene-editing proteins sourced from the CRISPR-Cas Atlas database.

⚛️ Physics and Chemistry

A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath.

Ultrasensitive photonic crystal detects single particles down to 50 nanometers

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed an ultrasensitive photonic crystal capable of detecting single particles as small as 50 nanometers in diameter. Their findings, published in Optica, mark a significant advancement in particle detection technology.

🧬 Biology & Medicine

Bird Flu Traces in Store Bought Milk

Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe.

Circadian rhythms can influence drugs’ effectiveness

MIT researchers find circadian variations in liver function play an important role in how drugs are broken down in the body.

Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’

After more than five decades since Bob Paine's starfish experiment, numerous species have been identified as "keystones" in their ecosystems. However, there's a question about whether this powerful metaphor still holds its original mathematical significance.

🔭 Space & Astronomy

Watch China launch 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station

China will launch its latest set of crewmembers to Tiangong space station today (April 25) at 8:59 AM EDT, and you can watch the action live.

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