Camera system sheds new light on bird collisions at sea
Research into bird collisions with offshore wind turbines has taken an important step forward. A yearlong pilot study at an offshore wind turbine has shown that thermal cameras and artificial intellig
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30.09.2026
Unlocking AI as a research tool for plant microscopy
Software created by University of Queensland scientists could help AI platforms overcome a blind spot limiting their value in plant research. UQ Ph.D. student Tianqi Wei said even advanced vision-lang
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30.09.2026
Study finds trust is the missing ingredient for AI-driven food safety
Artificial intelligence promises to transform food safety by helping companies identify risks earlier, predict outbreaks and learn from patterns too rare for any one company to detect alone. But AI de
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29.09.2026
AI identifies Senegal's smallholder crops 84% of the time using limited training data
Food in Senegal is mostly grown on small-scale, rain-dependent farms, leaving much of the population vulnerable to climate shocks, according to the World Food Programme. However, satellite crop-mappin
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29.09.2026
What drives continuous use of AI-generated music? Insights from a hybrid SEM–ANN approach
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29.09.2026
AI news coverage reveals hierarchy of innovators, regulators and overlooked regions
Analyzing more than 43,000 English-language newspaper articles, a new study reveals a highly stratified narrative about AI in which the news media allocate authority unequally, reinforcing the technol
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29.09.2026
Study examines risks companies face when relying too heavily on AI systems
A new framework for thinking about artificial intelligence at work starts with a question companies have spent relatively little time asking.
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28.09.2026
Why higher prices can be a double-edged sword for digital services
Paying a steeper price for a subscription service can trigger a familiar impulse: You want to get your money's worth. For companies selling AI tools, cloud computing and other digital services, that c
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28.09.2026
Crop protection: A new method for understanding insect sexual communication
A team of INRAE scientists, in collaboration with Université Côte d'Azur and Nanjing Agricultural University in China, has used an innovative AI-based method to identify the sex pheromone of the lily
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26.09.2026
How cities can go greener in a warming climate
VUB researcher Robbe Neyns has developed artificial intelligence capable of identifying trees down to the species level in satellite and aerial imagery. The technology can help cities better map their
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25.09.2026
The medieval world had its own 'deepfakes'—church officials cited a fake imperial decree for centuries
With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems—a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases o
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25.09.2026
Shared blueprint in aphid proteins helps AI predict their structures
Tiny insects called aphids inject hundreds of mysterious proteins into plants, hijacking the plants' own genomes to build galls: structures made of plant tissue but constructed to the insects' specifi
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24.09.2026
By cutting data layers, researchers create fast, explainable landslide detection AI
Publishing original research in a top-tier academic journal has been an ambition of Arsalaan Ahmad's since he enrolled in an undergraduate computer science program at Cardiff University.
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24.09.2026
Public libraries emerge as key sites for building critical AI literacy
As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly embedded in work, government and everyday life, new research from UAlbany's Center for Technology in Government (CTG) suggests public libraries can
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24.09.2026
AI can help correct medical misinformation—when it uses the right tone
At a time of rampant medical misinformation online, artificial intelligence can do a good job of correcting falsehoods, but the tone of the correction is key, according to new research led by Washingt
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24.09.2026
Unlike many parents, children are fearless around AI
Researchers in UC's College of Arts and Sciences spoke to 41 children ages 5 to 10 after inviting them to play three interactive games with Miko, a commercially available robot that uses generative AI
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24.09.2026
Is AI really getting dangerously out of control?
Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up
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23.09.2026
The psychology of generative AI written before it existed
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23.09.2026
What is your dog really saying? AI is helping researchers decode animal communication
Is a dog's bark simply an expression of emotion, or does it contain specific information that humans cannot understand? Artificial intelligence (AI) can already analyze thousands of animal sounds and
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22.09.2026
Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Researchers have found that we know very little about how artificial intelligence use impacts younger school children's ability to learn and think.
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22.09.2026