EAPS researchers modeled how hydroxyl radicals, which break down methane, will respond to a changing climate. “There’s a whole range of environmental reasons why we want to understand what’s going on with this molecule,” Arlene Fiore says.
Mathematicians have discovered how mosquitoes adjust their flight patterns in response to visual and chemical cues. “Now that we have a model, we can start to design more intelligent traps,” Alexander Cohen says.
A new sensor can detect compounds in a person’s breath to quickly diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions. Rather than sit for a chest X-ray or wait hours for a lab result, a patient may one day take a breath test and get a diagnosis within minutes.
Can AI help patients and their doctors manage heart failure? Researchers developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.
On a typical photonic chip, light travels in wires, but a new system precisely broadcasts light off the chip into free space in a scalable way. This could lead to advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers.
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