Computer-aided Systems May Speed up New Anticancer Drug Development
Researchers analyzed different subareas of CADD process with a focus on anticancer drugs.
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Novel Algorithm Proposed for Sensory Event Detection via Flexible Film Electrodes
Researchers proposed an optimized deep learning algorithm for detecting sensory events occurring during stimulation of the nerves using a stretchable and flexible electrocorticography (ECoG) electrode.
China’s Semiconductor Boom: 72 Chip Companies Receive CN ¥26.7 Billion in 2020
According to Chinese media Zhidongxi, from the second quarter of this year to July 23, public record shows 77 semiconductor-related financing activities in China.
Chinese Scientists Reveal Brain Circuit Mechanism Under Anxiogenic Situations
Researchers revealed a circuit mechanism, in which BNST modulated the NAc, exerting a direct effect on anxiety.
“Smart” Polymers Design Empowers Actuators With Biological Characters
Interactive sensors and actuators, with the “intelligence” of sensing the environment and responding accordingly, are essential for human-machine interaction. However, it remains a critical challenge for a long time.
Will Artificial Brain Synapses & Neuromorphic Computing Open the Next AI Hardware Frontier?
There are one trillion synapses in a cubic centimeter of the brain. If there is such a thing as General AI, it would probably require one trillion synapses.
Scientists Use Phononic Crystals to Make Dynamic Acoustic Tweezers
Researchers have addressed the challenge of comprehensive, dynamic manipulation of particles and cells in a microchannel by integrating acoustofluidics, physics and fabrication of phononic crystals on the microscale.
Smart Contact Lens Sensor Developed for Point-Of-Care Eye Health Monitoring
A research group from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a “smart” contact lens that can show real-time changes in moisture and pressure by altering colors.
Researchers Design Robots with Tiny Soft Body and Great Carrying Capacity
Cruciform Thin-film Microrobot (CTM) could realize double-modal motion and environmental adaptive functions through a programmable external magnetic field.
Turing Award | A Deep Dive Into Levoy and Hanrahan’s 1996 Paper on Light Field Rendering
In the seminal 1996 paper Light Field Rendering, Levoy and Hanrahan describe a representation for light fields that allows for both efficient creation and display.
CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations Into Illustrative Diagrams
A team of researchers from CMU and Technion recently introduced a new system, Penrose, that can turn complex mathematical notations into various styles of simple diagrams.
New LaTeX.CSS Library Enables Websites to Look Like LaTeX Docs
Zurich-based student and aspiring full-stack software engineer Vincent Dörig has taken LaTeX to the website level with his GitHub project LaTeX.css.
Westlake University Researchers Show How SARS-CoV-2 Binds to Human Cells
Respected journal Science Magazine has published COVID-19 research that identifies the viral entry attachment stage for the new coronavirus.
Folding@Home: How Your PC Can Help in the Fight Against COVID-19
The new goal of the Folding@home project is modelling the structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to identify sites that can be targeted by a therapeutic antibody.
Learning From the 1854 Cholera Outbreak: Tracking and Containing COVID-19 Using AI Spatiotemporal Analysis
“In epidemiology analysis, the relationship between people in space and time is very important,” explains Bao Jie, head of the JD Group city data management platform, “and human activity trajectories are a typical form of spatiotemporal data.”
A Look at ‘Escaping From Saddle Points on Riemannian Manifolds’
A new paper from the University of Washington Seattle and the University of California, Berkeley looks at saddle points on Riemannian Manifolds. In this article Synced takes a deep dive into this important research.
Introducing ‘DiffTaichi’ – A Differentiable Programming Language Tailored for Physical Simulation
Researchers have proposed DiffTaichi, a new differentiable programming language based on Taichi and specially tailored for building high-performance differentiable physical simulators.
‘Brains Are Amazing’ – Neuroscientists Discover L2/3 Human Neurons Can Compute the XOR Operation
New research now suggests scientists may have severely underestimated the power and potential of our neurons.