British biochemist Professor Frederick Sanger was awarded his second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980. He is only the third person to win Nobel Prizes for science in the history of he awards and ...

Chief Data Scientist at Reorg, a global provider of credit intelligence, data and analytics, and Adjunct at UVA’s School of Data Science. Text data is one of the largest forms of unstructured data and ...

The company is making a foray into scientific discovery with an AI built to help manufacture stem cells. When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google ...

Researchers have developed a model that enables computers to interpret and understand human emotions, utilizing principles of mathematical psychology. In the future, the model can help the computer to ...

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it?

When Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced its latest open-source large language model (LLM) on July 23rd, it claimed that the most powerful version of Llama 3.1 had “state-of-the-art ...

The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study of octopus arms.

IN ARIZONA, AT Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent three years building a three-dimensional map of the heavens. In examining the light from tens of millions of galaxies, the Dark ...

Jacob Dreyer is an editor for business, economics, politics and law at Palgrave (a subsidiary of Springer Nature), based in Shanghai, China. The views expressed here are his own. An increasing number ...