AI learns to help Wikipedia find better citations
On October 19, 2023, researchers mostly from FAIR at Meta published SIDE, an AI system that flags weak Wikipedia citations and recommends better ones.
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MIT model helps AI understand crystals in 3D to find better materials
A new multimodal AI from MIT pairs atomic structures with written descriptions, helping it suggest promising materials such as battery electrolytes.
AI summaries lighten the load for cancer clinicians before first visits
At the Netherlands Cancer Institute, an AI tool that turns messy records into structured summaries cut clinicians' perceived workload in a real world study.
AI agents help Penn State scientists find a new pattern in food physics
Guided by human experts, AI agents gathered more than 4,000 experimental data records from food science papers in 30 minutes and revealed a previously unreported relationship.
Stanford AI helps clinicians follow ICU patients' activity across a whole hospital stay
TRACER combines bedside video with health records so doctors and nurses can see how a patient's movement and behavior change over an ICU stay.
AI helps new radiation oncologists outline prostates more accurately and faster
In a randomized trial presented at ASTRO 2026, trainees using AI generated contours matched expert outlines more closely and finished about 24 percent faster.
Caltech AI learns to spot sudden shifts ahead of time in simulated climate and airflow
A recurrent neural operator predicted the timing of abrupt transitions in simplified models, in one case looking more than two years ahead.
AI design tools create enzymes that cut disease proteins on command
Researchers in David Baker's lab used AI protein design software to build new proteases that slice chosen targets, including proteins tied to dementia.
AI maps how more than 18,000 human proteins move in under two days
An Illinois deep learning model called ESMDynamic predicts protein motion in milliseconds, work that once needed months of supercomputer time.
Patients help train their own seizure detectors by chatting with an AI app
In a Penn Medicine study of 13 people with epilepsy, a phone app let patients ask about their brain activity and flag false alarms so the system could learn.
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