AI tools are transforming how we observe the world around us — and even the stars beyond. Recently, an international team proved that deep learning techniques and large language models can help astronomers classify stars with high accuracy and efficiency. Their study, “Deep Learning and Methods Based on Large Language Models Applied to Stellar Light Curve Classification,” was published Feb. 26 in Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal.

A recent study introduces a groundbreaking method for early crop identification, leveraging the Bayesian Probability Update Model (BPUM). 

In a paper published in Research, a team of scientists present a new circuit design to display quantum two-player games. Compared with the classical algorithms to solve two-player game, the algorithm for the two-player games is dependent on continuous-time quantum walk, and exhibits quantum advantage. Besides, such design of quantum two-player games has been realized on the circuit networks according to the analogy between the wave function of the Schrödinger equation and the voltage in Kirchhoff's law.

In October 2024, Prof. Xiaozhen Li from Northwestern Polytechnical University reported the recent advancement in conjugated small molecular nanoparticles (CSMNs) for near-infrared phototheranostics (NIR PTs). The article focused on the recent progress in CSMNs for NIR biological imaging, therapy, and synergistic phototheranostics, elucidating their working mechanisms from two perspectives, including photophysical and photochemical principles and light-tissue interactions. The molecular structures, structural types, optical properties, phototheranostic (PT) modes, and specific applications of PT agents based on conjugated small molecules (CSMs) were comprehensively summarized, with an emphasis on strategies for improving performances and extending absorption and emission wavelengths to the NIR range. A brief conclusion, current challenges, and possible prospects of CSMNs were finally presented. This review was published in the journal of Research titled with “Finely-Tailored Conjugated Small Molecular Nanoparticles for Near-Infrared Biomedical Applications” (Research, 2024, DOI:10.34133/research.0534).