EurekAlert! In the Spotlight - Artificial Intelligence

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

KU researcher examines the ties between language and emotion

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Based on their deep dive into research on language and emotion, Katie Hoemann and her colleagues propose a new paradigm for future investigations: distributing the experience of language and emotion into three aspects — “attention,” “construal” and “appraisal.”

Journal: Communications Psychology

19-Aug-2025

MIT researchers develop a new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using machine learning, MIT chemical engineers have created a computational model that can predict how well any given molecule will dissolve in an organic solvent — a key step in the synthesis of nearly any pharmaceutical — which could make it much easier to develop new ways to produce drugs and other useful molecules.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

19-Aug-2025

AI hybrid strategy improves mammogram interpretation

Radiological Society of North America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography, developed by Dutch researchers and deployed retrospectively to more than 40,000 exams, reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection rates. The study, which emphasizes AI confidence, was published today.

Journal: Radiology

19-Aug-2025

Clean hydrogen’s iridium problem? Solved in an afternoon

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New material rivals iridium for water splitting reaction at a fraction of the cost. Discovered using megalibraries, a high-speed materials synthesis and discovery tool, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Findings demonstrate a faster, AI-ready approach to discover advanced, optimized materials.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: Army Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Toyota Research Institute

19-Aug-2025

A comprehensive survey of orbital edge computing: Systems, applications, and algorithms

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The number of satellites, especially those operating in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), has been exploding in recent years. Additionally, the burgeoning development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and hardware has opened up new industrial opportunities in both air and space, with satellite-powered computing emerging as a new computing paradigm: Orbital Edge Computing (OEC). Compared to terrestrial edge computing, the mobility of LEO satellites and their limited communication, computation, and storage resources pose challenges in designing task-specific scheduling algorithms.

Journal: Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

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KU researcher examines the ties between language and emotion

MIT researchers develop a new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents

AI hybrid strategy improves mammogram interpretation

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