In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers used AI to help understand how quickly fluid circulates around the brain to wash away metabolic waste that is linked to diseases such as Alzheimer's.

A team at Polytechnique Montréal has opened the door to a new generation of photonic chips that could cut the electricity use of data centres and generative AI systems. The work is published today in Science Advances, part of the Science family of journals.

Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, who designs AI-based tools to study movement in fields ranging from neuroscience to plant biology, joins the faculty as assistant professor. Julie Law, who studies how epigenetics influences human and plant health, has been promoted from associate professor to full professor.

People are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day — through the products they use, the food they eat and the environments they live in — but only a fraction of those chemicals have been fully tested for safety.

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are turning to artificial intelligence to help close that gap, using new tools to predict chemical toxicity and determine how much those predictions can be trusted.

Battery electrolytes aren’t just one chemical, but a complex mixture of salts, solvents and additives interacting and reacting with each other. Artificial intelligence has made great headway in helping select ideal materials to go into that chemical soup. But a team from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) is using AI to generate the entire formulation, balancing the complicated tradeoffs and interactions that go into the electrolytes that make batteries possible. The research was published in JACS Au. It is the next step in the Amanchukwu Lab’s ongoing development of generative AI for battery work.

A recently published collection of writings on perennial agriculture, “Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods“ (Princeton University Press), makes a cultural argument as much as an agricultural one: that perennial foods — crops that return year after year, building deep root systems and healthier soil — represent not just a different way of farming but a different way of belonging to the earth. The collection includes a contribution from Megan Kaminski, poet and professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas.