A novel, multimodal approach to automated speaking skill assessment
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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.
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Nov-2025 20:11 ET (7-Nov-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)
Professor WANG Qi (王琦), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and National Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Master, recently published a pivotal article titled “From digits to digitization: the past, present, and future of traditional Chinese medicine” in Digital Chinese Medicine. Centered on Xiangshu (象数, phenotype-numerology) philosophy, the article systematically explores pathways for deep integration between TCM and digital technology, validating this approach through research breakthroughs by his team and peers.
Four members of the Texas A&M University faculty will receive $1.6 million in DARPA funds to create a system for rapidly accelerating the process that determines the quality and expected lifespan of 3D-printed components used by the military. This new approach to predicting lifespan will increase the speed at which parts are made and deployed in critical applications and accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies in the form of more 3D printers at Department of Defense (DOD) bases. It will also provide millions of dollars in savings for the DOD.
Miskov-Zivanov's novel approach and the development of an automated system that leverages AI and knowledge graphs to design more effective lymphocytes, she hopes to transform the design of life-saving immunotherapies.
A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified a diagnostic aid that has the potential to accurately predict the recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers that appear to be fully healed. By measuring the skin’s barrier function through a process known as trans-epidermal water loss, or TEWL, scientists were able to determine which wounds were more likely to reopen. TEWL measurements are a major factor in burn care, where deep layers of the skin are often damaged. The findings suggest that full restoration of skin barrier function should be incorporated into existing wound treatment standards to ensure complete wound closure and to better identify patients at risk of wound recurrence.
On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a long-term observatory situated between Svalbard and Greenland. There they will investigate how the ecosystems of the Arctic deep sea are reacting to changing environmental conditions as a result of rapid climate change. The month-long expedition, which is scheduled to finish in Tromsø, Norway, at the end of June, will focus on benthic and plankton communities in the open water and physical changes in the ocean.