Utah-based ARUP Laboratories developed an AI tool that excels at detecting parasites in stool samples. Working with University of Utah pathologists and university startup called Techcyte demonstrate the power of the tool, opening the way for potentially transforming how intestinal infections are diagnosed. 

The first analysis of recent extinctions across plants and animals finds that, contrary to previous studies, the rate at which many groups of organisms have gone extinct has declined over the last 100 years. The research also revealed that the patterns and causes of these past extinctions differed from current and future threats, making it problematic to extrapolate them into the future: While past extinctions were predominantly due to invasive species on islands, habitat destruction presents the greatest threat currently.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing a drone with flapping wings that can locate and hover around a moving light like a moth to a flame.