The introduction of AI into mathematics represents a seismic shift in what it means to do math.
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Rates of Unbalanced Chromosome Rearrangements Associated with Pericentric and Paracentric Inversions: Analysis of Molecular Chromosome Results in Embryo Samples
PGT-SR reveals that even small pericentric and paracentric inversions carry a small but measurable reproductive risk, challenging assumptions of minimal impact in IVF outcomes.
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AI is homogenizing human expression and thought, computer scientists and psychologists say
AI chatbots are standardizing how people speak, write, and think. If this homogenization continues unchecked, it risks reducing humanity’s collective wisdom and ability to adapt, computer scientists and psychologists argue in an opinion paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
They say that AI developers should incorporate more real-world diversity into large language model (LLM) training sets, not only to help preserve human cognitive diversity, but also to improve chatbots’ reasoning abilities.
What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?
What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.
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Human brain and AI speech recognition decode speech in similar step-by-step stages, study finds
Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate the brain processes via which humans understand spoken language, however, has not yet been clearly determined.
Researchers at Columbia University, IBM Research and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research recently carried out a study aimed at comparing how automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and the human brain decode speech. Their findings, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, suggest that activity in specific brain regions while people make sense of spoken language corresponds to specific stages in the processing of speech by AI models.
“The core mystery we wanted to solve is how the human brain performs the incredible computational feat of turning raw acoustic vibrations, the sounds of speech, into discrete linguistic meaning,” Nima Mesgarani, senior author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. “We now have AI systems that match human performance in transcribing speech, but we didn’t know if they were reaching those solutions independently or if they had converged on the same strategy as our biology.”
Brain-inspired device could lead to faster, more energy-efficient AI hardware
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a new brain-inspired hardware platform that could help computer hardware keep pace with the explosive growth of artificial intelligence. By combining memory and computation on the same chip—and allowing its components to interact collectively like neurons in the brain—the brain-inspired platform improved the speed, accuracy, and energy efficiency of pattern recognition in two simulated tasks: recognizing spoken digits and detecting epileptic seizures early from brain-wave recordings.
The approach could lead to the development of compact, energy-efficient hardware for smaller AI systems such as those used in wearable health monitors, smart sensors, and other autonomous devices.
The work, published on March 9 in Nature Nanotechnology, falls within the field of neuromorphic computing, which aims to build machines that mimic how the brain processes information. The researchers emphasize that the technology is brain-inspired, rather than brain-like; it draws ideas from how neural networks interact but does not attempt to replicate the brain itself.
Plastic Responses to Single and Combined Environmental Stresses in a Highly Chemodiverse Aromatic Plant Species
🚱Plants face various environmental stresses, to which they respond in different ways. Due to climate change, it is expected that plants will encounter increased phases of drought and changes in herbivory.
🐛This study thus aimed to evaluate the intra-individual variation in responses, that is phenotypic plasticity, to single and combined stresses, including drought and insect herbivory. Authors used plants of the aromatic species Tanacetum vulgare, which are characterized by distinct terpenoid chemotypes and metabolic fingerprints shaped by maternal origin. Clones were exposed to no stress, drought, herbivory, or a combination of both.
⚗️The impacts of these treatments were determined in terms of aboveground biomass as well as emission rates or concentrations, richness, and functional Hill diversity (FHD) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), stored leaf and root terpenoids, and leaf metabolic fingerprints.
📊Drought resulted in lower plant aboveground biomass, VOC richness, and VOC FHD. Herbivory had no effect on biomass, but increased the VOC emission rates and richness, also in combination with drought. The treatment significantly affected the phenotypic plasticity of the aboveground biomass and VOC emission.
👉These findings highlight the importance of studying intra-individual variation in plant responses to different stresses and their combinations to fully comprehend the finely tuned chemodiversity.
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Stacked quantum materials enable precise spin control without external magnetic fields
Spintronics—a technology that harnesses the electron’s magnetic quantum states to carry information—could pave the way for a new generation of ultra-energy-efficient electronics. Yet a major challenge has been the ability to control these delicate quantum properties with sufficient precision for practical applications. By combining different quantum materials, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken a decisive step forward, achieving unprecedented control over spin phenomena. The advance opens the door to next-generation low-power data processing and memory technologies.
Data centers, cloud services, AI and connected systems account for a rapidly growing share of global energy consumption. In the quest for new, more energy-efficient technological solutions, spin electronics, or spintronics, has proven to be a new and promising approach. Instead of relying solely on the movement of electric charge, spintronics use magnetic states to carry information. More specifically, it takes advantage of a quantum property of electrons known as spin, which makes electrons behave like tiny magnets.
“Just like a compass needle, an electron’s spin can point in one of two directions—up or down. These two directions can be used to represent digital information, in the same way today’s electronics use 0s and 1s,” explains Saroj Dash, Professor of Quantum Device Physics at Chalmers University of Technology.
Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents
Hintze, A., Adami, C. Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents. npj Complex 3, 3 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44260-025-00065-9