AI Methods

Under Net Zero, Dam Reservoirs Would Become the Energy Sector's Top Emitter by 2050 Greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs would account for 87% of energy-sector emissions by 2050 if the rest of…

From a satellite's usual vantage, the seam where Alaska's boreal forest gives way to open tundra looks like a smudge, a gradual fade from green to brown across hundreds of miles. Up close it is…

Take a climate model that runs on one supercomputer, move it to another, and you are not guaranteed to get the same climate back. Massonnet and colleagues, writing in Geoscientific Model Development…

A deep-learning model can estimate wave conditions about a kilometer off the coast from coarse global offshore data, a team at Sun Yat-sen University reports in Communications Earth & Environment. In…

One program in this benchmark never looks at the data. It ignores the step counts, the sleep hours and the resting heart rates, and returns the same number every time: the average score in the data…

Tencent released Hy4 preview on Aug. 28 and published the model's weights on Hugging Face, where the repository carries an Apache 2.0 license, terms that permit commercial use, modification and…

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have mapped the protein partners of 100 genes strongly associated with autism spectrum disorder and report more than 1,800 interactions…

A student writes her own argument and asks a chatbot to tidy the sentences. Another asks the chatbot for the argument, then rewrites every line in his own voice. Hand both essays to an AI-text…

Ask a modern weather model what Wednesday will look like and it will tell you, accurately enough that leading forecasting centers have begun running these systems operationally. Ask it what Monday…

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg report a hip-fracture risk model built entirely from Swedish national registry records, with no questionnaire, bone scan or clinic visit. The model scored…

Researchers at the University of York report that patterns in brain activity recorded while people learned word-and-picture pairs differed depending on whether those pairs were still remembered after…

Nature Machine Intelligence published a peer-reviewed method on Aug. 28 that trains a language model to report how uncertain it is, then uses that uncertainty to decide which chemistry experiment to…