A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

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Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

A new operation at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland is designed to run microbial analysis largely with ...

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Top AI researchers like Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are developing world models, which don't rely solely on language.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

Tiiny AI argues that today’s real AI bottleneck is not computing power but our reliance on the cloud. GTM director Samar Bhoj says, “intelligence shouldn’t belong to data centers, but to people.” By ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...