University of Virginia associate professor Homa Alemzadeh and her colleagues at William & Mary and George Mason University aim to systematically find and fix safety vulnerabilities in autonomous vehicle systems.

Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations looking to improve their voice recognition devices.

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? This paper  cuts directly into critical debates about how the ancient spinal cord and the relatively new human brain interact to produce smooth movements and how some neurological conditions disrupt this fine balance and produce slow, inaccurate, jerky, etc. movements in neurological conditions.It adds to the thought leadership about the processing of sensory information and control of reflexes during voluntary movements—with implications as to how its disruption could give rise to motor disorders in neurological conditions like stroke, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson’s disease.

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. Using Keck observations, a UC Berkeley team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system resembling what our sun-Earth system will look like in 8 billion years. The good news: the planet survived its star's red giant phase, so maybe Earth will too. The bad news: it's still uninhabitable.

The key insight with a new strategy for training protein engineering models, called EvoRank, is to harness the natural variations of millions of proteins generated by evolution over deep time and extract the underlying dynamics needed for workable solutions to biotech challenges.

Iowa State's Valery Levitas and his collaborators have used pressure with a twisting shear to permanently deform silicon, an important material for electronics. The resulting changes in silicon's microstructure produce material phases that feature different and potentially useful properties.

Following a cybersecurity breach that compromised data in 2023, Kennesaw State University researcher Xinyue Zhang is looking for better privacy solutions to protect personal information using secure AI models.

MIT research suggests Mars’ missing atmosphere — which dramatically diminished 3.5 billion years ago — could be locked in the planet’s clay-covered crust. Water on Mars could have set off a chain reaction that drew CO2 out of the atmosphere and converted it into methane within clay minerals.