How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger......»»
Egg "signatures" allow drongos to identify cuckoo "forgeries" almost every time, study finds
African cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed drongo, which scientists predict can detect and reject cuckoo eggs from their nest on almost every occasion, despite them on average looking almost identical to drongo eggs......»»
ChatGPT creator pulls AI detection tool due to "low rate of accuracy"
Less than six months after ChatGPT-creator OpenAI unveiled an AI detection tool with the potential to help teachers and other professionals detect AI generated work, the company has pulled the feature......»»
Even OpenAI has given up trying to detect ChatGPT plagiarism
AI chatbot ChatGPT can be used to craft well-hidden plagiarism, yet its maker OpenAI has just shut down the very tool it created to detect AI-written content......»»
New sensor mimics cell membrane functions, may enable screening of hard-to-diagnose cancers
Drawing inspiration from natural sensory systems, an MIT-led team has designed a novel sensor that could detect the same molecules that naturally occurring cell receptors can identify......»»
Tourists help scientists reveal microplastic pollution on remote Arctic beaches
Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches. The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean curr.....»»
PandaX sets new constraints on the search for light dark matter via ionization signals
Teams of physicists worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light. Due to its lack of interactions with electromagnetic forces, this matter is very difficult to observe direct.....»»
Paris 2024 Olympics: Concern over French plan for AI surveillance
CCTV will use algorithms to detect fights and abandoned bags - but not everyone is happy about it......»»
New method to search for strongly interacting dark matter inside neutrino detectors
Physicists worldwide are trying to detect dark matter (DM) particles and their interactions with visible matter using various strategies and detectors. As these particles do not emit, reflect or absorb light, they have so far proved to be very diffic.....»»
New method uses existing fiber optic lines to detect, localize and classify environmental events
By changes in the wavelength of light pulses in fiber optic cables, researchers at TU Graz can measure where rockfalls, landslides, fires and earthquakes are taking place......»»
anecdotes Analysis Engine helps users detect gaps in their data
anecdotes launched Analysis Engine, empowering its customers to attain proactive GRC monitoring. With the introduction of the new engine, users gain access to robust analysis capabilities that automatically detect gaps in their data and provide deep.....»»
Webb detects most distant active supermassive black hole to date
It's a bonanza: The universe is absolutely teeming with black holes. Researchers have long known this, but less massive black holes that existed in the early universe were too dim to detect—that is until the James Webb Space Telescope began taking.....»»
Team develops all-species coronavirus test
In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, researchers report they can now detect exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in any animal species. Most coronavirus antibody tests require specialized ch.....»»
Dig Security adds OCR capabilities to detect sensitive customer data in image files
Dig Security announced it has added support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to the Dig Data Security Platform. Dig can now detect sensitive customer data in image files, such as passports and driver’s licenses, that are stored in multi-.....»»
Apple Watch could detect Parkinson"s disease up to 7 years earlier
Smartwatches like the Apple Watch may be able to provide data to AI models that are capable of detecting Parkinson's disease nearly a decade before patients show symptoms.Apple WatchParkinson's disease is a neurological degenerative disease that typi.....»»
Inexpensive and efficient nanosensors can rapidly detect pesticides in fresh orange juice
Karolinska Institutet researchers Georgios Sotiriou and Haipeng Li at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology have developed an inexpensive, fast, and reproducible nanosensor for food safety diagnostics. A new study in the Chemical Eng.....»»
Urine tests identify brain tumors by capturing cancer DNA using nanowires
A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to capture and release cell-free DNA (cfDNA) on nanowire surfaces from urine. By extracting this DNA, they were able to successfully detect IDH1 mutation, a character.....»»
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers detect gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another, they send out ripples in space and time called gravitational waves. These waves are one of the few ways we have to study the enigmatic cosmic giants that create th.....»»
GM buys Israel-based software startup to detect early battery defects
The deal comes at a time when automakers are investing billions in EVs and rushing to develop batteries — which represent up to 50 percent of an EV's price tag — that can power an automobile for a longer duration......»»
Torrent of image-based phishing emails are harder to detect and more convincing
The arms race between scammers and defenders continues. Enlarge / Man hand holding a mobile phone with QR code. (credit: Getty Images) Phishing mongers have released a torrent of image-based junk emails that embed QR cod.....»»
New single-photon Raman lidar is practical for underwater applications
Researchers report a new single-photon Raman lidar system that operates underwater and can remotely distinguish various substances. They also show that the new system can detect the thickness of the oil underwater up to 12 m away, which could be usef.....»»