Researchers have introduced an artificial intelligence system that can generate detailed, customized maps that may help governments predict how natural disasters will impact their communities.

A study of nearly 2 million patient records in Taiwan and more than 1.5 million records from over two dozen other countries offered new insights into birth season and psychological health, finding that people born during winter months may be more prone to developing certain mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar I and depression, and providing psychiatrists important clues about the mechanisms that could lead to those disorders.

A team of California Institute of Technology researchers used a neural network model to predict how people will evaluate different works of art, offering new insight into the potential universality of certain aesthetic principles.

New findings suggest that scientists who put more effort toward exploring the best methodologies for their work may be more likely to test hypotheses that push their field forward.

Married people experience longer durations of a deep sleep stage known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that helps form memories and regulate emotions, offering new clues about the potential health implications of marital status.

Researchers have developed a neural network that can generate highly detailed cosmological simulations of dark matter by scaling up massive low-resolution images at speeds a thousand times faster than previous models, allowing scientists to better understand how the universe evolved.

A new system uses ultraviolet light to reprint colors and designs onto objects, allowing artists and developers to quickly preview their creations and test new ideas on tangible items rather than through a digital interface alone.

Researchers are developing a new hypersonic engine based on detonations, which are explosions that send waves at rates faster than the speed of sound, with the ultimate aim of producing a propulsion system for the interplanetary planes and rockets of the future that harnesses the same type of energy emitted by supernovas.

For the first time, researchers observed people avoiding certain body movements due to conditioned pain responses — a phenomenon known as generalized avoidance — extending our understanding of a fundamental principle in behavioral psychology and potentially informing future treatments of chronic pain.

An international team has created a digital system for logging and categorizing new COVID-19 genome sequence data that, at the time of writing, was over 3,000 times faster than its closest competitor, allowing researchers to identify and target potentially dangerous viral strains more efficiently as they emerge in real time.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a system that, after being trained, can create a three-dimensional image of a room, along with the moving objects or people within it, with nothing but a single sensor that sends and receives acoustic and radio waves as they bounce around the space.

Australian welfare support workers, a category including home health aides, nursing aides, and similar occupations that often involve caring for elderly patients and people with disabilities, are roughly 50% more likely to die by suicide than workers in other industries, in line with findings of elevated suicide rates in health care-related sectors such as social work and nursing.