Machine learning used to better predict New England floods
New England's a complicated place, especially when it comes to flooding.
Earth Sciences
Dec 3, 2025
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Page 25: Research news on Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence, as a technique, refers to computational methods that enable machines to perform tasks that typically require human cognitive capabilities, such as perception, reasoning, learning, and decision-making. Core AI techniques include search and optimization algorithms, symbolic reasoning and knowledge representation, probabilistic inference, and machine learning approaches such as supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. These techniques often rely on statistical modeling, function approximation, and gradient-based optimization to construct models that generalize from data. AI techniques are implemented in software frameworks, integrated into pipelines for training, validation, and deployment, and are evaluated using task-specific performance metrics and robustness assessments.
Neural network helps detect gunshots from illegal rainforest poaching
Wildlife poaching remains a major conservation concern. Technological advancements have enabled webs of acoustic sensors to be deployed throughout rainforests, creating the possibility of real-time alerts to the sounds of ...
Ecology
Dec 2, 2025
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Flood disaster prediction using multi-scale deep learning and neuro-fuzzy inference
A new algorithmic framework that can predict flooding could help save lives and reduce the devastation as climate change drives more intense and unpredictable rainfall.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2025
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Scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases
More than 300 people across academia and industry spilled into an auditorium to attend a BoltzGen seminar on Thursday, Oct. 30, hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (MIT Jameel Clinic). Headlining ...
Biotechnology
Nov 26, 2025
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Adaptive method helps light-based quantum processors act more like neural networks
Machine learning models called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) power technologies like image recognition and language translation. A quantum counterpart—known as a quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN)—could process ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 25, 2025
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Australia's vast savannas are changing, and AI is showing us how
Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth. Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems—from the sparse grasslands to dense woodlands, forests and wetlands.
Ecology
Nov 25, 2025
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AI quake tools forecast aftershock risk in seconds, study shows
Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a new study suggests. The machine learning models can forecast where, and how many, aftershocks will take place ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2025
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AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient, and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets
Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge on one critical challenge: ...
Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2025
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AI is front and center at COP30
We live in a time often characterized as a polycrisis. One of those crises is human-caused climate change, an issue currently being discussed by delegates at the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil.
Environment
Nov 19, 2025
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Using AI to predict earthquakes: Machine learning detects subtle changes before lab-scale fault failures
Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As these factors often occur ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2025
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