Tuesday 10 November
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Engineers have built and measured standardised parts on 300-millimetre silicon wafers that steer light from deep violet to the near-infrared.
Tracking every atom often hides big-picture physics. Simplified models strip away unnecessary details to reveal the core rules that shape new materials.
A hybrid AI system combining traditional machine learning with a large language model reached 98 percent near-agreement with doctors when grading surgical risk. By reading messy doctor notes alongside raw lab data, the model avoided missing the sickest patients.
A major review synthesises how marine life creates and destroys DMSP, an abundant sulfur compound that feeds ocean food webs and shapes climate-cooling gases.
A pole-to-pole ocean survey reveals that microscopic plankton carry an unexpected variety of blue-light sensors, with roots tracing back to ancestors that never performed photosynthesis.
By combining wearable optical fibres with a thermal camera, an algorithm tracked stress levels across 20 participants with up to 94.75% accuracy.
