machine learning

Small earthquakes (magnitude 2) occur several hundred times a day, with larger ones happening about once a year. But as more and more of the world is urbanized, even moderate earthquakes can cause devastation within cities. As part of…

While it may seem that women’s health issues are covered by the separate OB/GYN specialty, there’s a lot more involved in eliminating sexism in medical practice than focusing solely on the reproductive system and its diseases. Recently,…

COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way the world works—in some cases permanently. And, in a sense, some of the changes have even been for the better—particularly some of the new uses we’re finding for technology. Some of the coolest…

Machine learning takes time, exposure to massive data sets, and a lot of computing power to handle tremendous volumes of data. In 2016, a supercomputer beat the world champion in Go, a complicated board game. How? By using reinforcement…

With almost three million people infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria or fungi, resulting in 35,000 annual deaths in the U.S., we need to do something to ensure people don’t come down with difficult-to-treat pneumonia, bloodstream…

Between a quarter and a half million Americans who can’t speak sign, and the majority of them use American Sign Language. Recently, UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English…

The emerging field of soft robotics is focused on creating robots capable of close machine-human interactions, which means allowing robots to adapt to their surroundings and to mimic the motion, function, and adaptability of biological…

Analysis of nearly 30 years of species reintroduction studies using off-the-shelf machine learning, natural language processing and sentiment analysis will help us maximize our conservation dollars and could lead to greater success in…

As science fiction and infectious disease specialists have been predicting for decades, the coronavirus pandemic has caught us with our pants down (no toilet-paper hoarding double-entendres intended). Social isolation on its own is not…

There are so many possible variables in battery performance that testing of new technologies at every stage of the battery development process can take months or even years. And battery performance can make or break the electric vehicle…