Can modern genetics help us restore the Appalachian forests of the 1800s?

Those trees are central to one of the efforts to restore the American chestnut. If enough of them have distinct means of ...

Why some forests unlock more soil phosphorus: Elevation, soil pH and calcium stand out

Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to ...

AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions

At the end of 2024, no AI had even managed to place 100th in one of the major competitions. But they have since vaulted up ...

Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures

New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.