Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, ...
Nature

Advocacy groups as research organizations: the PXE International example

Advocacy organizations for genetic diseases are increasingly becoming involved in biomedical research, particularly translational research, in order to meet the needs of the individuals that they ...
unr.edu

Abstracts | Writing & Speaking Center

If you ever write any sort of research paper, you are likely to need an abstract. But what is an abstract for? What should go into one? What makes one effective? This resource will provide a brief ...
MIT Technology Review

We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.

The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. On the evening of Wednesday, December 2, Timnit Gebru, the co-lead of Google’s ...
Ars Technica

Research AI model unexpectedly attempts to modify its own code to extend runtime

On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar ...
The Conversation

Learning from failures: Support for scientific research needs to include when things don’t work out

Thomas Merritt receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Teresa Rzezniczak does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...
snhu

Academic Referencing: How to Cite a Research Paper

Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...
Education Week

Comparing Paper and Computer Testing: 7 Key Research Studies

Do the computer-based exams that are increasingly prevalent in K-12 education measure skills and knowledge as accurately as traditional paper-based tests? With news that millions of students who took ...