Rare genetic diseases can now be detected in patients, and tumor-specific mutations identified — a milestone made possible by DNA sequencing, which transformed biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, the introduction of new sequencing technologies (next-generation sequencing) has driven a wave of breakthroughs. During 2020 and 2021, for instance,Continue Reading
A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. Now, thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work —Continue Reading
New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought and provided an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old mystery about our nearest star. Solar flares are sudden and huge releases of energy in the Sun’s outer atmosphere thatContinue Reading
This post was written with Felipe Monroy, Ana Jaime, and Nikita Gordeev from Snoonu. Managing a massive product catalog in the ecommerce space has introduced new hurdles for retailers who are trying to efficiently connect customers with the items they truly want. Traditional one-size-fits-all approaches often result in lost opportunitiesContinue Reading
Finance analysts across Amazon Finance face mounting complexity in financial planning and analysis processes. When working with vast datasets spanning multiple systems, data lakes, and business units, analysts encounter several critical challenges. First, they spend significant time manually browsing data catalogs and reconciling data from disparate sources, leaving less timeContinue Reading
Healthcare discovery on ecommerce domains presents unique challenges that traditional product search wasn’t designed to handle. Unlike searching for books or electronics, healthcare queries involve complex relationships between symptoms, conditions, treatments, and services, requiring sophisticated understanding of medical terminology and customer intent. This challenge became particularly relevant for Amazon asContinue Reading
Drug discovery is a complex, time-intensive process that requires researchers to navigate vast amounts of scientific literature, clinical trial data, and molecular databases. Life science customers like Genentech and AstraZeneca are using AI agents and other generative AI tools to increase the speed of scientific discovery. Builders at these organizationsContinue Reading
A chance discovery led a team of scientists from Rice University, University of Cambridge and Stanford University to streamline the production of a material widely used in medical research and computing applications. For over two decades, scientists working with a composite material known as PEDOT:PSS, used a chemical crosslinker toContinue Reading
Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new measurements, published in Nano Letters, could be used to advanceContinue Reading
MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI models or come up with new ones. For instance, the researchers used their frameworkContinue Reading
