Science & Technology
A simpler path to better computer vision
Research finds using a large collection of simple, un-curated synthetic image generation programs to pretrain a computer vision model for image classification yields greater accuracy than employing other pretraining methods that are more costly and tim…
Using vapes may set the stage for dental decay
Researchers have found that patients who said they used vaping devices were more likely to have a higher risk of developing cavities.
CAR T cell therapy reaches beyond cancer
Investigators have reported highly promising early results for CAR T therapy in a small set of patients with the autoimmune disease lupus.
Genome studies uncover a new branch in fungal evolution
About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that had resisted categorization have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a a research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures a new classification home.