The DNA foundation model Evo 2, first released in February 2025 as a preprint, is now published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across the entire tree of life, Evo 2 ...

Small variations in DNA sequence can alter an organism’s response to the environment or susceptibility to disease. Interpreting the impact of genome sequence variation remains a research challenge.

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The accurate treatment of many-unpaired-electron systems remains a central challenge ...

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Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, explains how it builds on Adam with Nesterov momentum, and shows you how to ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. Scientists ...

This code was used for the AIMC'25 paper "Using Large Language Models as Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Algorithms for Music Generation". The code was tested on Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 and ...

A new algorithm enabled smartwatch fitness trackers to more accurately estimate energy expenditure by individuals with obesity. In two studies conducted in a total of 52 people for 1838 minutes in a ...

For many, fitness trackers have become indispensable tools for monitoring how many calories they've burned in a day. But for those living with obesity, who are known to exhibit differences in walking ...

People with obesity exhibit differences in walking gait, speed, energy burn and more Research team created an open-source, dominant-wrist algorithm specifically tuned for people with obesity Scientist ...