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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Dec-2025 11:11 ET (22-Dec-2025 16:11 GMT/UTC)

AI in primary care: experts warn of safety risks as tech outpaces regulation

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

From digital scribes to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering GP clinics. New University of Sydney research warns that technology is racing ahead of safety checks, putting patients and health systems at risk.

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre

Exposing the most dangerous dams in the US

American Geophysical Union
Reports and Proceedings

Dams across the United States may have crumbling infrastructure hidden from view of safety inspectors, according to new research to be presented at AGU’s 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, 18 December.

Video: Drivers struggle to multitask when using dashboard touch screens, study finds

University of Washington
Reports and Proceedings

New research from the UW and the Toyota Research Institute explores how drivers trade off between cognitive tasks, driving and using vehicle touch screens. Researchers placed participants in a driving simulator and had them complete memory tests while interacting with the simulator’s touch screen.

To get lifelike movement from synthetic materials, researchers can embrace chaos

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemical reactions that are sensitive to force could help power engineered materials that beat, twitch and shiver like living tissue for new applications in robotics and other technologies

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research

Membrane magic: FAMU-FSU researchers repurpose fuel cells membranes for new applications

Florida State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers examined how boiling PFSA polymer membranes — a common treatment applied to the material — affects their performance and helps them work as specialized tools for different applications.

Journal: Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology
Funder: Florida State University

New crystallization and microgel technology advances biohybrid brain research

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Hyunjoon Kong and chemistry professor Hee Sun Han, and performed by Ryan Miller, currently a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Tech, have unveiled a breakthrough technology that could transform the way scientists build and study lab-grown brain tissue models.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

Bias in data may be blocking AI’s potential to combat antibiotic resistance

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Machine learning methods have emerged as promising tools to predict antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and uncover resistance determinants from genomic data. This study shows that sampling biases driven by population structure severely undermine the accuracy of AMR prediction models even with large datasets, providing recommendations for evaluating the accuracy of future methods.

Journal: PLOS Biology

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