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Hurricane outages: Analysis details the where, and who, of increased future power cuts

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Georgia and northern Florida are likely to be hardest hit by increasing hurricane-induced power outages along the Atlantic coast in the future, with Hispanic, non-white, low-income and elderly populations most affected, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional expression. In a recent study, published in Media Psychology, researchers asked users to assess such skewed training data, but most users didn’t notice the bias — unless they were in the negatively portrayed group.

Journal: Media Psychology

UC stroke experts discuss current and future use of AI tools in research and treatment

University of Cincinnati
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of stroke physicians, researchers and industry representatives discussed the current use and future of AI in stroke clinical trial design at the Stroke Treatment Academic Industry Roundtable meeting March 28. Led by the University of Cincinnati’s Joseph Broderick, MD, the researchers published an article in the journal Stroke Sept. 30 summarizing the group’s discussion and recommendations.

Journal: Stroke

Taking the shock out of predicting shock wave behavior with precise computational modeling

Yokohama National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Shock waves should not be shocking — engineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage. Now, thanks to a team from YOKOHAMA National University, those predictions are even better understood.

Journal: Physics of Fluids
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Device can detect banned additive in wine, orange juice and mineral water

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos used pieces of cork and lasers to create a mechanism that detects the presence of the substance, which has potential carcinogenic effects, in mineral water, orange juice, and wine.

Journal: Microchimica Acta
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Missing molecule may explain Down syndrome

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Restoring the molecule, called pleiotrophin, could improve brain function in Down syndrome and other neurological diseases – possibly even in adults, the researchers say.

Journal: Cell Reports
Funder: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

WVU engineers recalibrate radio telescopes to illuminate dark energy

West Virginia University
Grant and Award Announcement

Scientists know dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe and is responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion. Beyond that, little about it is certain, so a West Virginia University engineer is enhancing the calibration of radio telescopes that can tell astronomers about dark energy by measuring the “neutral hydrogen” in the universe, a simple form of hydrogen with no net electric charge.