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Researchers at Durham and Northumbria Universities have helped develop an app to better equip frontline practitioners to identify hate incidents and ensure victims get the right support. The Hate ID app will help practitioners in the UK Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner region signpost victims of hate incidents to the most appropriate support service.

Researchers have developed a handheld device that could potentially replace stethoscopes as a tool for detecting certain types of heart disease. This device could become an affordable and scalable solution for heart health screening, especially in areas with limited medical resources Anurag Agarwal The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, developed a device that makes it easy for people with or without medical training to record heart sounds accurately.

A new AI weather prediction system, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based forecasting systems. The system, Aardvark Weather, has been supported by the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.

A new AI system could help prevent elephant poaching in Malaysia, according to researchers at Cardiff University. PoachNet is a new machine-learning tool designed by integrating deep learning, elephant GPS data, and elephant behavioural knowledge, to help predict and prevent poaching in Sabah. Cardiff University research from the School of Computer Science and Informatics and School of Biosciences used machine-learning and a smart database to create a system that can predict poaching risks.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers. Human and AI biases can consequently create a feedback loop, with small initial biases increasing the risk of human error, according to the findings published in Nature Human Behaviour .

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars' moons may have been formed from destroyed asteroid fragments. The researchers found that an asteroid passing near Mars could have been pulled apart by the planet's gravity, with the resulting rock fragments strewn into a range of orbits.

A new advance in health monitoring which uses radar to 'listen' to patients' heart sounds with remarkable accuracy could lead to a new generation of contactless medical monitoring equipment. Researchers from the University of Glasgow led the development of the new system, which uses radar to track patients' heart sounds like a doctor uses a stethoscope.

Machine learning-equipped camera systems can be an effective and low-cost flood defence tool, researchers show Smart CCTV systems trained to spot blockages in urban waterways could become an important future tool in flood prevention, new research published today has found. Researchers at the University of Bath have shown that their AI-enabled detection software, 'AI on The River' trained to accurately detect natural debris, litter or waste blocking trash screens mounted in culverts, can be integrated to existing CCTV systems to provide an early warning of likely flooding.

Researchers have developed a wearable 'smart choker' that uses a combination of flexible electronics and artificial intelligence techniques to allow people with speech impairments to communicate by detecting tiny movements in the throat. The smart choker, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, incorporates electronic sensors in a soft, stretchable fabric, and is comfortable to wear.

New research from the University of Bath shows discrimination against women worsens if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used by lenders for loans but that ethical lenders could choose to tweak the AI algorithms to address this bias and still improve their profits as well as their brand reputation.

A team from Imperial and BASF has won the Computers & Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award 2023 for AI techniques that could boost chemical R&D. The prestigious journal in process systems engineering rated the paper as the best of over 280 published that year. The process of trial and error in chemical R&D is costly, with some experiments taking weeks.

Imperial has received a donation from high performance and adaptive computing company AMD to support research into machine learning. made the donation in recognition of the excellent research of Professor George Constantinides and Dr Aaron Zhao in Imperial's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Research shows 'new chauvinism' characterised by softer, more subtle language New research from the University of Bath has identified a 'new chauvinism', fuelled by a resurgence in right-wing populism, and distinguished by the use of softer, more subtle language than traditional chauvinism. The study focused on language and attitudes in software development, a profession known for perpetuating chauvinistic language.

Stories written with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) have been deemed to be more creative, better written and more enjoyable, according to new research from UCL and the University of Exeter. The study, published in Science Advances , found that AI enhanced creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the 'usefulness' of stories, which describes their ability to engage the target audience and their publication potential.

Researchers analysing data from mobile phone apps used during the COVID-19 pandemic found that digital contact tracing provides rich insights into epidemic dynamics with unprecedented resolution and speed, revealing how transmission varied by day of the week, gatherings during the 2021 Christmas period, and the UEFA Euro football tournament in July 2021.

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have published a new study of the effectiveness of AI tools like ChatGPT in targeting specific demographics with tailored political messaging. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have raised the prospect of scalable, automated, and fine-grained political microtargeting on a scale previously unseen.

A computer system which harnesses the power of AI to learn the language of cancer is capable of spotting the signs of the disease in biological samples with remarkable accuracy, its developers say. An international team of AI specialists and cancer scientists are behind the breakthrough development, which can also provide reliable predictions of patient outcomes.

Scientists at the University of Warwick are using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse cosmic explosions known as supernovae. Many stars in the Universe will end their lives as white dwarfs - compact stars containing about the mass of the Sun in the size of the Earth. Some of these white dwarfs will eventually explode as supernovae.

A new advance in a developing form of wireless communications could help precisely pinpoint the locations of people and objects indoors, researchers say. Engineers from University of Glasgow and colleagues from the UK and Australia are behind the research breakthrough. Their work could have a wide range of future applications, from helping emergency services quickly find people trapped in smoke-filled buildings to offering device-assisted navigation through public spaces for blind and partially-sighted people.

Apps designed for female health monitoring are exposing users to unnecessary privacy and safety risks through their poor data handling practices, according to new research from UCL and King's College London. The study, presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024 on 14 May, is the most extensive evaluation of the privacy practices of female health apps to date.