Ciencias de la vida

PHOEBI: An Open-World Benchmark for Bacterial Identification in Phase-Contrast Microscopy

- Optical microscopy enables rapid, label-free imaging of live bacteria and is the standard instrument for species identification across clinical, environmental, and industrial microbiology. Yet field...

A phase-field model for microbiologically influenced corrosion

- A phase-field-based reaction-diffusion corrosion model is developed to predict microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) in metal alloys, with a focus on anaerobic conditions and sulfate-reducing...

Beyond Damage Assessment: Recyclable Material Detection in Aerial Disaster Imagery Using a Lightweight Patch-Based Framework

- Nowadays, more and more disasters of different natures are appearing. Several disaster assessment approaches have been developed in order to identify damaged areas from aerial images. These damaged...

CDER-SME: A Cross-Device Event-RGB Micro-Expression Dataset under Multi-Level Stress Induction

- Micro-expression recognition (MER) in realistic scenarios demands high temporal sensitivity and ecological validity, yet existing benchmarks are largely constrained to laboratory-controlled settings...

Constrained hybrid modelling to predict microbial dynamics and organic matter turnover in soil systems

- Soil microorganisms control organic matter cycling and largely determine how soil systems can cope with and mitigate climate change and environmental threats. Representing microbial dynamics in...

ForEnt: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Characterizing Quadruped Robot Entrapments in Forest Environments

- Legged robots are increasingly deployed in forests for ecological surveying and monitoring, yet their autonomy is often interrupted consequent to the challenges posed in traversing forest...

West Nile virus outbreak in Italy modelled with the quantum Game of Life

- In the last years, an anomalously high spreading of West Nile virus (WNV) has been observed in Italy, with particularly high peaks of infections in southern Lazio, Campania and Veneto regions. The...

Decoupling of global metabolic flux and proteome partitioning in bacteria

18/06/2026

ROSA-TFormer: A Radar-Optical Sensor-Aware Temporal Transformer for Pinus sylvestris Plantation Classification in Northern Shaanxi Using GEE-Derived Sentinel-1/2 Time Series

- Accurate identification of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantations is important for monitoring afforestation quality and ecological restoration in northern Shaanxi. This paper proposes...

Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer children

17/06/2026 - DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbreaks before the advent of farming and...

Million-scale multimodal pollen microscopy with expert-guided foundation models

- Automated pollen identification from microscopy remains a bottleneck in aerobiology, palaeoecology and biodiversity monitoring, because scalable systems must generalise across specimen preparation,...

Federated Fair Trade Energy: Speculative Fabulation for a Planet with Limits

- What happens to permacomputing when electricity grids shift to decentralised green energy, and local communities and municipalities have increased governance over this vital public service?...

Security and Human-Centered Assessment of BACnet-Controlled DALI Infrastructure in an Educational Building Automation Testbed

- Building automation and control systems integrate heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, sensing, and management functions through specialized communication protocols. While this...

Spatial mixed models for assessing environmental exposure effects on the microbiome

- The influence of environmental exposures, such as air pollution, on human health has become increasingly recognized. A growing body of evidence suggests that the microbiome may mediate these effects,...

A lipidomics roadmap: from basic research to societal challenges

- Lipidomics, a rapidly evolving discipline at the interface of biology and analytical chemistry, seeks to comprehensively characterize the lipid composition of biological systems. Driven by advances...

Gaps and drivers of global marine animal biodiversity from the surface to abyss

From Affect Prediction to Affect Forecasting: Evidence for Distinct Information Sources in Longitudinal Text

- Modeling dimensional affect in longitudinal text requires distinguishing current affect estimation from future affective change forecasting. Existing approaches often treat each text as an...

Beyond Usability: A UX Case Study on Using "Withdrawal Design" to Challenge Engagement Metrics in Social Robotics

- Social robots for children with autism are often evaluated through engagement and interaction quality, assuming the robot acts as a social scaffold. We report a mixed-methods "withdrawal"...

Automated Gaze-based Behavioral Segmentation and Temporal Representation for Bridge Inspection in Unconstrained 3D Environments

- Visual bridge inspection is a knowledge-intensive task in which inspectors coordinate visual search, spatial navigation, structural reasoning, and defect identification and documentation. It is a...

NEST3D: A High-Resolution Multimodal Dataset of Sociable Weaver Tree Nests

- Sociable weaver nests function as complex ecological structures offering thermoregulatory microhabitats and sustaining diverse species; however, datasets used in prior studies lack fine-grained 3D...

Scientists found a surprising problem with sugar-free diets

14/06/2026 - A surprising new study suggests that completely eliminating sugar may backfire. Mice on a sucrose-free low-fat diet showed worse blood sugar control, increased inflammation, disrupted gut bacteria,...