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LA4VLA: Learning to Act without Seeing via Language-Action Pretraining

- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are commonly pretrained on robot demonstrations by jointly mapping visual observations and language instructions to actions. However, dense visual-action...

Kalman Prototypical Networks for Few-shot Fault Detection in Combined Cycle Gas Turbines

- Combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) play a key role in modern power generation, offering both high efficiency and reduced environmental impact. However, their complex thermo-fluid and mechanical...

We’ve uncovered a master gene that switches on human development

25/06/2026 - We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human body

Phages could enable us to hijack vaccine immunity to kill cancer cells

25/06/2026 - Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have acquired from vaccines

Taxonomy-aware deep learning for hierarchical marine species classification in underwater imagery

- Automated classification of marine species from underwater imagery is essential for scalable ocean biodiversity monitoring and conservation policy. Existing approaches struggle with severe domain...

Low-rank Updates in Slowly Time-varying Graphs for Spatial-Temporal Signal Interpolation

- A crucial assumption in graph signal processing (GSP) is the existence of an underlying graph that captures the pairwise similarities between nodes, allowing filters to be designed based on this...

GRACE: Gated Refinement for Accurate Causal Edge Discovery in High-Dimensional Time Series

- From climate teleconnections to gene regulation, modern time-series datasets encompass tens or hundreds of interacting variables, making causal discovery increasingly challenging. Constraint-based...

Unapproved gene therapy for boosting longevity is set to go on sale

23/06/2026 - A gene therapy that instructs cells to produce more of an anti-ageing protein called klotho is about to be offered by a US company at overseas clinics to bypass FDA rules

AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery

- Forest imagery analysis often involves multiple tightly coupled vision tasks, which must be performed under substantial variation in geographic regions, sensors, and acquisition conditions. However,...

Tackling "AI against sustainability"

- Current debates on AI and sustainability are dichotomised, tending to focus on either the environmental impact of AI systems themselves ("sustainability of AI") or AI's potential for...

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...

AI-Assisted Help-Seeking Trajectories in Programming Education from an SRL-Informed Perspective

- Generative AI tools provide novice programmers with instant, personalized support, but also raise concerns about whether AI use supports or bypasses students' regulation of problem-solving....

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...

Contrastive and Adaptive Multi-modal Masked Autoencoder for Spatial Transcriptomics

- The high cost of spatial transcriptomics (ST) has driven extensive studies into predicting gene expression directly from H&E histology images. However, this prediction task faces an inherent...

Diffusion Models Adapt to Low-Dimensional Structure Under Flexible Coefficient Choices

- Diffusion models are known to exploit unknown low-dimensional structure to accelerate sampling. However, existing convergence theory under low-dimensional data structure has largely focused on update...

A PML1-CCL5-PI3K/MAPK feedback loop governs survival of endocrine-resistant breast cancer cells

- The mechanisms that mediate endocrine therapy resistance remain incompletely understood. We identified promyelocytic leukemia protein isoform 1 (PML1) as a central node of this resistance. We...

This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

20/06/2026 - Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that...

Integrating national forest inventory, airborne lidar, and satellite imagery for wall-to-wall mapping of forest structure with computer vision

- Remote sensing is increasingly relied upon to deliver actionable science for forest and wildfire risk management across large landscapes. Wall-to-wall, annually updated maps are a persistent need for...

Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of image-generating machine learning

- Machine learning is often touted to improve the efficiency of ICT, but that small gain is overwhelmed by the enormous carbon, water, and land footprints of data centers and ML-ready devices. We...

The Hidden Environmental Cost of Poor Coding Practices in TensorFlow and Keras Applications: A Study on Resource Leaks and Carbon Emissions

- Efficiency and sustainability are critical considerations in the development and deployment of machine learning (ML) applications. Among the factors influencing sustainability, resource leaks in ML...

Fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibition for succinate dehydrogenase-deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a phase 2 trial

- While most gastrointestinal stromal tumors are driven by oncogenic mutations in KIT or PDGFRA, 10–15% exhibit functional loss of the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) complex and genome-wide DNA...