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The 45 planets most likely to host alien life, according to astronomers
'Project Hail Mary' may be fiction, but this list could still come in handy. An artist's impression of a theoretical planet orbiting a redder star, which could cause microbes and plants on the planet's surface to reflect very different colors from Earth's green forests. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a handful of them be suitable for human visitors.
100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life
Over 11 years, citizen scientists collected billions of data signals for the SETI@home project. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, deep-space radio blips they want to review for signs of extraterrestrial life . And they couldn't have done it without 11 years of volunteer work from millions of PC owners around the world. Even with today's advanced computers, the world's most complex data problems can't be solved by a single machine.
Bridging the Clinical Expertise Gap: Development of a Web-Based Platform for Accessible Time Series Forecasting and Analysis
Mullen, Aaron D., Harris, Daniel R., Slavova, Svetla, Bumgardner, V. K. Cody
Time series forecasting has applications across domains and industries, especially in healthcare, but the technical expertise required to analyze data, build models, and interpret results can be a barrier to using these techniques. This article presents a web platform that makes the process of analyzing and plotting data, training forecasting models, and interpreting and viewing results accessible to researchers and clinicians. Users can upload data and generate plots to showcase their variables and the relationships between them. The platform supports multiple forecasting models and training techniques which are highly customizable according to the user's needs. Additionally, recommendations and explanations can be generated from a large language model that can help the user choose appropriate parameters for their data and understand the results for each model. The goal is to integrate this platform into learning health systems for continuous data collection and inference from clinical pipelines.
When the wheels come off: Lessons from Sonoma on racing, resilience, and engine oil
I went to Sonoma for a NASCAR race and found out heat is the bad guy, fluids are the secret weapon, and Valvoline's engineers are basically mad scientists with pit passes. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A tire is making decent progress coming out of a turn at Sonoma Raceway --except for the fact it's no longer attached to Cody Ware's No. 51 Ford Mustang. Crowds gasp, cars swerve, and the wheel menacingly rolls off, then on, and then off the track again before it finally collapses. I've never related to a tire more.
Supplementary Material of " Algorithmic Stability and Generalization of an Unsupervised Feature Selection Algorithm "
Correspondence should be addressed to: qiang.cheng@uky.edu. The architecture of our algorithm is shown in Figure 1. For the training based on Eq. (2) of the main text, in each iteration of backpropagation, After training, only the trained selector is used to select features and do reconstruction during testing time. In Eq. (2) of the main text, the second term helps obtain During testing time, only the trained sub-NN is used to select features and do reconstruction. It has 5, 744 samples and 561 features.
Interpretable AI for Time-Series: Multi-Model Heatmap Fusion with Global Attention and NLP-Generated Explanations
Francis, Jiztom Kavalakkatt, Darr, Matthew J
In this paper, we present a novel framework for enhancing model interpretability by integrating heatmaps produced separately by ResNet and a restructured 2D Transformer with globally weighted input saliency. We address the critical problem of spatial-temporal misalignment in existing interpretability methods, where convolutional networks fail to capture global context and Transformers lack localized precision - a limitation that impedes actionable insights in safety-critical domains like healthcare and industrial monitoring. Our method merges gradient-weighted activation maps (ResNet) and Transformer attention rollout into a unified visualization, achieving full spatial-temporal alignment while preserving real-time performance. Empirical evaluations on clinical (ECG arrhythmia detection) and industrial (energy consumption prediction) datasets demonstrate significant improvements: the hybrid framework achieves 94.1% accuracy (F1 0.93) on the PhysioNet dataset and reduces regression error to RMSE = 0.28 kWh (R2 = 0.95) on the UCI Energy Appliance dataset-outperforming standalone ResNet, Transformer, and InceptionTime baselines by 3.8-12.4%. An NLP module translates fused heatmaps into domain-specific narratives (e.g., "Elevated ST-segment between 2-4 seconds suggests myocardial ischemia"), validated via BLEU-4 (0.586) and ROUGE-L (0.650) scores. By formalizing interpretability as causal fidelity and spatial-temporal alignment, our approach bridges the gap between technical outputs and stakeholder understanding, offering a scalable solution for transparent, time-aware decision-making.
Scalable Hypergraph Structure Learning with Diverse Smoothness Priors
Brown, Benjamin T., Zhang, Haoxiang, Lau, Daniel L., Arce, Gonzalo R.
-- In graph signal processing, learning the weighted connections between nodes from a set of sample signals is a fundamental task when the underlying relationships are not known a priori. This task is typically addressed by finding a graph Laplacian on which the observed signals are smooth. With the extension of graphs to hypergraphs - where edges can connect more than two nodes - graph learning methods have similarly been generalized to hypergraphs. However, the absence of a unified framework for calculating total variation has led to divergent definitions of smoothness and, consequently, differing approaches to hyperedge recovery. We confront this challenge through generalization of several previously proposed hypergraph total variations, subsequently allowing ease of substitution into a vector based optimization. T o this end, we propose a novel hypergraph learning method that recovers a hypergraph topology from time-series signals based on a smoothness prior . Our approach, designated as Hypergraph Structure Learning with Smoothness (HSLS), addresses key limitations in prior works, such as hyperedge selection and convergence issues, by formulating the problem as a convex optimization solved via a forward-backward-forward algorithm, ensuring guaranteed convergence. Additionally, we introduce a process that simultaneously limits the span of the hyperedge search and maintains a valid hyperedge selection set. In doing so, our method becomes scalable in increasingly complex network structures. The experimental results demonstrate improved performance, in terms of accuracy, over other state-of-the-art hypergraph inference methods; furthermore, we empirically show our method to be robust to total variation terms, biased towards global smoothness, and scalable to larger hypergraphs. YPERGRAPHS are considered as generalized graphs that capture higher order relationships [1]. While graphs encode pairwise relationships between nodes through edges, the higher order nature of hypergraphs extends node relations to allow an arbitrary number of nodes to be connected by a hyperedge. Figure 1 contains a sample hypergraph displaying these higher order connections where nodes are considered workers and hyperedges connect workers who are collaborating on a project. B. T. Brown, H. Zhang, and D. L. Lau are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA. G. R. Arce is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grants 1815992 and 1816003 and the AFOSR award FA9550-22-1-0362.