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New BMI uses AI to reveal hidden metabolic disorders

New BMI reveals hidden metabolic disorders

Researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel approach to assessing an individual’s risk of metabolic diseases such as diabetes or fatty liver disease more precisely. Instead of relying solely on the widely used body mass index (BMI), the team developed an AI-based computational model using metabolic measurements. This so-called metabolic BMI shows that people of normal weight with a high metabolic BMI have up to a fivefold higher risk of metabolic disease. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Medicine.

The conventional body mass index, calculated using height and weight, may indicate overweight but does not reflect how healthy or unhealthy body fat actually is...

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With some help from AI, your next move can be predicted

metro commute
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AI might know where you’re going before you do. Researchers at Northeastern University used large language models, the kind of advanced artificial intelligence normally designed to process and generate language, to predict human movement.

How RHYTHM predicts human movement
RHYTHM, their innovative tool, “can revolutionize the forecasting of human movements,” forecasting “where you’re going to be in the next 30 minutes or the next 25 hours,” said Ryan Wang, an associate professor and vice chair of research in civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern.

The hope is that RHYTHM will improve domains like transportation and traffic planning to make our lives easier, but in extreme cases, RHYTHM could even be deployed to respond to natural dis...

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AI-powered intelligent 6G radio access technology significantly enhances wireless communication performance

ETRI develops AI-powered intelligent 6G radio access technology that significantly enhances wireless communication performance

Korea’s research community has reached an important milestone on the path toward next-generation mobile communications with the development of a technology platform that brings the 6G era closer. Researchers expect that AI-Native mobile networks, in which artificial intelligence autonomously controls and optimizes the communication system, could achieve transmission efficiencies up to 10 times higher than those of 5G.

Breakthroughs in AI-based wireless access
ETRI has completed the development of AI-based wireless access technology (AI-RAN), a core foundational technology for the 6G era, and has achieved significant results in paving the way for the AI-based next-generation mobile communication era.

The biggest feature of this technology is that it has applied AI to wireless tran...

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On-demand hydrogen fuel production goes dark-mode

On-demand hydrogen fuel production goes dark-mode
Surface morphologies (a1,b1), representing surface potential images in the absence (a2,b2) and presence (a3,b3) of light; ∆CPD profiles before and after irradiation (a4,b4) for g-C3N4, and the mixture of g-C3N4/W12, respectively. c) EPR spectra of g-C3N4 in a mixed solution of water and methanol. d) EPR spectra of g-C3N4/W12 in a mixed solution of water and methanol. e) Mechanism of dark photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over g-C3N4/W12. Credit: Advanced Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202519875

Hydrogen, the lightest element on the periodic table, is a master of escaping almost any container it’s stored in...

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