Newly-discovered viruses live in hydrothermal vents and other extreme environments. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 70,500 viruses previously unknown to science1, many of them weird and nothing like known species. The RNA viruses were identified using metagenomics, in which scientists sample all the genomes present in the environment without having...
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Nano flashlight could allow future cell phones to detect viruses, more
by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Materials Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Schematic of three different nano flashlights for the generation of, left to right, focused, wide-spanning, and collimated beams. Each could have different applications. Credit: Robin Singh In work that could turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built...