Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in the world among women, with more than 2.3 million cases a year, and continues to be one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality. Precisely predicting whether this type of tumour will reappear remains one of the key challenges in oncology. To try and make progress in this field, an international team led by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has developed an artificial intelligence model that brings together medical imaging data and clinical information to calculate the risk of tumour recurrence in a much more accurate and interpretative way.

MIT researchers developed a training method that teaches vision-language generative AI models to localize a specific object, like a person’s pet, in a new scene.

Single-photon sources are key components of quantum communication technologies. However, conventional designs use decoupled single-photon emitters and photon transmission methods, resulting in high transmission loss, limiting practical applicability. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new method, where a single rare-earth ion is used to generate and guide single photons directly within an optical fiber at room temperature. It is low cost and can become a key component of upcoming quantum communication technologies.