Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jun 6, 2025
The number of acutely food insecure people worldwide has doubled since 2017, increasing demand for early warning systems (EWS) that can predict food emergencies. Advances in computational methods, and the growing availability of near-real time remote...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 19, 2025
Mistaken eyewitness identification is one of the leading causes of false convictions. Improving law enforcement's ability to identify correct identifications could have profound implications for criminal justice. Across two experiments, we show that ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 19, 2025
Enhancing the reliability and reproducibility of optical microscopy by reducing specimen irradiance continues to be an important biotechnology target. As irradiance levels are reduced, however, the particle nature of light is heightened, giving rise ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 16, 2025
A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model (LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing persuasively and empathetically, at inferring user traits from text, and at mimicking human-like convers...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 12, 2025
Solar-driven atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) presents a sustainable approach for freshwater production with sunlight as the sole energy input. To address challenges posed by diurnal moisture variations and diffusive sunlight, we present a system-w...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 12, 2025
Breast milk is crucial for infant health, offering essential nutrients and immune protection. However, despite increasing exposure risks from nanoparticles (NPs), their potential infiltration into human breast milk remains poorly understood. This stu...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 9, 2025
What mechanisms underlie linguistic generalization in large language models (LLMs)? This question has attracted considerable attention, with most studies analyzing the extent to which the language skills of LLMs resemble rules. As of yet, it is not k...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 8, 2025
Despite the rapid proliferation of AI tools, we know little about how people who use them are perceived by others. Drawing on theories of attribution and impression management, we propose that people believe they will be evaluated negatively by other...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 2, 2025
Understanding the effects of missense mutations or single amino acid variants (SAVs) on protein function is crucial for elucidating the molecular basis of diseases/disorders and designing rational therapies. We introduce here , a machine learning too...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 2, 2025
Despite its importance to society and many decades of research, key questions about the social and psychological processes of political persuasion remain unanswered, often due to data limitations. We propose that AI tools, specifically generative lar...