{"id":177038,"date":"2026-01-12T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/from-brain-scans-to-alloys-teaching-ai-to-make-sense-of-complex-research-data\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:40:38","slug":"from-brain-scans-to-alloys-teaching-ai-to-make-sense-of-complex-research-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/from-brain-scans-to-alloys-teaching-ai-to-make-sense-of-complex-research-data\/","title":{"rendered":"From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/materials-research-institute\/story\/brain-scans-alloys-teaching-ai-make-sense-complex-research-data\">From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/materials-research-institute\/story\/brain-scans-alloys-teaching-ai-make-sense-complex-research-data\">https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/materials-research-institute\/story\/brain-scans-alloys-teaching-ai-make-sense-complex-research-data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 14:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psu.edu\">www.psu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers at Penn State developed a framework called ZENN, which aims to reveal the underlying physics and mechanisms driving AI predictions rather than just providing answers like many existing AI models.<\/li>\n<li>The ZENN framework was tested in a materials science study focusing on an alloy exhibiting negative thermal expansion, helping to reconstruct the material\u2019s free-energy landscape and thereby uncovering the thermodynamic mechanisms behind its unusual behavior.<\/li>\n<li>The potential applications of ZENN extend beyond materials science to various fields such as biomedical research, cryo-electron microscopy, climate research, and advanced data platforms.<\/li>\n<li>ZENN can help bridge the gap between theoretical computer simulations and real-world experiments in materials science, guiding the development of manufacturable materials and aiding in the design of things like medical implants and advanced data systems.<\/li>\n<li>The framework has applications that could extend to quantum computing, where it could contribute to the management and interpretation of quantum information.<\/li>\n<li>Funding for the research came from various organizations, including the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/materials-research-institute\/story\/brain-scans-alloys-teaching-ai-make-sense-complex-research-data&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/16_9_1000w\/public\/2026\/01\/zenn-4.3-psn_zk-lui.png?h=67eabc4d&itok=OGZ7-JJZ","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177040,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177038\/revisions\/177040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}