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Tech Xplore / AI helps turn citizen photos into water-level data

For the past 15 years, Christopher Lowry, Ph.D., has led CrowdHydrology, a University at Buffalo citizen-science project that relies on thousands of volunteers to collect water-level observations from streams and other waterways ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / First public firearm industry archive reveals ignored warning over suspicious gun sales

UC San Francisco's Industry Documents Library, in partnership with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, has made public nearly 700 internal documents from a Midwest retailer as part of the state's lawsuit alleging the ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Community-led virtual care shows promise for Indigenous chronic disease management

Anyone who works in health care in rural or remote Australia knows what the challenges look like. Behind every statistic is a person forced to travel hundreds of kilometers for care, a clinician stretched beyond capacity ...

15 hours ago
Phys.org / Communication style outweighs resume content in workplace first impressions, analysis finds

To make a good impression at work, it might be better to spend less time polishing your resume and more time honing your communication skills. That's according to a large analysis of more than 200 studies showing that the ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Children who lose a parent twice as likely to develop mental health disorders

A new, large-scale Curtin University study has found children who experience parental loss are twice as likely to develop a mental health disorder as those living with both parents.

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Endometriosis diagnosis linked to long-lasting mental health burden

Women who are later diagnosed with endometriosis have a markedly higher use of antidepressant and anxiety medication and are far more often in contact with psychiatric hospital departments than other women. This is not only ...

19 hours ago
Tech Xplore / AI bias isn't just an error in the algorithm, it's a chain of human decisions

In the United States, leading human resources software company Workday is facing a lawsuit over its use of AI-powered job screening tools that allegedly discriminated against applicants based on factors such as age, disability ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI tool could help heart attack survivors receive tailored care, say experts

The health of heart attack survivors follows three distinct paths in the five years after their heart attack, say researchers from the University of Surrey. The research used an AI tool to find patterns that could not only ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI model helps clinicians detect heart obstruction using routine ultrasound images

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed and externally validated an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can identify a potentially significant heart obstruction from routine ultrasound videos without relying on specialized ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu

Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Some of Meta's safety tools were 'designed to fail': Witness

A former employee testified Wednesday that some of Meta's safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were "designed to fail," contradicting the company's defense strategy in a landmark trial in California.

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Insurance barriers may limit access to virtual pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD

Insurance coverage is a significant barrier to accessing virtual pulmonary rehabilitation programs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: ...

16 hours ago