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Phys.org / Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society
A new study from the HistoGenes project, of which Patrick Geary, professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is co-PI, is helping scholars frame a better picture of the early medieval people who inhabited Western ...
Medical Xpress / Repurposed drugs move through late-stage trials at up to 90% lower cost
Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those in the pharmaceutical industry. This "hidden" research system, which operates outside the patent ...
Phys.org / Interpretable AI in materials discovery: Uncovering how models make predictions
A method to interpret artificial intelligence (AI) models used in materials discovery by analyzing their learned features has been developed by researchers from Japan. The method extracts key features from an AI model trained ...
Phys.org / How directing water flows in the landscape could support groundwater and surface water streams
Researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research have investigated how water from streams can be stored in the aquifer during wet periods. Using an area in the lower Spree catchment in Brandenburg as ...
Phys.org / Dominance-oriented views of masculinity widespread among young men, finds study
Half of young men in Switzerland are concerned that "real men" are increasingly being marginalized in society. A large-scale study by the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich (UZH), in ...
Medical Xpress / AI-assisted, real-time deep-brain stimulation therapy for walking impairments in Parkinson's disease
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used for more than three decades to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Today, more than 200,000 patients worldwide have been implanted with these systems, which continuously ...
Phys.org / Subscription required? Newspaper paywalls scatter most readers but provide surprising value
Paywalls are essential to the financial sustainability of news organizations, yet little is known about how readers respond when they encounter one. Do they subscribe, continue reading free content, look for ways around the ...
Phys.org / Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapshot 3D image projection system that integrates a digital encoder with a ...
Phys.org / Four ways kindergarten lays the foundation for lifelong learning
It's the time of year when parents are thinking of registering their children for kindergarten in September—a much-anticipated moment in the lives of many parents and their young ones.
Phys.org / The Handala hacker group uses cyberterrorism as psychological warfare, study finds
A new study by Prof. Gabriel Weimann, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University and professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, ...
Phys.org / AI-based system developed to better detect toxic online content
A Concordia-led team of researchers has developed a new artificial intelligence-based method of detecting toxic online content that is faster and more accurate than existing tools. The system is designed to ensure social ...
Medical Xpress / How the rise of weight-loss drugs could reshape food markets in the Global South
A new article published in Globalization and Health warns that the rapid rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs in high-income countries could have unintended consequences for food environments in low- and middle-income countries.
