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Phys.org / The sea beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice holds many secrets. These scientists dive deep to find out
As bubbles rippled across the frigid Finnish lake, diver Daan Jacobs emerged from a hole carved out of the thick, crackling ice.
Medical Xpress / New tool rates diet misinformation by potential for harm, not just true or false
A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for potential harm has been developed by a team of UCL researchers. The work has been published in Scientific ...
Medical Xpress / Treating disease at birth: How a brief spike in testosterone sets the trajectory for disease that appears decades later
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare inherited disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting in men. Patients typically develop early symptoms such as hand tremors in their 30s, but diagnosis ...
Medical Xpress / Guidance for safer AI-enabled medical devices: Researchers highlight the importance of human factors
AI-enabled medical devices promise improved medical care and support for health care professionals. However, the safety and performance of such systems not only depends on algorithms or technical specifications. It is equally ...
Medical Xpress / Individuals with worse cardiac structure at higher risk of developing adverse health outcomes and mortality long-term
Higher left atrial end-systolic dimension (LASD), an increased measurement of the left upper chamber of the heart, and left ventricular mass (LVM), a clinical measurement of the weight of the heart's left ventricular myocardium, ...
Tech Xplore / Molecular interface tuning lifts tandem solar cell efficiency to 25.1%
Researchers at UNIST have unveiled a novel interface engineering technique that significantly improves both the performance and durability of perovskite/organic tandem solar cells (POTSCs). Published in Energy & Environmental ...
Phys.org / Barcelona Metropolitan Area has lost more than 70% of agricultural land in recent decades, finds study
Peri-urban agriculture in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is in a critical situation after decades of decline. A new study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma ...
Phys.org / Foreign direct investment is no silver bullet for growth, research shows
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has long been seen as a reliable engine of economic growth, bringing jobs, productivity gains and new technologies into host economies. But new research suggests the reality is far more complex, ...
Medical Xpress / Can marijuana cause lung cancer?
As more states legalize marijuana, many people might be wondering if that means it is safe to use. While smoking tobacco is a known and well-studied cause of lung cancer, linking marijuana to cancer is more complicated, says ...
Phys.org / Hubble image: IC 486—where spiral arms and star formation meet
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Month image. IC 486 lies right on the edge ...
Tech Xplore / Nvidia's new AI tool is giving female game characters a makeover—and gamers are pushing back
Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a "breakthrough in visual fidelity for games." The software takes low-resolution ...
Medical Xpress / UK parents told to limit under-5s screen time
The UK government on Friday published its first national guidance on screen time for children, advising parents to allow no more than an hour a day for under-fives.
