Race, ethnicity may play a role in cause of liver cancer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of liver cancer has identified racial and ethnic differences and emerging trends for this highly fatal disease. The study, conducted by researchers with…

Research finds global surge in cancers among the under 50s over past three decades

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There’s been a striking 79% increase in new cases of cancer among the under 50s around the world over the past three decades (1990–2019), finds research…

Melting glaciers reveal archaeological treasures |

Archaeologists from the Secrets Of The Ice project are uncovering archaeological treasures left by melting glaciers in the mountains of Norway. The team have found remnants of reindeer hunts dating…

Memory in Touch: Fingertips Recall Past Forces

Summary: Researchers have explored how a fingertip’s mechanical memory of prior forces influences tactile neuron activity. The study unveils the importance of fingertip viscoelasticity, where deformations last longer than the…

The Realities of Moving to a Passwordless Computing Future

Improved computer security is on the horizon for both businesses and individual users willing to adopt an alternative to passwords. Yet, despite the growing disdain for the cumbersome process of…

Vast bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name

The red region (left) shows the shell enclosed by the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, with individual galaxies depicted as luminous tiny specks. The blue filaments show the greater Cosmic Web, with…

Scientists develop an energy-efficient wireless power and information transfer system

The SWIPT-NOMA-DAS framework is five times more efficient than SWIPT-NOMA without DAS and performs 10% better than SWIPT-OMA-DAS, a significant boost for the IoT communications technology. Credit: Associate Professor Dong-Wook…

Toddlers Use Logic Before Language

Summary: Toddlers as young as 19 months old exhibit natural logical thinking, independent of language knowledge. This ability, manifesting as exclusion by elimination, allows toddlers to make conclusions about unknown…

Active label distribution learning via kernel maximum mean discrepancy

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Label distribution learning (LDL) is a new learning paradigm to deal with label ambiguity. Compared with traditional supervised learning scenarios, annotation with label distribution is more…

It’s going to take more than early dark energy to resolve the Hubble tension

Hubble tension has gotten worse lately. Credit: Perivolaropoulos and Skara Our best understanding of the universe is rooted in a cosmological model known as LCDM. The CDM stands for cold…