As bird flu evolves, keeping it out of farm flocks is getting harder

H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors, posing a challenge for keeping it from jumping into people,…

Women more susceptible to certain subjective effects of alcohol during binge drinking episodes

Credit: Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute A clinical trial led by the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute has found that women experience some of the…

Holistic panoramic 3D scene understanding using spherical harmonics

Credit: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology An advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed that can extract three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure and object information within indoor environments…

‘Standard Candle’ Particle Measurement Enables Hunt for Hybrid Mesons

BYLINE: Matt Cahill Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons…

The Sony A1 has almost $1500 off for Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day is full of claims of the biggest discounts and the best deals, but I think this deal on the Sony A1 might just be the winner so…

State-dependent values emerge from Dirac equation

Credit: California Institute of Technology Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether in a physics class, in the…

Multi-wavelength observations investigate behavior of blazar S5 0716+714

Investments rise in data, AI, outpacing physical assets: UN

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The purchase of physical assets was eclipsed last year by a surge in investment in intangible items like software, data and AI, the UN said Wednesday,…

Which factors affect the success of popular prescription weight loss drugs in individuals?

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism has identified certain characteristics that might influence people’s weight loss after taking prescription drugs called glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists…

UN Human Rights Council omits fossil fuels after mention is removed

A proposal by the Marshall Islands and Colombia calling for a transition away from fossil fuels at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) failed to make it into the council’s…