Workplace safety is an increasing concern in modern environments. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are driving innovative hardware solutions to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.…
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Richard Dawkins’ reverie on the twists and turns of evolution is a ‘do not miss’ book
What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the whale. [D]id you know … that some cuckoo chicks…
Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models
Simulation of galaxies ionizing hydrogen gas (bright areas) during the epoch of Reionization. Credit: M. Alvarez, R. Kaehler, and T. Abel / European Southern Observatory (ESO). Reionization is a critical…
Public attitudes to mental health decline for the first time in 10 years
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and commissioned by Mind warns that public attitudes to mental health…
AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time
As a user scans their phone camera around a room, WorldScribe will create brief audio descriptions of the objects recorded by the camera. Credit: Shen-Yun Lai, used with permission A…
Amazonian tree species differently invest in stem and twig wood depending on their environment – Functional Ecologists
In this new post Gisele Biem, postdoc researcher at National Institute for Amazon Research and State University of Mato Grosso, presets her work ‘Ecosystem type affects how Amazonian tree species…
UN approves carbon market safeguards to protect environment and human rights
Developers of carbon credit projects will have to carry out a risk assessment and minimise any social or environmental impacts The UN’s new carbon market will have a compulsory mechanism…
sales pitches are often from biased sources, the choices can be overwhelming and impartial help is not equally available to all
The 67 million Americans eligible for Medicare make an important decision every October: Should they make changes in their Medicare health insurance plans for the next calendar year? The decision…
Legal system fails to protect people from malicious copyright cases at the cost of sexual privacy, study warns
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Changes need to be made to the UK legal system to protect people from exploitative litigation designed to prey on vulnerabilities, a new study warns. Reforms…
