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…
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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…
More than a third of women don’t know they are pregnant by six weeks
More than a third of women don’t know they are pregnant in time to meet the six-week abortion ban active in four U.S. states, a new study finds. About 37%…
We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?
Space programs are often concerned with what’s happening “out there” in the universe, a large portion of what space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) do is…
How the world can set itself up for success at COP29
Comment: A new climate finance goal is the top priority for the Baku summit – and there are signs of convergence on critical issues Mukhtar Babayev is the COP29 President-Designate…
