Transforming online court hearings with avatars

In the future, virtual avatars will represent participants in the online courtroom. Credit: © Fraunhofer Austria Since the coronavirus pandemic, video conferences have become an everyday occurrence across a variety…

Archaeologists search for the legendary Kingswood elephant from the Bostock and Wombwell’s menagerie |

Archaeologists are conducting a search for the legendary elephant beast from the Bostock and Wombwell’s menagerie travelling ‘beast show’. Menageries featuring wild and exotic animals were a fashionable form of…

Learning Capabilities Persist in Dementia Patients

Summary: Dementia patients can still learn new skills, challenging common misconceptions about the disease. The researcher exposed dementia sufferers to tablet computers for the first time and, despite memory decline,…

Rapid weight loss may improve advanced fatty liver disease, says new research

Participants followed the “soups and shakes” diet to help them lose weight. Credit: New Africa/ Shutterstock About 2% of adults worldwide suffer from a condition called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Nash), an…

Trusting Others Over Self: Infants’ Unusual Bias Towards Outside Observations

Summary: Infants tend to trust others’ observations more than their own. Studying 8- and 12-month-old infants, the researchers found that younger infants prioritized an animated character’s attention over their own…

EU carbon tax sparks greenwashing in Mozambique

Mozambique’s biggest industry claims its aluminium is green, which would help it avoid European taxes – but those claims have been questioned In the face of new carbon taxes on…

Fiber is your body’s natural guide to weight management – rather than cutting carbs out of your diet, eat them in their original fiber packaging instead

Fiber might just be the key to healthy weight management – and nature packages it in perfectly balanced ratios with carbs when you eat them as whole foods. Think unprocessed…

Collaborative research detects nanojets with machine learning algorithms

Northumbria PhD student Ramada Sukarmadji. Credit: Simon Veit-Wilson/Northumbria University A mystery that has baffled astronomers and physicists for decades is a step closer to being solved thanks to a collaboration…

After 15 Years, Evidence of Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background

The universe is humming with gravitational radiation — a very low-frequency rumble that rhythmically stretches and compresses spacetime and the matter embedded in it. Artist’s interpretation of an array of…

Fewer teens now perceive themselves as overweight, finds international study of more than 745,000 adolescents

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study involving more than 745,000 adolescents from 41 countries across Europe and North America identified an increase in the amount of teenagers who underestimate their…