AI Matches Humans in Vocal Emotion Detection

Summary: Machine learning (ML) models can accurately identify emotions from brief audio clips, achieving a level of accuracy comparable to humans. By analyzing nonsensical sentences to remove the influence of…

Are you one of the millions about to have cataract surgery? Here’s what ophthalmologists say you need to know

Cataract surgery is one of the most popular and commonly performed procedures in the world. The vast majority of patients have excellent outcomes with few complications. Here are the numbers:…

Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The public is being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily…

Swallowable sensors could pinpoint gut movement problems for patients

A close-up picture of the capsule. Credit: Gerard Cummins, University of Birmingham. Scientists have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with sensors that can detect pressure in a patient’s guts and…

2,000-year old bronze wares found in Shanxi Province

Archaeologists have uncovered 2,000-year old bronze wares during excavations of the Taosi North Cemetery in Shanxi Province. In a press statement by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, the cemetery…

Unlocking Potential: A Short Course Boosts Grit and Self-Belief

Summary: A novel method offers a promising approach to enhancing grit and self-belief. Through a pilot study involving 38 Norwegian students, this method, encapsulated in a 35-40 minute online course…

Associations of remnant cholesterol with cardiovascular and cancer mortality in the ChinaHEART cohort

Researchers used restricted cubic splines with three predefined knots in competing risk analysis models to evaluate the non-linearity association of remnant cholesterol on a continuous scale and the risk of…

How much stress is too much? A psychiatrist explains the links between toxic stress and poor health − and how to get help

COVID-19 taught most people that the line between tolerable and toxic stress – defined as persistent demands that lead to disease – varies widely. But some people will age faster…

Scientists identify Achilles heel of lung cancer protein

Rendering of interface in the mutant EGFR studied that was shown to be critical for EGFR-driven tumor growth. The K946E mutation shown in red was used by the team to…

Active social lives can help dementia patients, caregivers thrive

Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with dementia and those who care for them should be screened for loneliness, so providers can find ways to keep them socially connected, according to…