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Will the use of domesticated animals in rewilding projects compromise animal welfare?

Increasingly, domesticated herbivores, typically horses or cattle, are used in European rewilding projects to help restore missing or dysfunctional ecological processes.

Team Creates Map For Production Of Eco-Friendly Metals

New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.

Compete or Cooperate with ‘Dr. Google’? Small Animal Veterinarians’ Attitudes towards Clients’ Use of Internet Resources — A Comparative Study across Austria, Denmark and the UK

Owners of dogs, cats, and other companion animals increasingly make use of the internet to find out how to best care for their animals.

Study Finds Cells Take Out The Trash Before They Divide

Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic byproducts and give their offspring a clean slate.

Ultrathin Fuel Cell Uses The Body’s Own Sugar To Generate Electricity

Engineers have developed a glucose power source that could fuel miniature implants and sensors.

3 Questions: Daniel Anderson On The Progress Of Mrna Vaccines

Following the successful development of vaccines against Covid-19, scientists hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases.

On The Road To Cleaner, Greener, And Faster Driving

Researchers use artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights.

Charting A Safe Course Through A Highly Uncertain Environment

A new technique can safely guide an autonomous robot without knowledge of its environmental conditions or the size, shape, or location of obstacles it might encounter.

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Patients’ Race From Their Medical Images

Study shows AI can identify self-reported race from medical images that contain no indications of race detectable by human experts.

Researchers Unveil A Secret Of Stronger Metals

Study shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties.

Toward Customizable Timber, Grown In A Lab

Researchers show they can control the properties of lab-grown plant material, which could enable the production of wood products with little waste.

MIT Engineers Boost Signals From Fluorescent Sensors

The advance allows the particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis or monitoring.

SMART Researchers Enable Early-Stage Detection Of Microbial Contamination In Cell Therapy

Rapid and accurate analytical test method enhances the production of high-quality cell therapy products.

Molecules Found In Mucus Can Thwart Fungal Infection

Harnessing the strength of these specialized sugar molecules could help researchers develop new antifungal drugs.

Hallucinating To Better Text Translation

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.

Faster Computing Results Without Fear Of Errors

Researchers developed a new system that can make computer programs run faster, while guaranteeing accuracy.

Researchers Discover A New Hardware Vulnerability In The Apple M1 Chip

CSAIL scientists’ novel hardware attack against the Apple M1 chip defeats the last line of security while leaving no trace.

Yale-Led Team Creates Comprehensive Resource for Impact of Genomic Variants

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.

Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change

Solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues. Animals remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Restoring species will help limit global warming, new science reveals.

Engineers Build LEGO-Like Artificial Intelligence Chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.