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Boosting Physical Activity/Curbing Sitting Time Highly Likely To Lower Breast Cancer Risk

Boosting physical activity levels and curbing sitting time are highly likely to lower breast cancer risk, finds research designed to strengthen proof of causation.

Study Calls For Change In Guidance About Eating Fish During Pregnancy

A woman’s mercury level during pregnancy is unlikely to have an adverse effect on the development of the child provided that the mother eats fish, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.

Japanese researchers conduct largest ever genetic study on heart arrhythmia

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences based in Japan have conducted the largest genetic study ever on heart arrhythmia.

40 401 Beams in a Laser Multi-Beam Nano Structuring Is a New Record

The new record in multibeam laser nanostructuring, with respect to the number of laser beams simultaneously modifying the material surface, was reached due to the active scientific cooperation of HiLASE Centre of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the Israeli company HOLO/OR Ltd.

Robotic Cubes Shapeshift In Outer Space

Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.

Insects Struggle To Adjust To Extreme Temperatures Making Them Vulnerable To Climate Change, Study Finds

Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought.

No Evidence That Dehorning Black Rhinos Negatively Impacts The Species’ Reproduction Or Survival, Study Finds

There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth - breeding, birth, survival, life span and death - between dehorned or horned black rhinos new research, conducted by the University of Bristol Vet School, Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, and Save the Rhino Trust has found.

Armoured Worm Reveals The Ancestry Of Three Major Animal Groups

An international team of scientists, including from the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and the Natural History Museum, have discovered that a well-preserved fossilised worm dating from 518-million-years-ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.

Q&A: Randolph Kirchain On How Cool Pavements Can Mitigate Climate Change

MIT research scientist explores how cool pavements can offer climate change solutions in more than just the summer.

The First Panchromatic Study of a Tidal Disruption in a Star with a Jet

A female scientist from the Astronomical Institute of the CAS was part of the team that for the first time achieved a long-term observation of an extremely rare event: a stellar tidal rip. Astronomer Christina Thönea was involved through her observing programmes on telescopes located at the Calar Alto Observatory and in the Canary Islands. The Nature journal has now published a paper on the research, called “A very luminous jet from disruption of a star by a massive black hole”.

Microbes And Minerals May Have Set Off Earth’s Oxygenation

Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere

Look! Up In The Sky! Is It A Planet? Nope, Just A Star

Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers flag three that are actually stars.

Handheld Surgical Robot Can Help Stem Fatal Blood Loss

The AI-Guided Ultrasound Intervention Device is a lifesaving technology that helps a range of users deliver complex medical interventions at the point of injury.

Making Quantum Circuits More Robust

Researchers have developed a technique for making quantum computing more resilient to noise, which boosts performance.

A Tool For Predicting The Future

Researchers design a user-friendly interface that helps nonexperts make forecasts using data collected over time.

Diem: A Breakthrough Method Will Change Genome Research

Thanks to scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, what used to take days to weeks and computers with huge computing capacity will be faster and more reliable. They developed "diem", a method of genomes polarization, thanks to which experts around the world across disciplines can more easily analyze genomes. It will be appreciated, for example, by archaeologists when searching for Neanderthal genes in the genome of modern humans or biologists who can track advantageous chunks of genomes and further use them as biomarkers.

Engineers Enlist AI To Help Scale Up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing

Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.

Machine Learning, Harnessed To Extreme Computing, Aids Fusion Energy Development

Linking techniques from machine learning with advanced numerical simulations, MIT researchers take an important step in state-of-the-art predictions for fusion plasmas.

What Words Can Convey

Natural language processing models capture rich knowledge of words’ meanings through statistics.

Living Better With Algorithms

Graduate student Sarah Cen explores the interplay between humans and artificial intelligence systems, to help build accountability and trust.