INEQUALITY Marginalised children and youths are admitted to hospital far more often than other children and youths are, new research from the University of Copenhagen reveals. The new study is the first ever to determine the size of this huge disease burden, and the researchers behind the study conclude that more preventive measures should be targeted at this group.
Women researchers received substantially less funding in grant awards than men — an average of about $342,000 compared to men’s $659,000, according to a large meta-analysis of studies on the topic.
DNA Using a new, advanced DNA-based method, a research team from the University of Copenhagen has mapped the genetic material of the fabled Native American chief, Sitting Bull. The results reveal that he is in fact the great-grandfather of the well-known Lakota member Ernie LaPointe.
DISEASES For the next four years, the research project PREPARE4VBD will develop new knowledge, detection tools and surveillance systems to improve preparedness in Africa and Europe for vector-borne diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and freshwater snails to livestock and humans. The project, which is a collaboration between university and ministerial partners in Africa and Europe, has received 6 million euro in funding from EU Horizon 2020.
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK Muscle cells in patients with type 2 diabetes have a disrupted biological clock discover scientists in Copenhagen and Stockholm. The findings suggest that treatments for type 2 diabetes may be more or less effective depending on the time of day they are given.
MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks.
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods.
Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles – incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage – that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same machines used to make the clothing we wear every day.
On March 10 the FDA approved Trofinetide, a drug based on the protein IGF-1. The MIT professor's original research showing that IGF-1 could treat Rett was published in 2009.
Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’.
Researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms or legs.
Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks like.
Researchers have used isotopes of carbon to trace how carbon dioxide emissions could be converted into low-carbon fuels and chemicals. The result could help the chemical industry, which is the third largest subsector in terms of direct CO2 emissions, recycle its own waste using current manufacturing processes.
Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer smartwatches and fitness monitors – without the wearer needing to exercise.
Work with skyrmions could have applications in future computers and more.
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace optical and mechanical components, researchers have designed a tiny spectrometer that breaks all current resolution records.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analysed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering – the idea that the climate can be altered using technology – can easily fall into conspiracy
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.