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Information Technology

It’s like software understands, um, language

Automated speech recognition has revolutionised customer relations for banks, allowing them to respond quickly and with less staff to more low-level queries….

Environmental Conservation

TXOTX Project: Advancing Sustainable Marine Resource Research

The fundamental aim of this project is to collate the greatest information possible on scientific fishery research programs from the different regions in the…

Life & Chemistry

CeMM Unveils Antiviral Protein Breakthrough in Nature Immunology

The study, directed by the center’s director Giulio Superti-Furga, appears today in the online advanced publication route of the journal Nature Immunology. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Hebrew University Astrophysicists Unlock Galaxy Origins Insights

The new theory, motivated by advanced astronomical observations and based on state-of-the-art computer simulations, maintains that the galaxies primarily…

Health & Medicine

Gender Factors in Heart Failure Drug Treatment: Key Insights

In particular, the study found * that female patients were less frequently treated with guideline-recommended medications (such as angiotensin-converting…

Health & Medicine

Post-Surgery Prostate Treatments: Tackling Biochemical Recurrence

This so-called biochemical recurrence affects 30% to 40% of patients after surgery. One risk factor for recurrence, the presence of cancer potentially outside…

Health & Medicine

New Tools Enhance Prediction of Kidney Transplant Success

Kidney transplants are the best available therapy for end stage renal disease. Because of the shortage of deceased organ donors, living donor transplantation…

Power and Electrical Engineering

‘Smart’ fridges stay cool by talking to each other

CSIRO Engineer, Sam West, says the smart fridges work as a network of distributed fridges, each fitted with control technology that allows them to communicate…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Discoveries: US-Australia Team’s Scientific Submarine Voyage

The collaborative voyage of US and Australian researchers was led by chief scientists Dr Jess Adkins from the California Institute of Technology and Dr Ron…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Severe Obesity Risk in Kids and Adults

European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset…

Studies and Analyses

Discover How Gut Microbes Shape Our Health and Lives

In terms of diversity and sheer numbers, the microbes occupying the human gut easily dwarf the billions of people inhabiting the Earth. Numbering in the tens…

Environmental Conservation

Nile Delta Fishery Thrives from Sewage and Fertilizer Run-off

While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s. The…

Earth Sciences

How Earthquakes and El Niño Ended Peru’s Early Civilization

So concludes a group of anthropologists in a new assessment of the demise of the coastal Peruvian people who built the earliest, largest structures in North or…

Health & Medicine

Water Pollution Linked to Declining Male Fertility Study

The study, by Brunel University, the Universities of Exeter and Reading and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, shows for the first time how a group of…

Environmental Conservation

Europe’s aquatic birds will seek new nesting sites in the face of global warming

A joint analysis of all aquatic bird species would give only a hazy picture of biogeographical trends. For this reason, the research team from Malaga divided…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change’s Impact on Biodiversity: 42-Year Study Findings

New research led by the University of York has repeated the survey 42 years later, and found that, on average, species had moved uphill by about 67 metres over…

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