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An upgrade in The University of Queensland’s artificial intelligence capabilities could help to revolutionise pathology laboratories across Australia. Professor Brian Lovell said UQ’s high-performance computer, Weiner, was now able to deliver unprecedented performance for image processing and deep learning algorithms, allowing advancements in digital pathology. “We’ve also managed to run a number of graphics processing … Read more
An international research team has found strong discordances between astrophysical data, revealing a cosmological crisis where disparate observed properties of the Universe appear to be mutually inconsistent. The discovery, recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, pointed out that the new, precise measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies made by the Planck satellite strongly prefer … Read more
With climate change, plants of the future will consume more water than in the present day, leading to less water available for people living in North America and Eurasia, according to a Dartmouth-led study in Nature Geoscience. The research suggests a drier future despite anticipated precipitation increases for places like the United States and Europe, populous … Read more
To fully materialize the potential of organic electronic devices is to have their performance on flexible substrates as same as that on rigid substrate such as glass. However, the performance of flexible organic optoelectronic devices still lags behind the performance of devices on rigid substrates. This is due, in particular, to the lack of high-performance … Read more
Multilevel societies have, until now, only been known to exist among large-brained mammals including humans, other primates, elephants, giraffes, and dolphins. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz and the University of Konstanz report the existence of a multilevel society in a small-brained bird, the vulturine guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum). The … Read more
The sight of a RoboBee careening towards a wall or crashing into a glass box may have once triggered panic in the researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), but no more. Researchers at SEAS and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering … Read more
When it comes to managing anxiety disorders, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth had it right when he referred to sleep as the “balm of hurt minds.” While a full night of slumber stabilizes emotions, a sleepless night can trigger up to a 30% rise in anxiety levels, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. … Read more
Dr Jasper Leuven from Utrecht University (now working at Royal HaskoningDHV) investigated the effect of sea-level rise on estuaries worldwide. These estuaries tend to be densely populated areas that extremely sensitive to changes in the landscape. He shows that different-sized estuaries respond differently to sea-level rise, and his work provides a basis for carrying out … Read more
The study, published in Nature Plants, was carried out by an international research team, which mapped the genetic code from a sample of wheat harvested over 3,000 years ago, that was excavated in 1924 from the Hememiah North Spur site in Egypt. The sample, which is currently on display in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian … Read more
Supported single-atom catalysts (SACs) have emerged as a new frontier in heterogeneous catalysis and have attracted broad interest for their demonstrated good catalytic performance due to high atomic efficiency and relatively homogeneous active sites. Strategies have been developed to fabricate various SACs. However, how to effectively stabilize these SACs remains challenging as singly dispersed isolated … Read more