Science & Technology

A recent study identified 15 risk factors, which are similar to those for late-onset dementia, including hearing impairment, heart disease, social isolation and lower socioeconomic status. According to the findings, lower formal education, genes and lifestyle factors such as alcohol…

Human tears carry a substance that dampens down aggression, according to researchers, who believe the drops may have evolved over time to protect wailing babies from harm. The scientists add that sniffing a woman’s tears reduces aggressive behavior in men,…

A new study shows that economic growth rates make a big difference when it comes to prospects for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, as per the Paris The study, conducted by the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the…

British researchers have developed a non-invasive, reusable ‘ECG vest’ that takes high-resolution images of the heart’s electrical activity in five minutes. Combining its data with cardiac MRI scans can better identify people at risk of future heart problems and could…

About 12% of the world’s bird species have been driven to extinction by human activity, new research has found – double previous estimates. The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, estimates that about 1,430 bird species have died out…

According to the pioneering coral scientist, Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, from the University of Queensland, Australia, record-breaking land and sea temperatures, driven by climate breakdown, will probably cause “unprecedented mass coral bleaching and mortality” throughout 2024. The upper ocean is undergoing unmatched…

Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, has said that ChatGPT, the wildly popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from OpenAI, is currently a “mess” when it’s used to write articles on the platform. Wales told Euronews Next that a Wikipedia article written…

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system.…

A team of scientists at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), led by Dr. Chan-hoon Park, have designed and developed a special powered wheelchair that addresses the major problems regular products cause for people with walking disability. The…

According to BBC News, trainee surgeons are working with the new AI technology, to learn more precise keyhole brain surgery. Developed at University College London, the AI system has analyzed more than 200 videos of this type of pituitary surgery,…