Tag: researchers
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Mouse embryos grown in space for first time, Japan researchers say – Technology
[ad_1] Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it could be possible for humans to reproduce in space, a group of Japanese scientists said. The researchers, including Teruhiko Wakayama, professor of University of Yamanashi’s Advanced Biotechnology Center, and a team from the Japan Aerospace…
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Chinese, and Nigerian Researchers Collaborate on Super Sub-Saharan Africa Electricity System – The China Global South Project
[ad_1] A team of Chinese and Nigerian researchers spread across four universities are modeling a massive new cross-border electricity generation and transmission system connecting 12 Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) countries as one of the fastest solutions to addressing insufficient energy access on the continent. Humphrey Adun, one of the project’s researchers from Nigeria and a lecturer…
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In the Big City, Wildlife Researchers Are On the Prowl
[ad_1] Early one morning last month, Laura Dudley Plimpton found herself in Forest Park, in Queens, staring at a pair of captured raccoons. It was not the first time that Ms. Plimpton, an ecologist at Columbia University, had caught two of them in a cage trap designed for one. But typically when that happened, she…
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COVID-19: Doctors, researchers, teachers warn of bad fall for illness
[ad_1] Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Local Health Health Several B.C. doctors warn the province is not prepared heading into the fall and winter respiratory illness season. Published Aug 11, 2023 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 5 minute read B.C. will be launching a fall vaccination campaign to roll out the updated COVID-19…
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Researchers find oldest-known species of swimming jellyfish in Rockies
[ad_1] Breadcrumb Trail Links News National “We’ve uncovered the oldest large swimming jellyfish that we know of in the fossil record” Author of the article: CP, The Canadian Press Colette Derworiz Published Aug 01, 2023 • 2 minute read An artist’s rendering of a group of Burgess Shale jellyfish is shown in a handout. Photo…
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Why researchers say you can hear the sound of silence
[ad_1] Listen closely! Silence can actually be heard according to a new study that puts sounds, or rather lack of sounds, to the test with auditory illusions. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University gathered 1,000 people to listen to several audio illusions that included sequences of audibly loud scenarios followed by a few…
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Researchers Discover a Potential Cause for Parkinson's
[ad_1] In Could 2023, researchers from the College of Helsinki linked a pressure of Desulfovibrio micro organism as a causative agent of Parkinson’s illness.1 Researchers hope this breakthrough will allow screening for and elimination of the micro organism from the intestine and doubtlessly stop the illness.2 Parkinson’s illness causes unintended or uncontrollable actions that end…
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Manitoba First Nation and Colombian researchers discuss ‘forensics of care’ in their work on unmarked graves
[ad_1] WARNING: This story accommodates distressing particulars. A southwestern Manitoba First Nation linked with guests from Colombia this weekend to raised inform its ongoing analysis into unmarked graves at a former residential faculty. Sioux Valley Dakota Nation hosted delegates from the Committee for the Rights of the Victims of Bojayá on Saturday for an occasion at Brandon College referred to as “Data…
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Machine learning allows researchers to decode visual cortex signals into video frames
[ad_1] By means of the trying glass: If this week’s science information is something to go by, it will not be lengthy earlier than Huge Brother is peering inside our heads. Approaching the heels of US scientists revealing a GPT mannequin that decodes human ideas into phrases, Swiss researchers demonstrated a machine-learning mannequin that interprets…
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Can Pornhub evolve? A national security expert, bodybuilder and porn researchers are going to try
[ad_1] Prof. Leah West, a go-to skilled at Carleton College on such topics as nationwide safety regulation and counter-terrorism, will now offer her recommendation on a subject that, at first look, could seem outdoors her typical wheelhouse. She is a part of the advisory board of the Ottawa-based private-equity agency that just lately bought the…