UVA Health researchers have developed a powerful new risk assessment tool for predicting outcomes in heart failure patients. The researchers have made the tool publicly available for free to clinicians. The new tool improves on existing risk assessment tools for heart failure by harnessing the power of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite the pervasive public interest in animal welfare, the framing of animal rights activism in the media has largely contributed to its depoliticization, argues a paper in Polity. “Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals,’” by Serrin Rutledge-Prior, presents the reaction to a day of animal rights protests in cities and towns around Australia … Read more
King hosts garden party with senior royals as Prince Harry to miss reunion Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have praised their “unforgettable” tour of Nigeria amid a furore surrounding their charity’s paperwork. The … Read more
The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence are coming together at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to solve one of humankind’s most pressing issues: generating clean, reliable energy from fusing plasma. Unlike traditional computer code, machine … Read more
a) Ball-and-stick representation of 5Cz-BO. b) Packing pattern of 5Cz-BO. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202313602 A research team proposes a novel design in deep blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) which realizes a series of highly efficient luminescent compounds closely aligned with the BT.2020 blue light standard. The study was published in Advanced Materials. OLED … Read more
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Singer Cher Lloyd said was “counting her lucky stars” after she got into an accident while in a car with her two children when the brakes failed. The … Read more
A young whale’s journey across the Mediterranean highlights the many threats facing ocean animals, researchers say. Scientists from Greenpeace and the universities of Exeter and Haifa studied whales and dolphins in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Israel. They found Cuvier’s beaked whales, bottlenose dolphins and sperm whales — including a young adult male … Read more
Five key elements for obtaining large R-D spin splitting. Credit: Chemical Science (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D3SC06636C A research team led by Prof. Li Xingxing and academician Yang Jinlong from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has developed two-dimensional (2D) chiral metal-organic frameworks as Rashba-Dresselhaus (R-D) semiconductors with large spin splitting. The study was published … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic Senate primary in Maryland, beating an adult beverage chain mogul who had made the race a staggering display of his own wealth. … Read more
An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in Andalusia, has just discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star. This new planet, located 1,200 light-years from Earth, is 50% larger than Jupiter but seven times … Read more
