The push for more restrictive migration policies from some European governments has pivoted toward Europe’s top human rights court. Spearheaded by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, nine European Union member states have penned an open letter calling for a reinterpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights to make … Read more
Untapped energy: Earth’s Crust Holds Hydrogen Power Potential Table of Contents Untapped energy: Earth’s Crust Holds Hydrogen Power Potential Untapped energy: Earth’s Crust Holds Hydrogen Power Potential The Hydrogen “Recipe” Global Hydrogen Hotspots The Hydrogen Imperative Mountains as Hydrogen vaults Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Bucharest – May 16, 2024 – The Earth’s crust generates vast … Read more
Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants – in multiple ways – to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each other. Their … Read more
Insider Brief: A team of international researchers, led by QuTech, created a three-site Kitaev chain using quantum dots in a hybrid InSb/Al nanowire, extending previous two-site designs. They observed that adding a third site improved the stability of zero-energy Majorana modes by making them less sensitive to local perturbations. The device mimics the Kitaev model … Read more
Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to a number of major diseases and premature deaths, according to a new study. Environmental factors are almost 10 times more important than genetic factors when it comes to a person’s risk of death from a number of serious diseases, according to one of the largest … Read more
Studying English literature at the University of Oxford as an Irish undergraduate was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start. On my second evening, the college organised a “formal dinner” for us, the new undergraduates, to meet our tutors. We all had to wear “white-tie” and “sub fusc” while … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a critical gap in our ability to effectively predict and respond to emerging infectious diseases. The devastating impact of the pandemic serves as a lasting reminder. However, as we move past COVID-19, other viruses or new mutations could still pose a threat. With virus outbreaks capable of emerging and evolving with … Read more
A new Oxford University study reveals that deep neural networks (DNNs) naturally favor simpler solutions when learning, acting as an inbuilt form of Occam’s razor that balances the exponential growth of complex solutions. This simplicity bias allows DNNs to generalize well on real-world data but limits their performance on more complex patterns, hinting at deeper … Read more
Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics say, after a new study suggested having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and physical activity levels have been linked to differences in the brain by the age of 20 – particularly the areas linked … Read more
Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and physical activity levels have been linked to differences in the brain by the age of 20 – particularly the … Read more