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Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases in Chinese adults

Dec 1, 2022

Tobacco smoking is projected to cause one billion deaths worldwide this century, mainly in low and middle income countries (LMICs) such as China. Smoking also increases the risks of developing...

Meet the recipients of the VC and Chancellor's Annual Awards

Dec 1, 2022

The 2022 Vice-Chancellor's and Chancellor's Annual Awards were held last night highlighting the outstanding contribution and commitment of professional and academic staff at ANU. Staff enjoyed the special evening with...

Fitness levels can be accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required

Dec 1, 2022

Since the model can also detect fitness changes over time, it could also be useful in estimating fitness levels for entire populations and identifying the effects of lifestyle trends. A...

Busy GPUs: Sampling and pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs

Dec 1, 2022

Now, a new method, called SALIENT (SAmpling, sLIcing, and data movemeNT), developed by researchers at MIT and IBM Research, improves the training and inference performance by addressing three key bottlenecks...

COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests

Dec 1, 2022

School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children, as well as their academic progress, new evidence shows....

Quality together – University supports open access in science and research

Dec 1, 2022

Researchers’ work is more and more affected by open science and open access, and they are important principles for the entire university. For a researcher, open access and open data...

Virtual tourists can now teleport back 600 million years, exploring the Flinders Ranges’ ancient beginnings

Dec 1, 2022

From today it’s possible, with the launch of a 360-degree virtual tour of the 600-million-year-old Flinders Ranges in South Australia. One of Australia’s most captivating landscapes can now be explored...

NYU Purchases 3 Metrotech Center as Part of Long-Term Investment in Engineering

Dec 1, 2022

NYU President Andrew Hamilton today announced that the University has purchased 3 MetroTech Center, a 350,000 square foot building adjacent to NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. “The expansion of NYU...

Meet the recipients of the VC and Chancellor's Annual Awards

Dec 1, 2022

The 2022 Vice-Chancellor's and Chancellor's Annual Awards were held last night highlighting the outstanding contribution and commitment of professional and academic staff at ANU. Staff enjoyed the special evening with...

Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds

Dec 1, 2022

In 1867, he divided all living birds into either the ‘ancient’ or ‘modern’ jaw groups. Huxley’s assumption was that the ‘ancient’ jaw configuration was the original condition for modern birds,...