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Astronomers develop novel way to ‘see’ the first stars through the fog of the early Universe

Jul 22, 2022

Using a radio telescope itself introduces distortions to the signal received, which can completely obscure the cosmological signal of interest. Now the Cambridge-led team has developed a methodology to see...

The tiny bodies of bats allow perfect balance between flight costs and heat dissipation

Jul 22, 2022

A McGill-led team of researchers is shedding light on this long-standing debate over bats’ body sizes and focus on why bats are seemingly non-conforming to ecogeographical patterns found in other...

Lonely old deers: ageing red deer become less social as they grow older

Jul 22, 2022

A multidisciplinary team led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh has found that wild red deer become less sociable with age. As female deer grow older, they...

AI speeds sepsis detection to prevent hundreds of deaths

Jul 22, 2022

"This is an extraordinary leap that will save thousands of sepsis patients annually. To address the problem, Saria and other Johns Hopkins doctors and researchers developed the Targeted Real-Time Early...

New report: Wealth inequality in Australia and the rapid rise in house prices

Jul 22, 2022

The research points to the precariousness of life for people on low incomes in Australia. The wealth inequality pandemic: COVID and wealth inequality says our overall household wealth has grown...

The U.S. is sweltering. The heat wave of 1936 was far deadlier.

Jul 22, 2022

The country and much of the world are currently baking in a brutal heat wave. The North American heat wave of 1936 followed one of the coldest recorded winters in...

People around world tend to talk to babies in higher voice

Jul 22, 2022

AnswerFirst clip is adult-directed; second, infant-directed speech. Global consistencies in infant-directed speech included higher pitch and increased pitch range. The group trained a machine-learning model to use features like pitch...

No pain, no gain? How the brain chooses between pain and profit

Jul 22, 2022

In a recent article in PNAS, McGill University researchers show that the ventral striatum plays a crucial role when it comes to choices about future pain versus future profit. Watching...

Remote Australians lack access to quality drinking water

Jul 21, 2022

The researchers reviewed public reporting by 177 water utilities to measure gaps in drinking water quality in regional and remote Australia. They assessed water quality performance against the Australian Drinking...

Monkeypox concern grows as virus spreads in Chicago: ‘They need to get loud about this’

Jul 21, 2022

“We have the tools to stop this from moving to other populations.”Nine Chicagoans have been hospitalized because of the illness, Chicago Department of Public Health spokesperson Andrew Buchanan said Monday....