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Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive MS

Oct 16, 2024

Recent advances have raised expectations that stem cell therapies might help ameliorate this damage. The team also looked for signs that the stem cells were having a neuroprotective effect –...

Child Pneumonia Cases Surge in Europe — As Fears Rise Over Outbreak in China

Oct 16, 2024

The Netherlands is experiencing a bizarre uptick in pneumonia cases among children, marking the second country to report an outbreak of this type this week. This is the largest outbreak...

Gamifying safety helps teens prevent farm injury

Oct 16, 2024

The ‘Calm Your Farm’ game, created through a UNSW Sydney-led research collaboration, increases knowledge and awareness about farm safety. Every teenager living in a rural or regional area has a...

Alien haze, cooked in a lab, clears view to distant water worlds

Oct 16, 2024

They are the first to determine how much haze can form in water planets beyond the solar system, Hörst said. Haze consists of solid particles suspended in gas, and it...

A year of ChatGPT: 5 ways the AI marvel has changed the world

Oct 16, 2024

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. AI safetyChatGPT forced governments around the world to wise up to the idea that...

Richard Fletcher named a 2023 Packard Fellow

Oct 16, 2024

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that atomic physicist Richard Fletcher, assistant professor of physics and a researcher at MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) and the MIT...

Students pitch transformative ideas in generative AI at MIT Ignite competition

Oct 16, 2024

The MIT Ignite event is part of a broader focus on generative AI at MIT put forth by Kornbluth. This semester, students and postdocs across MIT were invited to submit...

Johns Hopkins research makes waves with better flood damage forecasting

Oct 16, 2024

However, due to time constraints and lack of data, these models sometimes incorporate "off-the-shelf" damage calculations based on previous unrelated floods. A Johns Hopkins expert on natural disaster risk modeling...

Stem cell-based treatment controls blood sugar in people with Type 1 diabetes

Oct 16, 2024

Stem cell-based treatment controls blood sugar in people with Type 1 diabetes Science, Health & TechnologyAn innovative stem cell-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels...

Three reasons why removing grazing animals from Australia’s arid lands for carbon credits is a bad idea

Oct 16, 2024

Carbon credits must be scrutinised – and none more so than credits for taking grazing animals off arid rangelands. If you run a large polluting facility and can’t work out...