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UN report says gender inequality worsens global water crisis
PARIS/NEW YORK — Gender inequalities are aggravating the global water crisis, with women and girls bearing the heaviest…
New model predicts how mosquitoes will fly
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Brain circuit needed to incorporate new information may be linked to schizophrenia
CAMBRIDGE, MA — One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is difficulty incorporating new information about the world. This…
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
Cambridge, MA – MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like…
Global Leaders Affirm Central Role for Nuclear at 2026 Nuclear Energy Summit
Paris— World leaders, government ministers and heads of industry, international organizations and international financial institutions gathered in Paris…
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions
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Culture
Tecan’s 1st virtual genomics symposium
Marking 20 years since the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome Tecan is hosting its first virtual genomics symposium on February 24th, 2021.
India’s culture of coping with cancer
Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
Nobel Prize in chemistry 2020 has been awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to Roger Penros, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Roger Penros, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for exploring Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret.
