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Every year, as 22 March rolls around, many in Europe and across the globe anticipate World Water Day with mixed feelings. While the previous 365 days have almost always seen some advancement in the role and status of women protecting freshwater globally, the day also provides a moment to reflect on where we go from here. While leading an annual program that seeks to empower early-career African women in freshwater science, I have many thoughts on the topic. When it comes to the status of women in STEM, the picture is complex, sometimes confusing, at times concerning, but ultimately hopeful. UN...
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Scientists in Israel have managed to create artificial testicles in what could be a significant step in helping men with fertility issues. The testicles, or testes, are responsible for sperm production and androgen synthesis which play a part in male sexual development. Infertility affects up to 7 per cent of men. Currently, no in vitro system exists for modelling the testis and producing sperm in the same way that IVF treatment can harvest eggs from a female. “Artificial testicles are a promising model for basic research on testicle development and function, which can be translated into thera...
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Researchers have found that Omalizumab, a drug commonly prescribed to treat asthma, could also limit “life-threatening reactions” to food allergies in children. Omalizumab, known under the brand name Xolair, is a medication approved to treat severe persistent asthma caused by an allergy. “The day-to-day life of patients with food allergy is consumed by fear of accidental exposure to food allergens,” Dr Robert Wood, professor of paediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University and the study’s main author, said in a statement. “Our findings have the potential to be very meaningful, and potentially ev...
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What happens when you train an artificial intelligence (AI) system at the same pace as a baby? A team of researchers from New York University (NYU) equipped a baby with a head-mounted camera and recorded videos from when the child was six months old through their second birthday. They managed to record around one per cent of the child’s waking hours, which they used to train an AI system or neural network - a computational model able to learn patterns from input data. They published their findings in the journal Science. Despite this relatively low amount of data compared to the usual massive ...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may help psychiatrists predict whether antidepressants will be effective, according to a new study, which could save time for patients and improve their psychiatric care. While antidepressants can be prescribed to treat moderate to severe depression, health professionals have to wait six to eight weeks to see if there’s an improvement and change the treatment if that’s not the case. Using AI, researchers from the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Amsterdam UMC) and Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands found a way to reduce this delay. They focuse...
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OceanXplorer stretches the notion of what a ship can be. At 87 metres long, it holds two deep sea submersibles - one for scientists, the other for media - and laboratories lit up like film sets. The red carpet is rolled out when I visit the vessel in December, during the UN climate summit in Dubai. It’s docked down a guarded arm of the harbour, and has for days been hosting a stream of esteemed guests like Bill Gates and Jordanian royalty. This is the world’s most advanced media and research vessel, according to OceanX - a nonprofit arm of Dalio Philanthropies, which ‘furthers the diverse phil...
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The European Commission is open to reassess its decision to renew authorisation of glyphosate for another ten years on the basis of fresh scientific research expected to be peer-reviewed this year, a spokesperson has told Euronews. The EU executive renewed approval of the notorious weedkiller on 28 November last year, claiming the scientific assessment carried out by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) “did not identify critical areas of concern”. That decision was challenged on January 25 by six environmental NGOs led by Pesticide Action Network ...
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Scientists have developed a way to provide insulin orally, via a capsule or sugar-free chocolate, and successfully tested it on animals. This new insulin will be ready for human testing in 2025. Roughly 61 million people have diabetes in Europe and between 5 and 10 per cent of them have type 1 diabetes, meaning that they need to take insulin daily to control their blood glucose levels. Some people with the more common type 2 diabetes also need to take insulin. The three most common ways to take insulin are with a syringe, an insulin pen or an insulin pump, according to the International Diabet...
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"How did humans get here" is the simple question Dr Tim Waring, associate professor at the University of Maine in the US, set out to answer in a recent paper focused on climate change. "If we understand the processes by which we have arrived at having such a major impact on the global biosphere, then we can try to solve the problems that we are facing," he told Euronews Next. Waring works on climate change through the lens of cultural evolution, a field of study at the intersection of biology and "all social sciences". His most recent paper analyses how human evolution might prevent us from so...
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Did you ever wonder whether the presence of your brothers and sisters contributes to your overall happiness? A new study suggests that a higher number of siblings is associated with poorer mental health, although numerous factors must be considered. The study involved 9,417 Chinese teenagers and 9,191 American teenagers, each receiving slightly different sets of questions. “Our results couldn’t have been easily predicted before we did the study,” Doug Downey, the study’s lead author and professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, said in a statement. “Other studies have shown that hav...
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