Monthly Archives: Dicembre 2019
E-cigarette use significantly increases a person’s risk of developing chronic lung diseases
E-cigarette use significantly increases a person's risk of developing chronic lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to new...
Smaller class sizes are not always associated with better pupil performance and achievement
A new statistical analysis of data from a long-term study on the teaching of mathematics and science has found that smaller class sizes are...
Autonomous cars: to date they are an unrealistic dream
The first driverless cars were supposed to be deployed on the roads of American cities in 2019, but just a few days before the...
A never-before-seen extraterrestrial mineral was lurking inside a meteorite found nearly 70 years ago
According to a new study first reported by the Australian news site, The Age, the mineral doesn't naturally occur anywhere on our planet; as such,...
BedMachine Antarctica : The new map reveals previously unknown topographical features that shape ice...
A new map of the mountains, valleys and canyons hidden under Antarctica's ice has revealed the deepest land on Earth, and will help forecast future...
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to official data released Saturday.
Just released...
NGINX – Russian police detained co-founders and several employees
Russian law enforcement officers have raided the Moscow offices of Nginx - the company behind the world's second most popular web server software...
How did our Milky Way galaxy take this shape?
A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our Milky Way galaxy which has an elegant spiral shape with long arms, took this...
Researchers was able to corrupt the integrity of Intel SGX by controling the voltage...
Undervolting can bring trouble Intel would not care to endure at all.
Fortunately, the latest research warning signals have won Intel's attention and they...
The emotion-detecting AI it’s lacks of any solid scientific foundation to ensure accurate or...
The opinion that affect recognition should be banned from important decisions sounds like an angry cry...but what does it all mean?
Talk is heating...
Metamers – physically distinct stimuli that generate the same perceptual effect
When your mother calls your name, you know it's her voice - no matter the volume, even over a poor cell phone connection.
And...
Children in low income countries (LMICs) are receiving an excessive antibiotic prescriptions
Children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are receiving an average of 25 antibiotic prescriptions during their first five years of life, an excessive...
Scientists discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer’s begins
Scientists at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh have discovered the functions of the area of the brain in which Alzheimer's begins, offering...
Amblyopia – researchers have identified a crucial component in the visual cortical circuit
In decades of studying how neural circuits in the brain's visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear's lab has followed the science...
Conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain
A Dartmouth study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual...
