Wearable E-skin that can measure heart rate and blood pressure, and paper diagnostic machines the…
Month: May 2015
European banks as vulnerable now as before crash
European banks are as vulnerable to failing today as they were in the run-up to…
Children exposed to multiple languages may be better natural communicators
Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a…
New report: First compilation of global addictions
The world’s first comprehensive report on global addictions has revealed that Australians smoke less tobacco…
Important step in artificial intelligence: Stylized letters classified by their images
A circuit implementing the rudimentary artificial neural network successfully classified three letters by their images.
Vineyard habitats help butterflies return
Wine grape vineyards experimenting with sustainable pest management systems are seeing an unexpected benefit: an…
New device could greatly improve speech and image recognition
Researchers have successfully demonstrated pattern recognition using a magnonic holographic memory device, a development that…
Tortoise approach works best, even for evolution
When it comes to winning evolutionary fitness races, the tortoise once again prevails over the…
Breaking through the blood-brain barrier
The bacteria that sneak past the brain’s defenses to cause deadly bacterial meningitis are clever…
Men with high estrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast cancer
Men with naturally high levels of the female hormone estrogen may have a greater risk…