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How big tech embraced disabled users
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
Apple and Google are leading the field, harnessing the sensors and cameras of their best-selling smartphones that allow users to edit, enhance and improve their...
Climate change likely led to violence in early Andean populations
Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)
Violence during climatic change has evidence in history. University of California, Davis, researchers said they have have found a pattern of increased violence ...
When is migration successful adaptation to climate change
Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)
The study shows that while migration is increasingly recognised as an effective way to deal with climate risks, or a form of adaptation, it is far from a silver...
UNESCO says US plans to rejoin body from July
Jun 12, 2023 (AFP)
"It is a strong act of confidence in UNESCO and in multilateralism," said its director general Audrey Azoulay when she informed representatives of the body's me...
AI chatbots offer comfort to the bereaved
Jun 08, 2023 (AFP)
Ryu Sun-yun sits in front of a microphone and a giant screen, where her husband, who died a few months earlier, appears. "Sweetheart, it's me," the man on the s...
Brazil lawmakers vote to limit demarcation of Indigenous reserves
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
The text, passed by the Chamber of Deputies on a 283-155 vote, establishes that reserves can only be on land occupied by Indigenous people at the time of the pr...
Iraq's Christians fight to save threatened ancient language
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some...
Serotonin's impact across molecular and whole-brain levels in a simple animal
May 24, 2023 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT working in a simple animal model present a comprehensive accounting of how s...
Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers from the French research organisation "Centre national de la recherche scientifique" (CNRS), together with Prof. Dr. Frank Preusser from the Univers...
Evidence of Ice Age human migrations from China to the Americas and Japan
May 10, 2023 (SPX)
"The Asian ancestry of Native Americans is more complicated than previously indicated," says first author Yu-Chun Li, a molecular anthropologist at the Chinese ...
Scientists reveal more inclusive update to human genome
May 10, 2023 (UPI)
The new human pangenome was unveiled Wednesday in an article in the scientific journal Nature and has the potential to revolutionize personalized medicine. It c...
Archaeologists map hidden NT landscape where first Australians lived more than 60,000 years ago
May 07, 2023 (SPX)
These ground-breaking methods showed how this important landscape in the Northern Territory was altered as sea levels rose about 8,000 years ago. Their discover...
India's new mums live in hope and fear for next generation
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
Phenomenal economic growth in recent decades has had a transformative effect on Indian families, with the average woman now giving birth to just two children, d...
Do people and monkeys see colors the same way?
May 02, 2023 (SPX)
"Distinct connections found in the human retina may indicate recent evolutionary adaptations for sending enhanced color vision signals from the eye to the brain...
'A new history': Brazil's Lula decrees six Indigenous reserves
Apr 28, 2023 (AFP)
Under the decrees, Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of natural resources on these lands, viewed by scientists as a bulwark against Amazon deforest...
India to passes China as world's most populous nation: UN
Apr 24, 2023 (AFP)
"By the end of this month, India's population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then surpassing the population of mainland China," the UN ...
Focus on reproductive rights rather than population numbers, UN urges
Apr 19, 2023 (AFP)
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -- the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency -- acknowledged there was widespread anxiety over the size of the w...
A new peptide may hold potential as an Alzheimer's treatment
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
When the researchers treated mice with a peptide that blocks the hyperactive version of an enzyme called CDK5, they found dramatic reductions in neurodegenerati...
New evidence pushes open habitats in Africa back by 10 million years
Apr 16, 2023 (SPX)
Two new studies recently published in Science led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities put this idea to rest. The findings outline paleoeco...
Composition of joint lubricant potential culprit behind osteoarthritis
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
The composition of synovial fluid, or joint lubricant, changes significantly in osteoarthritis: The concentration and molecular weight of hyaluronic acid tends ...
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