Who hasn't felt the temptation to fling a lengthy manual into the trash, or just drive on instead of asking for directions? After all, following instructions is often tiresome, and we can just figure it out on our own… ...
May 19, 2022
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Those hoping to avoid one of the worst side effects of aging—bone, joint and muscle pain that doesn't go away—might need to exercise a lot harder and more often than previously believed.
Feb 1, 2022
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An artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithm that has been designed by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in partnership with iThemba LABS, the Provincial Government of Gauteng and York University in ...
Apr 12, 2021
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Despite being easy and inexpensive to treat, a group of common bacterial and parasitic infections kill hundreds of thousands of people in tropical countries each year. In a new paper, Yale SOM's Teresa Chahine and her co-authors ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Within a short span of time and with few instructions, people can solve complex problems from scratch, for instance, loading the trunk of a car with seemingly too many objects. This is the core of human intelligence—its ...
Dec 15, 2020
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An international task force, including two University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists, concludes in new research that mobile health (mHealth) technologies are a viable option to monitor COVID-19 patients at home ...
Aug 13, 2020
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A new study finds that fewer women were first authors on COVID-19-related research papers published in the first half of this year. The difference was particularly striking during the first two months of the pandemic when ...
Jul 9, 2020
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A considerable amount of development takes places in the brains of young children. Children experience a steep increase in their cognitive skills—including self-regulation—at an early age. What exactly is self-regulation? ...
Feb 26, 2020
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A drug used to treat high blood pressure may alleviate anxiety induced by long-term heavy alcohol use, and also halt the damage such drinking can cause to the brain's ability to grow new cells, QUT research shows.
Dec 11, 2019
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The big data explosion, which allows scientists to analyse factors such as people's lifestyles, genes and medical records to develop personalised treatments for conditions, has so far mostly benefitted rare diseases with ...
May 23, 2018
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