March 26, 2025

AI transforming healthcare: medical experts discuss benefits, bias, and innovation in clinical settings and research labs

Machine healing

Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, experts say. Are we? When Adam Rodman was a second-year medical student in the 2000s, he visited the library for a patient whose illness had left doctors stumped. Rodman searched the catalog, copied research papers, and shared them with the team. “It made a…
Japan to implement new tax refund system for tourists in 2026

Japan to implement new tax refund system for tourists in 2026

Visitors will pay the full price of goods, including excise tax, at the time of purchase. Subsequently, when leaving the country, they will be able to claim the tax refund at customs control points, such as airports and seaports Japan is preparing to introduce a new consumption tax refund system for international tourists, with the…
AI-powered VR platform helps users overcome public speaking anxiety and build confidence with photorealistic training environments

Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking

Cambridge scientist launches free AI-enabled virtual reality platform that transforms users into skilled and confident public speakers Presenting in front of an audience is an important and unavoidable part of education and career progression, yet it’s also among the most feared activities, with surveys reporting as high as 80% of students finding this a source…
Microalgae for the megacity

Microalgae for the megacity

Technical University of Munich (TUM) research and teaching is contributing to a sustainable future for the city state of Singapore. A visit on site Two centimeters of research data: the tiny green plants sprouting behind glass are soybeans. They are growing in climate chambers on the ground floor of the CREATE Tower on the campus…
Nick Turk-Browne prepares infant participant for memory encoding MRI study at Yale

Why don’t we remember being a baby? New study provides clues

Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the part of the…
Marco de datos energéticos de INTERSTORE

Enabling interoperability and seamless data exchange in the energy sector

INTERSTORE presents a new framework to accelerate the integration of data spaces in the energy industry An energy data space framework developed within the EU-funded INTERSTORE project is expected to play a pivotal role in accelerating the integration of data spaces within the energy sector. The framework is described in a recent article posted on…

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