US prisons currently hold about 2 million detainees - many of them held while awaiting trial, and others serving extremely long prison sentences. New research by Professor Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, indicates that a risk prediction algorithm can help dramatically reduce these numbers.According to the professor,...
Four robust micro-structure topologies of extreme metamaterials emerged from the proposed framework. Credit: Swansea UniversityNew research published in Scientific Reports has revealed that a simple but robust new algorithm can help engineers improve the design of cellular materials used in a variety of applications, from defense, biomedical to intelligent structures, and the aerospace sector.Specialized...
There are many books on what's wrong with the economy ( Chang 2014 ; Keen 2011 ; Nelson 2018 , Mazzucato 2018 , Raworth 2018 , Stanford 2015 ) and what we would have to do to change it. Given the small change we've seen in economics training and effective policy economic thinking since...
Research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) at University College Cork (UCC) published August 9, 2021, no leading international scientific journal Nature Aging, presents a new approach to reversing aspects of brain deterioration and cognitive function related to mid-ageing of the microbes in the intestine.Microbe-Based Interventions: A Promising Approach to Reverse Brain Deterioration in Mid-AgeingAs...
The storage vessel after restoration - Photo: Dafna Gazit Israel Antiquities Authority. Medicine: Joseph BocangolzA team of researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority found evidence of a massive earthquake in the city of Jerusalem approximately 2,800 years ago.Previous research had uncovered evidence of a major earthquake in Israel in the mid-eighth century BC at...
3D illustration of an RNA chain. Credit: Christopher Burgstedt/Getty ImagesThe Future of Medicine: New Invention Produces More Pure RNA at a Fraction of the CostResearchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently revealed their discovery of a new RNA production process. The RNA resulting from this process is purer, more copious, and probably more...
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave power… Sustainable resources are an essential pillar of any type of strategy to decarbonize the planet’s power generation sectors as well as eradicate fossil fuel usage. However, for several factors – intermittency, location dependence, land needs, and others – they can not accomplish it on their own.A scalable form...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6z5OduN8voResearcher at a South Korean university UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) has developed a toilet that turns human feces into energy. As a bonus incentive, it provides a small amount of digital currency to be exchanged for coffee or a cup of noodles on campus.How the "generator" that produces energy from...
Photomontage / Shutterstock.comIn the time of climate change, a panel of organic farmers discussed the trials of farming and, highlighted how the people and the planet have primary importance now that agriculture is in the most favorable positionThe severe growth of the impact of raising climate change on a liable system poses a substantial...
Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Scientists Track Meteorite Fall Over Cheltenham, UKMonica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences in the Open University, related who on February 28th at 21:54 GMT, around the time of the late evening news in the UK, an extra news story...
