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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted a decision under its “early warning and urgent action” procedures, stating that developed countries’ “persistent refusal” to waive COVID-19 vaccine IP rights – such…

Air pollution remains the world’s greatest external risk to human health, but most of its impact on global life expectancy is concentrated in just six countries, including India, a study has found.The University of Chicago’s Energy Policy…

Artificial neural networks, ubiquitous machine-learning models that can be trained to complete many tasks, are so called because their architecture is inspired by the way biological neurons process information in the human brain. About six…

Global supply chains for solar panels have begun shifting away from a heavy reliance on China, in part because of a recent ban on products from Xinjiang, a region where the U.S. government and United Nations accuse the Chinese government of…

Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics -- uncertainty -- into machine learning systems. Human error and uncertainty are concepts that many artificial intelligence systems fail to grasp,…

People solve new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solution to the new problem. That process, known as analogical reasoning, has long been thought to be a…

A destroyed car is seen at a recycling plant, following a wildfire, in Sesklo, in central Greece. (Image: Reuters)Kikilias, the Greek minister of climate crisis and civil protection, said the majority of the 667 fires were started by people…

Although rare, mucosal melanoma in humans has a low survival rate. It has been difficult to investigate due to a lack of similar cancers in animals for study. Researchers explored a protein common to human and canine mucosal melanoma. The…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 28, 2023 6:50 pm…

Imaging techniques such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and ultrasound have become indispensable in the medical world. Each method not only opens up unique insights into the inside of people,…