US prisons currently hold about 2 million detainees - many 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, there is...
New research published in Scientific Reports has revealed that a plain but robust new algorithm can help engineers improve the design of cellular materials used in various applications, from defense, biomedical to intelligent structures and the aerospace sector.How cell materials perform can be uncertain, so calculations to help engineers predict how they will react...
On August 9, 2021, research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) at University College Cork (UCC), published in the leading international scientific journal Nature Aging, presents a new approach to invert aspects of brain deterioration and cognitive function related to aging through the microbes in the intestine.As our population ages, one of the leading global...
3D illustration of an RNA chain. Credit: Christopher Burgstedt/Getty ImagesRecently, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed their discovery of a new RNA production process. The RNA resulting from this process is purer, more copious, and probably more economical than any other process currently in existence. This new technique removes the most significant...
A researcher 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 a cup of noodles or coffee on campus.How the "generator" that produces energy...
Credit: Photomontage / Shutterstock.comIn the time of climate change, a panel of organic farmers discussed farming trials. It highlighted how the people and the planet have primary importance now that agriculture is most favorable.The severe growth of the impact of raising climate change on a liable system poses a substantial threat to the livelihoods...
Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Monica 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, a different news story emerged in the night sky -...
Vega is the fifth brightest star, excluding the sun, that can be seen from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)A possible searing-hot planet was spotted by astronomers, orbiting Vega, one of the brightest and most known stars in the sky.Approximately the size of Neptune, the candidate alien planet lies very close to Vega, taking 2.5 Earth...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars.In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
