One of the world’s most active volcanoes hot-spot Italy’s Mount Etna, has erupted twice in less than 48 hours, spewing a fountain of lava and ash into the sky on February 18, 2021. After Etna’s…
Working toward eradication of avian influenza
Yoshihiro Sakoda, DVM, Ph.D.Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Research Center for Zoonosis Control (CZC)Research areas: Avian influenza, microbiology, disease controlResponsible Official of the OIE Reference Laboratory at Hokkaido University From April to…
Algorithm can detect emotion and depression through voice
A new study on deep learning algorithm can detect emotion, including depression, using a voice signal. The system, developed by Teddy Surya Gunawan at the International Islamic University Malaysia, could be used by suicide prevention…
Mitigating Climate Change: It Starts With Better Ocean Data
BY Ayesha Renyard Glaciar Perito Moreno, El Calafate, Argentina For many years, the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere.…
Ten “keys to reality” from Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek
By Jennifer Chu CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(MIT News Office) --In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to the Vietnam War and the National Guard’s shooting of student demonstrators at…