French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to invest €1.5 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2022 in a bid to make France a world leader in the field. The
Archive for March 2018
The last few days have seen open season on Facebook. As a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social network has been under fire from its critics. The group’s
Scientists have discovered that global weather cycles such as El Niño affect as much as two-thirds of the world’s cropland. The researchers say their findings have the potential to improve
A coalition of 20 different civil society groups in Europe has called on EU leaders to overhaul the bloc’s food and farming sectors and reduce the production and consumption of
The West Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than at any point in the last 450 years, according to a new study. Scientists say the high melt rate is due
Scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics that shows promise in treating superbug MRSA, which is resistant to conventional antibiotics. Led by researchers at Brown University and Rhode Island
Previously overlooked in both anatomy and medicine, scientists have just discovered a new feature of the human body that may soon be classified as an entirely new organ: “the interstitium”.
In a global assessment of “the triple burden of malnutrition”, a recent study has found that world hunger is decreasing in the wake of rising obesity, revealing a growing problem:
The incidence of childhood asthma in Bradford, UK is well above the national average. A new study out of the University of Leeds in England has shown that air pollution
Confirmed through experiments, researchers have developed a way to generate electricity, through simple fluctuations in temperature, that may one day allow us to harness the simple movement of trees as