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At the start of Child Protection Week (CPW) 2021, which runs from 30 May to 6 June, the Children’s Institute (CI), based at the University of Cape Town (UCT), wrote about the impact of government’s cuts to the Child Support Grant (CSG)…

New Zealand's first research examining the brain tissue of people with sports-related brain degeneration is being funded by the Health Research Council.The research will be carried out by a scientist in the Centre for Brain Research who…

Young female and nonbinary people across the UK and Ireland are being encouraged to consider a career in geoscience with a virtual event day in June.The Girls into Geoscience initiative, now in its seventh year of operation, aims to…

New research has shown that if people achieve and maintain substantial weight loss to manage their type 2 diabetes, many can also effectively control their high blood pressure and stop or cut down on their anti-hypertensive medication.A…

A research team from the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology (ABCT) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a novel type of biomimetic nanosheet with a multi-modal imaging function, which can track…

Neuroscientist Tommaso Patriarchi has shed light on the internal workings of a mouse's brain – using fluorescent neurosensors, which shine in a certain color, depending on which chemical messenger docks onto them. Patriarchi developed the…

On May 19th, members of the Leprince-Ringuet and OMEGA laboratories received a delegation from the CNRS National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This day was also an…

Scientists have begun the search for extraterrestrial life in the Solar System in earnest, but such life may be subtly or profoundly different from Earth-life, and methods based on detecting particular molecules as biosignatures may not…

Research, development and production of new materials depend crucially on fast and precise simulation methods. Machine learning, in which artificial intelligence (AI) independently acquires and uses new knowledge, will make it possible in…

Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, has been awarded the "Rosa Camuna" Prize 2021, which is assigned every year by the Lombardy Region. The motivation for the award:For the dedication and professionalism with which, for…