“Practice makes perfect” is no mere cliché, according to a new study from researchers at The Rockefeller University and Ucla. Instead, it’s the recipe for mastering a task, because repeating an activity over and over solidifies neural pathways in your brain.

A recent commentary in Cell Press’ One Earth, co-authored by Griffith University researchers, advocates for a transformative shift in the chemical industry towards sustainability. The proposed solution leverages catalysis to utilize sustainable waste resources, moving from a linear to a circular economy.

With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers are able to teach swimming to microbots that could only perform relatively simple maneuvers with fixed locomotory gaits previously. Now, microbots can learn swimming and also adapt to changing conditions.

A team of researchers has developed an innovative open-source platform called DL4-Mic-Everywhere. This platform provides life scientists with easy access to advanced artificial intelligence for the analysis of microscopy images. It enables other researchers, regardless of their computational expertise, to easily train and use deep learning models on their own data.

A study in Denmark reveals a connection between air pollution and dementia. “The novelty of this study is the very detailed and accurate data that we use,” says the researcher behind the study. Findings indicate that air pollution promotes brain inflammation, accelerating cognitive decline and increasing the risk of dementia.

Natalie Farny, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher has been granted 1.2 million dollars to determine how the environment impacts gene expression in bacteria. She has also received the Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Researchers have found that routine brain scanning in patients experiencing psychosis may help to identify the root cause behind it as there is a possibility that patients may also have other physical illnesses or conditions that maybe causing these symptoms.

Scientists from Northwestern Medicine in the USA collaborated with scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Hong Kong and have identified a drug that has the possibility of becoming the first treatment for aggressive meningiomas that recur.

Rice has a long history as a staple food in Japan and other parts of Asia. The results of a new study by an international research collaboration suggest that the emergence of cultivated rice from wild rice plants is the result of three gene mutations that make the seed fall from the plant less easily.

Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14 percent chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalisation, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC. The results have been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.