Researchers have enhanced the efficiency of an essential building block of many quantum devices beyond a seemingly inherent limit. This breakthrough is expected to open up new perspectives for a wide range of photonic quantum technologies.

Babies and young children with more mature communities of bacteria present in their gut are less likely to develop allergy-related wheezing or asthma, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Milan, Italy.

Researchers at the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern have revealed that compound events i.e. when marine heatwaves and ocean acidity co-occur, it can prove extremely dangerous for marine ecosystems.

A study carried out by the University of Oxford has revealed that the use of the social networking site Facebook across the globe cannot be linked directly to the negative well-being of its users.

Reef health can be measured with the help of sound recordings. Scientists at the University of Exeter conducted a study in which a computer algorithm was trained to identify healthy and degraded reefs based on numerous recordings. The result showed that the computer successfully identified reef health 92 % of the time.

The upper images are the chest radiographs of patients from 21 to 40 years old and from 81 to 100 years old chronologically and the lower images are a visualization of the AI’s focus (both after averaging). Red indicates the points most useful for age determination.

A study by Carnegie Mellon University, Bayes Business School, and Bocconi University reveals gender differences in information sharing: men are less inclined to share negative information compared to women, while both genders are similar in sharing positive news.

Scientists from the University of Barcelona and Rockefeller University carried out a study in which the genomic sequences of the oxytocin and vasotocin genes between modern humans, non-human primate species and archaic humans were compared to understand the evolution of human prosociality.

Lab results are often complex and not easy to interpret. For many diseases, a medical diagnosis requires the analysis and combination of different values. That’s why one of the themes at the Medica Labmed Forum at Medica 2021 highlighted “Integrative and AI-driven diagnostics” - and illustrated how AI can help interpret laboratory results and values. In his forum presentation, Florian Stumpe showcased the medicalvalues AI-based software platform, which is designed to support decision-making for physicians. In this Medica-tradefair.com interview, he talks about the possible applications of AI in laboratory diagnostics.

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.