Researchers propose new and more effective model for automatic speech recognition
Popular voice assistants like Siri and Amazon Alexa have introduced automatic speech recognition (ASR) to the wider public. Though decades in the making, ASR models...
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Research unlocks secrets of native rodents’ rat race to new lands
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has mapped the DNA from more than 150 species of native rodents from across Australia, New Guinea...
Development of a new end-functionalization technique in polymer synthesis
Vinyl polymerization (polymerization of vinyl compounds) is a useful method for preparing sp3-carbon-based main-chain polymers including commodity plastics, where the polymer backbone is constructed from...
Albert Einstein’s doctoral certificate returns to UZH
After traveling the world, Albert Einstein’s doctoral certificate has now returned to where it was issued, the University of Zurich. In 1905, the 26-year-old Albert...
Did primitive cetaceans feed like marine reptiles?
Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction of all the large predatory...
Dragons and brain evolution
These days, dragons are keeping Game of Thrones fans on their toes. But they are also providing important insights into vertebrate brain evolution, as revealed...
Spatiotemporal variation of mortality burden attributable to heatwaves in China, 1979-2020
This study is led by Dr. Cunrui Huang (Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University). Heatwaves impose heavy disease burden by increasing the risk of...
Doctoral thesis studied factors supporting dual careers of young athletes
Stemming from holistic ecological approach, to better understand and support student-athletes development, a variety of factors and their interactions need to be considered (including both...
Quantum materials: entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time
In physics, Schroedinger’s cat is an allegory for two of the most awe-inspiring effects of quantum mechanics: entanglement and superposition. Researchers from Dresden and Munich...
SPIE journal Neurophotonics publishes comprehensive status report on optical imaging methods for brain science
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — The SPIE journal Neurophotonics has published the second part of a comprehensive two-part series that provides an extensive toolkit of optics and photonics...
How artificial intelligence can explain its decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise whether a tissue image contains a tumour. However, exactly how it makes its decision has remained a...
Conservation schemes for farmland birds in Europe – closing conference of the Birds@Farmland initiative
The Birds@Farmland Initiative developed 22 conservation schemes for birds inhabiting European farmland. These conservation schemes – among others – introduce bird-friendly management of rice fields...
‘Plug-and-play’ plasmonic metafibers for ultrafast fibre lasers
Integrating plasmonic metasurfaces on optical fibre tips forming so-called metafibers enrichs the functionalities of an ordinary optical fibre, yielding a variety of advanced applications such...
Decentralized security provider Silence Laboratories raises S$2.4mil in seed funding
Silence Laboratories, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Singapore, has closed a US$1.7 million (about S$2.4m) round in seed funding, led by pi Ventures. The round...
Establishing a novel strategy to tackle Huntington’s disease
Through an international joint research effort involving ProQR Therapeutics of the Netherlands, Université Grenoble Alpes of France, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden,...
