AUSTIN, Texas — Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new noninvasive technique for simulating repairs to the heart’s mitral valve with levels of accuracy reliable enough for use in a clinical setting. (more…)
People can’t yet be in two places at the same time. But Los Angeles-based musician Julianna Barwick is getting around that little problem to treat guests at a new hotel in New York City to a never-ending, ever-changing, live performance that funnels the sound and mood of the skies above Manhattan down into the lobby. (more…)
Forschende zeigen, wie das Immunsystem körpereigene von krankheitserregenden Molekülen unterscheidet
Ein Team um die Freiburger Biologen Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schamel und Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber hat in einem Experiment die Dauer der Wechselwirkung eines Proteins mit T-Zellen, weißen Blutkörperchen, kontrolliert und damit gezeigt, wie das Immunsystem krankheitserregende von körpereigenen Molekülen unterscheidet. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler haben die Ergebnisse in der Fachzeitschrift eLife veröffentlicht. (more…)
UD research could aid in prevention of joint injuries from infancy to adulthood
Whether you’re pitching a baseball, playing a violin, or typing at your desk, your shoulder helps you get the job done. This joint is a complex machine, and in order to protect shoulders from injury, scientists want to develop a better understanding of how the most delicate parts of these joints work. (more…)
UCLA psychologists’ experiments demonstrate severe limitations of ‘deep learning’ machines
How smart is the form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning computer networks, and how closely do these machines mimic the human brain? They have improved greatly in recent years, but still have a long way to go, a team of UCLA cognitive psychologists reports in the journal PLOS Computational Biology. (more…)
Ein internationales Forscher-Team unter Beteiligung von Prof. Christoph Spötl vom Institut für Geologie der Uni Innsbruck konnte einen bisher unbekannten Mechanismus in der Bildung des weit verbreiteten Minerals Aragonit identifizieren. Ein in einer Tiroler Höhle entdecktes nanokristallines Calciumkarbonat gibt Einblicke in die Entstehung von Aragonit. (more…)
Web designers and graphic artists use Instagram stories to promote their design work, show the other side of their portfolio, reach out to their clients, and sell their services. Statistics show that 400 million people use the stories feature daily and 80 percent of Instagram’s one billion visitors follow any one business. It means that users are spending more of their time on the photo-sharing site. (more…)
A recent study finds that the more a company’s earnings diverge from its non-financial resources, the less likely it is to issue a forecast of its annual earnings. For companies that issue a forecast, the larger the disconnect between a company’s earnings and its key non-financial measures, the more the company overestimates its actual performance. (more…)
