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IBM and Blue Prism Deliver Digital Workforce Capabilities

Walgreens adopts intelligent automation solutions to improve customer service

Armonk, N.Y., Austin TX, and London – 13 Dec 2017: As businesses increasingly recognize the opportunity to increase productivity, improve customer experiences and deliver new products and services through intelligent automation, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces to deliver a secure, scalable and easy-to-use Digital Workforce for enterprises worldwide, such as Walgreens. (more…)

Music strikes a chord with great writers

Music is identified as a key influence on great poets and novelists of the past century in a landmark book by Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education). The book, “How Writing Works” is being discussed at the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) conference. (more…)

Wie der Klimawandel Spuren hinterlässt

Biologen der Universität Tübingen werten Langzeitklimastudie aus, um vorherzusagen, wie einzelne Pflanzenarten auf Änderungen von Temperatur und Regenmenge reagieren

Pflanzenforscher der Universität Tübingen haben ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem sich beobachten und vorhersagen lässt, wie einzelne Pflanzenarten auf den Klimawandel reagieren. Dr. Mark Bilton und Professor Katja Tielbörger vom Institut für Evolution und Ökologie werteten die Daten aus einem über 16 Jahre durchgeführten Experiment spanischer Kollegen aus. (more…)

Scientist Haifan Lin: From Mao’s China to Yale’s Stem Cell Center

Scientist’s journey includes moving research toward potential clinical advances

A significant turning point in the life of Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology; professor of genetics and of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences; and founding director of Yale’s Stem Cell Center, may have come when he was just 15. Already a high achiever, as he has been ever since, he completed high school three years younger than his classmates. (more…)

Mixed reality and medicine: Surgery with no surprises

In the original Star Trek TV series, the physician on the USS Enterprise, Bones McCoy, would diagnose his patients with just a few waves of his hand-held “tricorder”. Well, medical science has not progressed that far, at least not yet. (more…)

Our Solar System’s “shocking” origin

Washington, DC— According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova. The shock wave injected material from the exploding star into a neighboring cloud of dust and gas, causing it to collapse in on itself and form the Sun and its surrounding planets. (more…)

Mars is a planet with blue sunrise and sunset

Mars sky is the opposite of EarthBlue sunrise and sunsetRed during the day https://t.co/RjmSZ98bCz — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 28. November 2017

Benefits of Advanced Wood-Burning Stoves Greater Than Thought

A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that advanced wood-burning stoves designed for use in the developing world can reduce air pollution more than anticipated, because gaseous emissions from traditional wood stoves form more particulate matter in the atmosphere than researchers previously thought. (more…)