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Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams

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Google announced that it will consolidate some of its teams focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) models within the Google DeepMind unit, which was created last year.

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Call for research to boost coconut trees productivity

www.the-star.co.ke

Yawa says no research has been conducted to improve the crop since it was introduced in the country

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Crucial building blocks of life on Earth can more easily form in outer space, says new research

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The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth,…

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‘Research and training needed to sustain and increase quality of Yakshagana performance’

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The Infosys Foundation Yakshagana Development, Training and Research Centre building built at a cost of ₹15.8 crore inaugurated in Udupi

Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life − my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there

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As a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who studies ice grains from Enceladus, '’m interested in whether there is life on this or other icy moons. I also want to understand how scientists like me could detect it.

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Benue Varsity To Collaborate With S’Africa On Research, Innovation

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The Benue State University (BSU) and the Walter Sisulu University (WSU), Eastern Cape South Africa are to collaborate in the area of innovation and research development. Vice Chancellor of BSU, Prof. Joe Tor Iorapuu, disclosed this in a…

You shouldn't bank on an inheritance windfall: Many people discover they will get nothing, research discovers

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Some 3.5million people have made financial plans to spend expected inherited family wealth, only to be disappointed, new research reveals.

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Research agency offers insight on global awareness of BRICS alliance

businessday.ng

By Ngozi Okpalakunne Market Trend International, a research agency, has conducted a global survey in order to offer a comprehensive

BlueHalo wins $24 million Air Force contract for research and analysis of satellite vulnerabilities

spacenews.com

AFRL's Satellite Assessment Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, evaluates the effects of laser radiation on space vehicles

What Causes Hoarding? New Research Suggests It Can Start in Childhood

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Throwing out your kids stuff might make hoarding worse.

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Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

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Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms

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Hempfield Mini-THON raises more than $61K for childhood cancer research

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Hempfield Area students raised more than $61,500 for the Four Diamonds nonprofit through their 2023-2024 Mini-THON fundraisers that culminated in a 12-hour event on April 5.

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Smile... you could get a discount! Sellers give you cheap deals if you're cheerful, research finds

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Smiling customers are able to barter for price reductions of almost ten per cent, while angry or disgusted buyers had to pay the full prices, according to research.

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Teens eating a junk food-filled diet may be damaging their brains, research suggests

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NEW YORK, April 21 — No more fast food, sweets and other ultra-processed foods for teenagers! An American study conducte...

Saturday, Apr 20

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Nvidia will provide the software for Japan's ABCI-Q, a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for drug research and other uses (Riho Nagao/Nikkei Asia)

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Nvidia will provide the software for Japan's ABCI-Q, a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for drug research and other uses — U.S. chip designer to provide software for nation's quantum computing initiative —…

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USask and Canadian Light Source assisting new research into groundwater pollution

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University of Guelph scientists have teamed up with Saskatchewan researchers to explore how a chemical called 'sulfolane' may be creating groundwater risks.

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Netherlands may scrap 60mph motorway speed limit as research shows it makes virtually no difference to emissions

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The motorway speed limit used to be 130kmh (81mph) until 2019 when it was cut to 100kmh (62mph) after Dutch courts ordered the government to cut air pollution to meet EU net zero targets.

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Five things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels)

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It's true that our 16th-century ancestors drank much more than Irish people do today. But why they did so and what their beer was like are questions shrouded in myth. The authors were part of a team who set out to find some answers.

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Saudi Arabia: 451 flights for cloud seeding and research carried in 2023

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Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Regional Cloud Seeding Program has announced that it has carried out as many as 451 flights for cloud seeding and research with a total of 1,424 flight hours during the year 2023. This included 415…

Co Down woman backs new research after being diagnosed with cancer twice

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"Had I known about the BRCA gene when I was first diagnosed, I could have had a double mastectomy and ovaries removed at the same time"