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Looking ahead to Penn men’s basketball’s most highly anticipated season matchups
A road trip down south and a showdown at the Wells Fargo Center are among the matches in store for the Quakers. By Antonio Meloni 1 hour ago Now-junior forward/center Nick Spinoso dunks on Princeton to end the first half of the Ivy Madness semifinal on March 11. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil The Penn men’s basketball…
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It all starts with a spark! Manchester consults on major 10year cultural strategy
The Council has begun a major conversation with the people of Manchester to gather feedback about the plan to ensure culture is at the heart of the city over the next decade. The It all starts with a spark consultation is reaching out to local people along with creative, arts and cultural organisations to help…
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Building open-source AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) drives innovation across society, economies and science. We argue for the importance of building AI technology according to open-source principles to foster accessibility, collaboration, responsibility and interoperability. The computer science community has a long tradition of embracing open-source principles. However, companies increasingly restrict access to AI innovations. An example is OpenAI, which…
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A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors
Abstract Understanding the composition and function of the vaginal microbiome is crucial for reproductive and overall health. Here we established the Isala citizen-science project to analyse the vaginal microbiomes of 3,345 women in Belgium (18–98 years) through self-sampling, 16S amplicon sequencing and extensive questionnaires. The overall vaginal microbiome composition was strongly tied to age, childbirth and…
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Psychedelic science and Indigenous shamanism: an urgent dialogue
The global expansion of the use of ayahuasca and other Indigenous medicines — alongside the rise of psychedelic therapies both covertly and overtly — is rooted in contact with Indigenous cultures and peoples. The surfacing of new ways of using forest medicines in urban areas has awakened diverse interests in the scientific community and the…
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The Isala project’s empowered new insights into the vaginal microbiome and women’s health
Empowering women through citizen science, from using self-collected vaginal samples to participant input on research questions, we decoded nuances in the composition of the vaginal microbiota — thereby linking female health and lifestyle to vaginal microbiota diversity. We crafted a unique dataset that should inspire new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities. This is a preview of…
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Venus’s atmospheric nitrogen explained by ancient plate tectonics
Abstract Venus is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. Despite broad similarities to the Earth in mass and size, Venus has no evidence of plate tectonics recorded on its young surface, and Venus’s atmosphere is strikingly different. Numerical experiments of long-term planetary evolution have sought to understand Venus’s thermal–tectonic history with indeterminate results. However,…
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Newsletter 2023-10-26
FEATURED Nepal’s tiger conservation gets tech boost with AI-powered deer tracking by Abhaya Raj Joshi — October 23, 2023 – Endangered tigers in Nepal heavily rely on spotted deer as their primary prey, making their conservation crucial.– Researchers in Nepal are using vertical cameras and AI technology to track and profile individual spotted deer (Axis axis), similar to…
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A EUROPA DE LÁ – Música e Cultura do Leste Europeu em episódios semanais.
Ouça o programa completo: Apesar do esporte ter se originado no século 19 na Inglaterra, portanto na Europa de Cá, campeões dos países da Europa de Lá tem se destacado, pelo menos, desde a década de 1970. Nomes como, o romeno Ilie Nastase, os tchecos Ivan Lendl e a lendária Martina Navratilova, nos anos 1980…
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High Expectations Await South Florida Women’s Basketball
Story Links Tampa, Fla. Oct. 26, 2023 – Each season with South Florida women’s basketball, new players arrive and graduating players depart. Only one thing stays the same. The expectations. “I like expectations,” head coach Jose Fernandez said. “We’re expected to be good. We’re expected to recruit at a national and international level. We’re expected to be a…