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High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than one billion people worldwide and is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke. For decades, researchers have observed that premenopausal women are less likely to develop high blood pressure than men or postmenopausal women. Researchers have known for years that estrogen is the deciding factor, but exactly how it offers this protection has remained unclear.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici funding to 39 adventurous, talented and pioneering researchers, including five from VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC/affiliated VU. The Vici grant enables researchers to develop an innovative line of research and further expand a research group over the next five years.

Whether people follow a general trend when choosing a partner or consciously decide against it has a noticeable impact on the diversity of phenotypes to choose from. This is shown by a new study by the University of Würzburg. Why are there often many different types of males in an animal group? According to the theory of evolution, only the "best" should have prevailed over time.

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity is at play. Behind many great melodies, researchers found something surprisingly powerful: symmetry.

NeurekaNUM és el primer mètode desenvolupat en castellà i català amb evidència científica per a la detecció d'aquest trastorn i la intervenció precoç. Health Dyscalculia, characterized by deficits in number sense and calculation skills, affects approximately 5-7% of the population and often persists into adulthood.

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what they have learned to make predictions or to create new content. The quality of those outputs depends not only on the details of a model's inner workings but also, crucially, on the information that is fed into the model.

Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin reveal the mathematics behind mesmerizing patterns / New study links the beauty of tiling patterns to the structure and complexity of mathematical research In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern.

The coiled structure of the umbilical cord - the vital link between a baby and its mother during pregnancy - plays an important role in helping to keep babies healthy in the womb, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. Working with colleagues at Manchester St Mary's Hospital and the University of Malaysia , the researchers used mathematical modelling to understand how the cord's unique twisted shape affects the way oxygen, nutrients and heat are exchanged before birth.

A new study reveals that the UK's gender pay gap is larger than official estimates because the data used calculate it is not weighted properly to account for jobs in small, young, private sector organisations. Researchers at UCL, Bayes Business School, the University of the West of England and the University of Stirling reviewed the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is used to calculate the UK gender pay gap.

Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work together to build complex life forms. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ) , a team of British and German scientists revealed the structure of the extracellular matrix in Volvox carteri, a type of green algae that is often used to study how multicellular organisms evolved from single-celled ancestors.

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed mechanical models that can predict how effectively the different layers of a deep neural network transform data. Their results improve our understanding of these complex systems and suggest better strategies for training neural networks. Deep neural networks are at the heart of artificial intelligence, ranging from pattern recognition to large language and reasoning models like ChatGPT.

ISTA scientists formalize how amorphous solids learn nontrivial behaviors Can we understand and predict how complex systems learn? Modeling learning in a theoretical framework in disordered solids, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) make surprising findings reminiscent of a Star Trek philosophy.

New research has cast doubt on the long-held theory that our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with its largest neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, in 4.5 billion years-time. Scientists used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescopes to simulate how the Milky Way, Andromeda and their most massive satellite galaxies could evolve over the next 10 billion years.

Single-cell analysis of over 120,000 cells reveals how mitochondrial DNA mutations accumulate with age and may affect ageing and neurodegeneration. New research published in Nature Communications into hidden mutations in mitochondrial DNA - the blueprints for the 'powerhouse of the cell' - has uncovered how high mutational levels coincide with later life and link to ageing markers.

Lyon's research stands out in the new post-quantum era. Two algorithms designed by Damien Stehlé are among the 3 standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2024.

New miniature laboratories are ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) doesn't make mistakes. They provide a controlled test environment where algorithms and AI models can be checked before being put to work under real-life conditions. The aim is for AI to work reliably. Anyone who develops an AI solution sometimes goes on a journey into the unknown.

Neat lanes are the norm at road crossings - until people start veering off at critical angles, then chaos ensues. Zebra crossings generally showcase the best in pedestrian behaviour, with people naturally forming orderly lanes as they cross the road, smoothly passing those coming from the opposite direction without any bumps or scrapes.

Until now, physics has differentiated between fermions and bosons, but now there is evidence of a third type of particle At first glance, our world appears to be enormously complex. However, according to the laws of particle physics, it is strictly organised. According to this, there are only two classes of particles, the matter particles and the force particles.

Until now, physics has distinguished between fermions and bosons, but now there are indications of a third type of particle At first glance, our world appears to be enormously complex. However, according to the laws of particle physics, it is strictly ordered. According to this, there are only two classes of particles, the matter particles and the force particles.

Researchers at Radboud University have developed a new method to calculate the reliability of the power grid. This new method, based on Graph Neural Networks, is not only a thousand times faster but also more accurate than current methods. The results of the new method have been published in the journal Applied Energy.