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Successfully losing weight and maintaining your weight loss? This is most achievable when you have confidence in your own abilities and a social environment that doesn't make it too difficult.

A new study demonstrates how the digital clinical decision support system ALMANACH (Algorithm for the Management of Childhood Illness) is transforming healthcare for children under five in Somalia.

A new study has shown that horses have been infected with H5N1 - avian flu - in Asia and that infections have been occurring in horses undetected.

Scalable Platform -Opens the Door for Faster, More Energy-Efficient, and Cost-Effective Memory Solutions in Embedded Systems, Such as IoT, Mobile Devices, and Edge Computing ' SAN FRANCISCO - Dec.

By granting loans to companies and private individuals, Swiss banks indirectly influence the greenhouse gas emissions of the companies and properties they finance.

Whether it's Santa Claus, Father Christmas, or St Nicholas that he goes by, at this time of year children everywhere are excited for his arrival.

The use of gardens for relaxation or treatment can have positive effects on patients' health. However, these opportunities are often not utilised to their full potential.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb.

CEE faculty have developed a testbed to make AI-enabled digital twins more accessible for students Technological advancements of the past few years have brought new norms to civil engineering and academia.

A majority of people in Germany consider the influence of science on politics to be too small.

A chessboard knight can't reach a given square twice as fast as the king. Christian Táfula Santos has proved it, using the famous Fibonacci sequence.

A University of Queensland-led study shows greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy.

In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots. Not little metal humanoid or even bio-mimicking robots; think instead of tiny bubble-like spheres. Such robots would have a long and challenging list of requirements. For example, they would need to survive in bodily fluids, such as stomach acids, and be controllable, so they could be directed precisely to targeted sites.

Watersheds on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard will be among the areas most affected by underground saltwater intrusion by the year 2100 due to sea level rise and changes in groundwater supplies, according to a NASA-DOD study.

A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders' motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.

A major UK patient trial of a new biomarker testing protocol for sepsis, led by University of Manchester researchers, has shown it is possible to safely stop antibiotic treatment earlier than current care.

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Climate change is beginning to make early-season cancellations a regular part of winter sport competitions.

Oxford researchers are to lead and co-lead on two MRC research centres, which are being launched to develop new advanced treatments for currently untreatable diseases.

The results of a clinical tria l'into a new malaria vaccine candidate (RH5.1/Matrix-MTM) show it is well-tolerated and offers effective protection against the blood-stage of the disease - the first inoculation to do so.

Entrepreneurs are increasingly less positive about the business climate in the Netherlands. This is evident from the 'Monitor Ondernemingsklimaat 2024', commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Online training that helps people recognise and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds research by UCL experts.