World desk
13 dispatches
I started this week looking at Japan with its depreciating currency and its unwillingness to raise interest-rates. There was confirmation of the latter point yesterday and indeed this…
Delayed and disorderly energy transitions will threaten economic and financial stability whilst also increasing the economic risks from climate change, according to a new study from the University…
Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our…
The proposed optical computing chip enables the high-speed, parallel processing for quantitative trading with unprecedented low latency, accelerating the crucial and demanding step of feature extraction. Credit: H.…
Sometimes at work, it’s not just a case of the Mondays. The level of dissatisfaction employees have with their job can last beyond the start of the week.…
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the USC School of Advanced Computing and the Keck School of Medicine, working alongside experts from the Microsoft AI for Good Lab,…
A Princeton team has reported their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond, three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting, and nearly fifteen…
As evidence continues to pour in showing that climate change’s impacts disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities around the globe, so, too, do stories showing that these communities can also…
AI-powered FAIR² turns lost scientific data into the fuel for tomorrow’s discoveries. Credit: Shutterstock Most scientific data never reach their full potential to drive new discoveries. Out of…
Cancer-diagnosing AI can extract demographic clues from tissue slides, creating hidden bias in medical decisions. Scientists have now shown that this problem can be dramatically reduced with smarter…