Public-private partnerships (PPPs) address AI bias by combining ethical guidelines with technological auditing tools. Governments set accountability frameworks, and companies...
Washington, United States - A US scientist who won the 2024 Nobel physics prize for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence...
Thanks to the explosive growth of the private satellite industry, the volume of imagery is greater and turnaround time faster...Thanks to the explosive growth of the private satellite industry, the volume of imagery is greater and turnaround time faster compared to prior conflicts
A growing army of open-source intelligence analysts offer near real time assessments of battleground developments
UN chief Antonio Guterres blasted world powers for a "criminal" abdication of leadership after the release Monday of an extensive..."Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone -- now. Many ecosystems are at the point of no return -- now," he said
Guterres said coal and fossil fuels are "choking humanity" and called for G20 economies to follow up on their commitments to stop funding coal abroad by ending its use at home
The IPCC report will include a crucial 40-page summary for policymakers, expected to show that devastating scale of climate change...The UN report on climate change will show that global warming already threatens billions of people and crucial ecosystems
Climate change affects entire planet, but its impacts are often the hardest on the poorest and most vulnerable
- In the stores and buses of Iraq masks are rare even as Covid-19 spreads widely, vaccines are viewed with suspicion...
"More than 95 percent of those sick with Covid-19 in intensive care are unvaccinated," said Ali Abdel Hussein Kazem, assistant director of the facility
Since January, Iraq's 40 million people have been confronted with a fourth coronavirus wave but -- unlike other countries -- the government has not imposed any restrictions
The failure of countries to crack down on the marketing of breast milk substitutes means far too many children are...The $55-billion formula milk industry is said to systematically deploy aggressive marketing strategies
It is said to spend up to $5 billion a year to sway the decisions of parents on how to feed their infants
- The CDC carried out a study involving 379 babies aged up to six months, who were hospitalized in 20 pediatric...
Babies born to mothers vaccinated during pregnancy were less likely to be hospitalized with severe Covid
A baby who died because of Covid during the research was born to a mother who was not vaccinated
- The European Union’s REACH inventory has covered only 150,000 out of 350,000 different substances and only a third of those...
There are an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment
Since 2020 plastic production has increased to 367 million tones but less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic is currently recycled
The UAE and Israel are inviting universities and research institutes in both countries to submit joint research proposals based on...Successful proposals will be selected by a joint UAE-Israel committee, which will choose one project to be funded.
The selected research project will receive $200,000 of funding from the UAE Space Agency and Israel Space Agency.
- The UAE has launched the "building future talents" to build 10,000 UAE public school female students’ skills in the fields...
The initiative is based on introducing an interactive smart application that includes more than 450 activities on 21st century skills
The smart application presents three innovative reward categories for students participating in the initiative, based on the points they accumulate for every step they complete
In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralyzed. In 2020, he walked...The implant sends electrical pulses to his muscles, mimicking the action of the brain, and could one day help people with severe spinal injuries stand, walk and exercise
The idea of using electrical pulses to address paralysis stemmed from technology used to regulate pain, and the researchers said they see scope for further applications
