Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released the Web of Science™ Research Assistant. The new generative AI-powered tool helps researchers find key papers faster, handle complex research tasks and visualize connections. The chat interface combined with the Web of Science knowledge graph allows researchers to get more out of their interactions with 120 years of trusted publication and citation data in the Web of Science Core Collection™. Continue reading
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Akamai Research: Web Attacks Targeting Applications and APIs Up by 49% in the Last Year
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet (SOTI) report that shows how growth in demand for applications and APIs has transformed them into lucrative targets for threat actors. In Digital Fortresses Under Siege: Threats to Modern Application Architectures, Akamai notes that it observed more than 26 billion web attacks against applications and APIs in June 2024 alone, and that these attacks surged by 49% over the last year. Read more
Kenyan digital IDs: paused again
By Nita Bhalla | East Africa Correspondent
Dec 14, 2023, / Thomson Reuters Foundation/ — A high court in Kenya has halted the rollout of a new national digital identification programme, saying authorities failed to assess the risks from processing citizens’ personal data. Continue reading |
How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy
Leigh Riby, Northumbria University, Newcastle
When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I tidied up. Whenever I hear the song, I’m taken back – the sadness and anger comes flooding back.
Dr. Reed McNeil Izatt, American Chemist, Dies at 97
Reed McNeil Izatt was born October 10, 1926, in Logan, Utah, the son of Alexander Spowart Izatt, Jr. and Marian McNeil Izatt. He died peacefully surrounded by his loving family on October 29, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Continue reading
How a 400 million year old fossil changes our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature
Sandy Hetherington, The University of Edinburgh and Holly-Anne Turner, University College Cork
If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of a pineapple or the scales of a pinecone, then you have unknowingly witnessed brilliant examples of mathematical patterns in nature.
Kingdom Code is a scientific community
May 31, 2023 /Lifestyle/ — Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It is a process of discovery that involves making observations, formulating hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses through experiments.
Science can be seen as a miracle because it allows us to understand the world around us in a way that was not possible before. It has given us the ability to cure diseases, develop new technologies, and explore the universe. Continue reading
CAA Professor Wang Dongling Exhibition “Ink. Space. Time.” inspired by Prof. Stephen Hawking Opens at the University of Cambridge
The exhibition Ink. Space. Time. by Wang Dongling, a world-renowned calligrapher and professor at the China Academy of Art, is held at the University of Cambridge from May 25th to August 27th. The exhibition presents the artist’s monumental contemporary Chinese calligraphy work inspired by Prof. Stephen Hawking. Continue reading
MRI scans and AI technology really could read what we’re thinking. The implications are terrifying
Joshua Krook, University of Southampton
For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI imagery into text in an effort to understand what someone is thinking.
A professor is going to live in an underwater hotel for 100 days – here’s what it might do to his body
Bradley Elliott, University of Westminster
As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples’ lists. But one US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri, a former US navy diver and expert in biomedical engineering has been living in a 55 square meter space 30 feet below the surface of the Florida Keys since March 1, and plans to stay for 100 days. If he manages this, he will break a record for most time spent in a habitat beneath the surface of the ocean.