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(Un)sustainability in the Swiss fish market

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Research into the sustainability practices and issues with the Swiss fish market and its approach to sustainable aquatic agriculture.

Sustainability of fish as a food is a highly complex issue, especially in a global market with wildly varying measures and priorities in fish production and harvesting. Urs Baumgartner, environmental […]

Shining a spotlight on diabetic retinal detachment

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Professor Miguel A Quiroz-Reyes, MD, investigates the long-term post-operative outcomes in the sight-threatening condition, diabetic macula-off tractional retinal detachment.

Diabetes mellitus affects millions of people globally. Patients are at risk of associated diseases and often encounter problems with their eyesight. Dr Miguel A Quiroz-Reyes, retina specialist at Oftalmologia Integral […]

Bolstering brawn with the brain

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Research into the impact of nervous system adaptations on muscle gain in acute and chronic resistance training

Nervous system and muscle adaptations cause strength gains during resistance training. Nervous system adaptations primarily cause the gains during the first few weeks, while muscle adaptations primarily cause gains over […]

Secret Manhattan Project ciphers finally solved

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Paul Relkin has broken the code of the decades-old Olum ciphers, and in the process developed a novel cryptanalysis method for decrypting transposition ciphers.

While working on the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb, mathematician Paul Olum challenged his colleague, the distinguished theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, to solve his two ciphers – Olum […]

Cameleer: A deductive verification tool for OCaml

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Dr Mário Pereira and collaborators have developed a formal verification software for OCaml-written code, called the Cameleer tool

From social networking to space exploration, software is the mainstay that keeps our world operating. But how do we know that we can trust software? Dr Mário Pereira from the […]

Detecting dental diseases with AI dental image analysis

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Sangyeong Lee researched deep-learning AI for recognising dental diseases from X-ray radiography

Dentists often use panoramic dental radiography, capturing the entire mouth in a single image, to diagnose dental diseases. The manual examination of these complex images is time consuming and laborious. […]

Pulmonary tuberculosis: Biomarker discovery in the quest for new therapies

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Dr Esmeralda Juárez and her team research tuberculosis disease mechanisms through biomarker discoveries.

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) presents a significant health burden worldwide with treatments remaining suboptimal. In the pursuit of new or adjunctive therapies, Esmeralda Juárez and researchers at the Department of Research […]

Knee pain: ‘The hidden lesions’ and novel treatments

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Knee pain and osteoarthritis (knee OA) impact hugely on quality of life. Drawing from clinical experience and research studies, Professor Shaw-Ruey Lyu and colleagues at the School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi […]

Science education, new materialism, natural disaster, and the Anthropocene

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Catherine Milne researches science education in the Anthropocene, an era of environmental unravelling and natural disasters

Science education must adapt to new ways of thinking about how humans interact with the material world. That is the view of Catherine Milne, professor of science education at New […]

Reality, information, and consciousness: The universe as a cosmic quantum computer

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Peter Verheyen explores the idea that the universe is a quantum computer, questioning ideas about consciousness, information and reality

How does the world around us work, and what is real? Such questions are not only central to scientific and philosophical discourse but have been circulating since the dawn […]