Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect behavioural signs of anxiety with more than 90 per cent accuracy, and suggest that AI could have future applications for addressing mental health and wellbeing. Their research is published in the journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing. “In the two years since the onset of COVID-19, and one climate disaster after […]

Despite Earth and Venus being a similar size and distance from the sun, only one has oceans that teem with life, while the other is utterly inhospitable – shrouded by clouds of sulfuric acid with a surface hot enough to melt lead. To understand why the two planets are so different, and whether Venus was […]

The first experimental images of a bromine atom’s σ-hole have been unveiled, mapping the peculiar charge distribution that is the basis for halogen bonding. Although it seems counterintuitive that two negatively charged atoms attract rather than repel each other, this is the case when it comes to halogen bonding. Halogen atoms form attractive intermolecular bonds […]

The first universal definition of ‘open science’ has been agreed by 193 countries under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) umbrella. They have also agreed to abide by common standards, and adopted a roadmap to guide future developments. The agreed definition makes reproducibility, transparency, sharing and collaboration core principles of science. Among […]