BARCELONA, Spain, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * Children under three learn new words even when speakers wear masks A study from the UAB show that, from the age of two, children are able to create associations between words and unfamiliar objects, after a brief audiovisual interaction and suggests that infants' optimal attention strategy for acquiring new vocabulary involves following the speaker's gaze and focusing on the object, bu more PR

HOKKAIDO, Japan, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Hokkaido University issued the following news release: * * * Facile method for carboxylic acid activation using inexpensive commercial organic photocatalysts Photoactivated ketones prove to be promising H-atom transfer photocatalysts for activating carboxylic acids and generating new C-C, C-S, and C-Cl bonds. * Carboxylic acids are ubiquitous in bioactive organic molecules and readily available chemical building blocks. Carboxylic acids can be converted i more PR

LONDON, England, July 7 -- Imperial College-London issued the following news: * * * EnAcuity wins grant to bring AI-driven surgical imaging into operating theatres By Ian Mundell An Innovate UK grant will help spinout EnAcuity validate its software on video from operations at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The standard cameras used in keyhole surgery only show surgeons what they would normally see with the naked eye. But add image processing software powered by artificial intelligen more PR

SYDNEY, Australia, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Macquarie University issued the following news release: * * * Drones reveal extreme coral mortality after bleaching New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92 per cent after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, marking one of the highest coral mortality rates ever documented globally. The team assessed the impact of the Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event, declared by the National Oceanic an more PR

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 7 -- The University of Melbourne issued the following news: * * * Melbourne hosts Swiss delegation to accelerate innovation through global partnerships The University of Melbourne has hosted a Swiss delegation of 28 government, research, and industry leaders to explore collaborative opportunities between Australia and Switzerland. University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Emma Johnston hosted the delegation, led by Switzerland's State Secretary for Educatio more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, July 7 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * ARC Linkage project tackles "forever chemicals" Professor Stephen Blanksby will lead an ARC Linkage project, funded by a $402,228 grant, titled Resolving the PFAS exposome through advances in mass spectrometry. QUT Professor Blanksby said per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were "forever chemicals" used in firefighting foams and other products that had caused contaminated land and w more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, July 7 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Project aims to skill low-income parents to help children with digital media Professor Michael Dezuanni has received an $898,788 ARC Linkage grant for the project, Promoting low-income parents' digital media literacies, which will partner with several community organisations. Professor Dezuanni, from QUT's Digital Media Research Centre in the School of Communication and the ARC Centre of E more PR

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, July 7 -- St. Francis Xavier University issued the following news: * * * StFX researchers partner with local brewery to launch health warning labels on alcohol products Dr. Kara Thompson, Research Chair in Substance Use Policy and Prevention at St. Francis Xavier University, and Director of the Victor and Mona Dahdaleh Institute for Innovation in Health, has partnered with Candid Brewing, a community-based craft brewery in Antigonish, NS to pilot new health warning la more PR

HAIFA, Israel, July 7 -- The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * CyanoGems: Photosynthetic Architecture A Technion Project Using Bacteria and 3D-Printed Sand, Featured at Triennale Milano CyanoGems is an interdisciplinary project that integrates bacteria into 3D-printed models made of sand * An interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is currently being showcased at Triennale Milano - a prestigious  more PR

MACAU, China, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Macau issued the following news release: * * * UM research team develops new technology for liver cancer treatment A research team led by Zhao Qi, associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of Macau (UM), in collaboration with Zhu Kangshun, professor at the Guangzhou Medical University, has achieved a significant breakthrough in tumour immunology. They have developed sCAR-T cells, novel CAR-T cells that secr more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * Shepherding atoms on the surface towards a greener future - maximising the usage of precious metals Researchers have demonstrated that by using argon plasma, metal atoms can be dispersed and guided to desired positions. This new strategy ensures that not a single atom goes to waste and maximises the use of rare and precious metals. In a study published in Advanced Science, researcher more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, July 7 -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * Students given opportunity to expand AI skills with summer internship A group of students from less advantaged backgrounds from across the UK are taking part in a new summer internship programme at the University of Nottingham to gain knowledge and skills in Artificial Intelligence. The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is running the Google Deepmind Research Ready Sc more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Queensland issued the following news: * * * Maxing out chemical-free crop protection with dsRNAmax A software package developed and validated at The University of Queensland can tailor safe, effective and chemical-free crop protection using RNA interference (RNAi). The dsRNAmax software designs double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to target pest and pathogen species while excluding off-target species like beneficial insects. The program was d more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: * * * Scientists warn of urgent need to tackle changes impacting river deltas New research from a Southampton scientist has identified the causes of changes affecting river deltas around the world - warning of an urgent need to tackle them through climate adaptation. Deltas are low-lying areas that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body such as an ocean, lake, or another more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: * * * New study reveals what UK patients really want from GPs Britain's patients have revealed what they really want from their GPs - and it's far more than just a quick appointment. A major study has unearthed the top demands people have of their doctors, with the option to choose a GP and making appointments easier to book among most common. The research, by the University of Southampton, als more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Utrecht University issued the following news: * * * Drivers of vulnerability in deltas A comprehensive diagnostic framework towards adaptation in deltas * Deltares, Utrecht University, Oxford University, Wageningen University, TU Delft, University of Southampton and University of East Anglia have jointly developed a new framework that identifies the key drivers of change in deltas worldwide. From Utrecht University, Dr. Gualbert Oude Essink contr more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 7 -- Utrecht University issued the following news: * * * How students transformed research into art and narrative Telling ocean stories * As part of the Dynamical Oceanography course, Climate Physics master's students from IMAU were challenged with an unconventional assignment: to think beyond equations and develop their science communication skills. Their task? To create a product aimed at Physics bachelor students that explains the science behind two recentl more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 7 -- Utrecht University issued the following news: * * * Lizard shampoo in a priest's book: Medieval medical texts in unexpected places Lizard shampoo next to a saints' calendar in a priest's book, and headache remedies among canon law? What are medical recipes doing in these unexpected places? Associate Professor of Medieval History Carine van Rhijn has spent the past few years working with an international team of medievalists to research medieval medical text more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 7 -- Utrecht University issued the following news: * * * Offshore wind farms offer - besides threats - also opportunities for ecosystem restoration Researchers call for spending 1-5 percent of wind farm budget on ecosystem restoration * Substantial growth in the number of offshore wind farms is generally seen as necessary to meet climate goals. But this development also has a potentially large, negative impact on marine ecosystems, which are already under seve more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Utrecht University issued the following news: * * * Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over time steps of a million years or more. Now, for the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determ more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 7 -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release: * * * VUB Researcher Eric Kerckhofs Investigates Whether We Truly Have Free Will Amid the complexity of our decision-making, an opening remains for genuine human agency * Does something like 'free will' really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have debated the issue for decades -- if not centuries. In his recent PhD at the Vrije Universiteit  more PR