A number of measures has been proposed by actors of the health care sector in the UK to improve air quality especially in cities. Image source: ...
Startup will Ausbrüche von Epidemien mit künstlicher Intelligenz vorhersehen
Das Startup AIME (Artificial Intelligence and Medical Epidemiology) entwickelt ein System, das mit dem Input von Gesundheitsdaten, Wetterdaten, ...
Desert winds reduce air pollution in China
A group of researchers around Yang Yang from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Washington State, US, studied simulated wind and dust patterns ...
Forschungsprojekt will Hülsenfrüchte in Europa popularisieren
Das europaweite Forschungsprojekt TRUE (TRansition paths to sUstainable legume-based systems in Europe), ein Zusammenschluss aus Pflanzenbau- ...
Wearable device helps visually impaired navigate surroundings
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new accessibility tool for visually impaired people in form of a wearable device ...
Distribution of trees and greenspaces impact public health
Researchers in California have created a new tool to correlate trees’ locations with medical data from Kaiser Permanente (the largest HMO in the United ...
Startup diagnoses Dengue and Zika with one drop of blood
Danish-Taiwanese startup BluSense Diagnostics has developed a method with which it can detect both Dengue fever and the Zika virus very quickly. With just ...
Philadelphia to offer free sunscreen to city dwellers
A new initiative in Philadelphia has been launched that will build more and more sunscreen dispensers around the city, free to use by anyone. Installation ...
Human blood stem cells grown in lab for the first time
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have managed to grow the type of stem cells that produce blood in their laboratory for the first ...
Beijing takes old and polluting cars off its streets
In an effort to combat congestion and smog in Beijing, the local government has removed 180.000 old and polluting vehicles from the roads of the city in ...
