science and technology

President Macron's visit to Dhaka follows a Pacific trip in July to the French overseas territory, as well as a stopover in Sri Lanka, in which he outlined his "Indo-Pacific strategy" aimed at "recommitting" France to the region.

One radiologist supported by AI detected more cases of breast cancer in screening mammography than two radiologists working together, reports the ScreenTrustCAD study from Karolinska Institutet in a paper, titled "Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography: A paired-readers prospective interventional screen positive trial," published in The Lancet Digital Health. The researchers say that AI is now ready to be implemented in breast cancer screening.

One morning in June, barely 5 months after the first dispensary for recreational cannabis opened in New York State, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd spoke via Zoom to an audience of educators and specialists who work with or run programs for children. The session’s organizers, alarmed by how many children in their South Bronx community were now getting their hands on cannabis, had sought Hurd’s expertise on the drug’s effects.

Scientists have fully sequenced the Y chromosome for the first time, uncovering information that could have implications for the study of male infertility and other health problems.

In May, the Senate lit up the AI policy conversation with two dueling artificial intelligence hearings: one on the use of AI in government and the other on AI oversight. Comparing the two, most have acknowledged their contrasts: The Sam Altman-led oversight hearing featured high drama (for the Senate, that is), while the relatively staid AI in Government hearing featured substantive policy proposals.

In the United States and other western countries, a form of esophageal and stomach cancer has risen dramatically over the last five decades. Rates of esophageal adenocarcinoma, or EAC, and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma, or GCA, are both highly fatal.

Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The two new dinosaur species belong to the Abelisauridae, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs that were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere. They lived at the end of the Cretaceous period and show that dinosaurs were diverse in Africa just before their mass extinction by an asteroid 66 million years ago.

On July 25th the European Commission responded to the citizen’s initiative Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics. Their response caused much controversy, in particular from a fear of the consequences of an abrupt ban on animal testing. As far as Proefdiervrij is concerned, these fears are unfounded.

India becomes the fourth country to touch down on the lunar surface and the first one to reach its unexplored South Pole.

Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani says Iran will launch at least two domestically-made satellites into orbit this year, [ending on March 19, 2024].