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Robot mine-hunters will replace Royal Navy sailors to detect and destroy suspect devices at sea in £184million programme with France Ben Wallace announced scheme at Franco-British Council Defence Conference Boats will be controlled from ‘mothership’ while towed sonar locates the devices Underwater vehicle will stop a weapon from exploding once it has been located Defence … Read more
Lord Bethell said today he is ‘extremely hopeful’ sniffer dogs can be used to help detect Covid-19 in the UK A health minister has today revealed he is ‘extremely hopeful’ sniffer dogs will eventually be used to help detect Covid-19 in the UK. Lord Bethell praised an ‘extremely exciting’ trial by researchers at London School … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) can detect loneliness with 94 per cent accuracy from a person’s speech, a new scientific paper reports. Researchers in the US used several AI tools, including IBM Watson, to analyse transcripts of older adults interviewed about feelings of loneliness. By analysing words, phrases, and gaps of silence during the interviews, the AI … Read more
Apple has unveiled a new version of the Apple Watch that is capable of reading the wearer’s blood oxygen levels via sensors on their wrist. The new feature works by measuring the color of blood flowing through the body to determine levels of oxygen in just 15 seconds, according to Apple. Blood oxygen levels are … Read more
Blood test can detect signs of psychotic disorders years BEFORE they start by recognising ‘protein patterns’ linked to conditions like schizophrenia, study claims Researchers in Dublin looked at 133 people at risk of developing the conditions Used machine learning to analyse hundreds of proteins in their blood samples Identified 10 key proteins linked to inflammation … Read more
Beirut blast rescuers ‘detect a heartbeat’ under rubble sparking hopes of finding a survivor a month after the explosion Sniffer dog belonging to the Chilean rescue team first detected something A pulsing signal was detected on Thursday from under the rubble of a building The team used audio detection equipment and detected what could be … Read more
NASA speculates there are hundreds of rogue planets hiding all across the galaxy and may actually outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars. These free-floating orbs travel around space unattached to a larger star and an orbital telescope set to launch in 2025 aims to uncover their existence. According to researchers, the $4 billion Nancy … Read more
Is this why COVID-19 patients lose their sense of smell? Nose cells that help us detect odors are key entryway for coronavirus, new study finds Researchers studied nose samples and trachea samples for ACE2, the receptor the coronavirus uses to enter and infect cells Cells in the olfactory neuroepithelium, where odor-sensing neurons are located, had up … Read more
Major League Baseball teams are looking into introducing camera technology to ballparks that could detect whether or not fans are wearing masks in the stands. The software could also flag attendees who are wearing them improperly, like leaving their nose uncovered or dangling them around their neck. Several teams are in talks with Airspace Systems … Read more
Trained sniffer dogs can detect coronavirus in human swab samples with 94 per cent success rate, study shows Researchers from Germany trained army dogs to sniff out infected samples Canines are known to be able to smell signs of various diseases and even cancer Dogs could potentially be used alongside laboratory tests to help stop … Read more