Archive for October 2022

Listening to birdsong significantly reduces anxiety and paranoia, according a new German study. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: OCTOBER 16, 2022 15:18 Don’t just watch the birdie – listen to it. Hearing birdsong can not only improve people’s moods but also minimize paranoia, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany.  In the study led…

John Elder Melbourne scientists have developed a screening test for Parkinson’s disease using patients’ voice recordings and an AI algorithm. The software compares the patient’s voice against existing samples of voices of people who have Parkinson’s and those who do not. The algorithm, designed as a smart phone app, can reveal in just 10 seconds…

By RHYS BLAKELY THE TIMES OCTOBER 1, 2022 Hundreds of fake scientific papers from Chinese researchers have been published in British journals, prompting warnings of “industrialised cheating”. The publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, a society founded in London in 1874, has been forced to retract nearly 900 papers so far this year. At least…