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More transparency needed about merits of AI

Published
Thursday 13th April, 2023
Categories
Technology

AI developers need to be much more open about how they evaluate the tools they produce, to make sure people understand how effective high-tech artificial intelligence actually is.

Illustration of machine learning and AI concept in form of a woman's face outline with circuit board and binary data flow on blue background.

Nexus home to Northern Cell Metrology Hub

Published
Wednesday 5th April, 2023
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business

Nexus has been unveiled as the home of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub, a new centre of innovation for clinical diagnostics and new medical technology.

Tracey Brabin, West Yorkshire Mayor and Jeanne Rivera, Cell Metrology Team Leader at the launch of the Northern Cell Metrology Hub.

Alerting vulnerable communities to extreme weather

Published
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
Categories
Technology
Environment
Science

Scientists have been awarded £2 million to develop ways of alerting communities in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique to extreme weather.

Forecasters looking at weather maps on a computer screen.

Activity deep in Earth affects the global magnetic field

Published
Thursday 16th March, 2023
Categories
Environment
Science

Compass readings that do not show the direction of true north and interference with the operations of satellites are a few of the problems caused by peculiarities of the Earth’s magnetic field.

Graphic shows the Earth as seen from space. Half of the graphic shows the surfaces of the world - the other half of the graphic  shows the hot processes that happen deep in the Earth's core.

Fintech placements for students as new centre launches in Leeds

Published
Tuesday 28th February, 2023
Categories
Technology
Business & Economy

University of Leeds students will have the opportunity to take up placements in some of the UK’s leading fintech companies, in a fresh announcement confirmed at the launch of a new nationwide centre.

Guests seated in rows listen to speeches at the launch event of CFIT, in the atrium of Nexus

'Remarkable' results in colon cancer trial

Published
Friday 20th January, 2023
Categories
Science
Health

Giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts the risk of the disease coming back, according to the results of a new clinical trial. 

A nurse sitting next to a patient and administering chemotherapy via a tube into the patient's hand