Latest news from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore on Newswise en-us Copyright 2025 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/young-children-as-early-as-age-5-are-guided-by-an-inner-moral-code/?sc=rsin /articles/young-children-as-early-as-age-5-are-guided-by-an-inner-moral-code/?sc=rsin Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:00:00 EST The results of an international Italy-Japan-UK collaboration by the Universita Cattolica in Milan captured this ability at its core. For a child, an incorrect action is always wrong and immoral, even if it is made by a robot. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore /articles/energy-hungry-artificial-intelligence-has-an-unsustainable-environmental-impact/?sc=rsin /articles/energy-hungry-artificial-intelligence-has-an-unsustainable-environmental-impact/?sc=rsin Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 EST Energy-hungry Artificial Intelligence 'has an unsustainable impact in terms of CO2 emissions; training large deep learning models (such as GPT and BERT) has a significant environmental impact, in fact training a model such as GPT-3 (175 billion parameters) required 355 GPU-years (the GPU is the type of processor used for AI), costing an estimated $4.6 million in energy alone and consuming around 1300 megawatt-hours (MWh) for training alone, equivalent to the annual consumption of 130 homes in the US. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore /articles/social-prescribing-a-new-way-of-promoting-psycho-physical-well-being-and-healing-through-social-contacts/?sc=rsin /articles/social-prescribing-a-new-way-of-promoting-psycho-physical-well-being-and-healing-through-social-contacts/?sc=rsin Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:00 EST Social Prescribing, a new way of promoting psycho-physical well-being and healing through social contacts. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore /articles/boom-skin-care-one-out-of-two-persons-buys-dedicated-products-men-are-also-protagonists-of-this-new-passion-skin-care-for-1-out-of-5/?sc=rsin /articles/boom-skin-care-one-out-of-two-persons-buys-dedicated-products-men-are-also-protagonists-of-this-new-passion-skin-care-for-1-out-of-5/?sc=rsin Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:00 EST We all felt in love for skin care: about one in two persons use skin care products, out of these 45% use them every day, 35% several times a day and only 7% less than once a week. It is mainly women who use skin care products, over 7 out of 10, and also those who have already undertaken cosmetic surgery, just over 7 out of 10. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore /articles/long-covid-italian-scientists-discovered-the-molecular-fingerprint-of-the-condition-in-children-s-blood/?sc=rsin /articles/long-covid-italian-scientists-discovered-the-molecular-fingerprint-of-the-condition-in-children-s-blood/?sc=rsin Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:00:00 EST A study by the Universita Cattolica, Rome campus - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS and the Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu IRCCS, published in the Nature Group journal 'Pediatric Research', identifies the 'protein signature' of the condition in plasma, a group of pro-inflammatory molecules present at high concentrations in young patients with the condition. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore /articles/alzheimer-s-a-new-strategy-to-prevent-neurodegeneration/?sc=rsin /articles/alzheimer-s-a-new-strategy-to-prevent-neurodegeneration/?sc=rsin Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:00:00 EST A study led by Universita Cattolica at Rome and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS in Rome, published in the prestigious journal PNAS, has revealed an important mechanism underlying Alzheimer and identified new therapeutic targets. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore