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May 28, 2025
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May 27, 2025 — Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's massive storage ...
May 28, 2025 — Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger ...
May 22, 2025 — Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. The ability to engineer shapeshifting proteins opens new avenues for ...
May 27, 2025 — When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important -- but so are less obvious characteristics like feelings of excitement or pleasure and a belief in technology's social ...
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May 27, 2025 — How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more ...
May 23, 2025 — Scientists create a floss pick that samples cortisol within saliva as a marker of stress and quantifies it with a built-in electrode. The system uses a polymer casting technology that can be adapted ...
May 21, 2025 — New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...
May 21, 2025 — With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists have now found a factor that tells cells which ...
May 22, 2025 — Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- including ChatGPT -- to the test using emotional ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers developed a way to extend the shelf life of vegetables by injecting them with melatonin using biodegradable ...
May 21, 2025 — The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...
May 15, 2025 — Agents, chatbots and other tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in everyday life by many. So-called large language model (LLM)-based agents, such as ChatGPT and Llama, ...
May 16, 2025 — Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary ...
May 12, 2025 — Your fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time you're in the water for too long, according to new ...
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May 8, 2025 — New technique for cell or drug delivery, localization of bioelectric materials, and wound healing uses ultrasound to activate printing within the ...
May 8, 2025 — What makes people think an AI system is creative? New research shows that it depends on how much they see of the creative act. The findings have implications for how we research and design creative ...
May 8, 2025 — A recent study marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that can successfully control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells. As a proof-of-concept, the ...
May 7, 2025 — Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new ...
May 6, 2025 — Psychologists suggest our brains and bodies don't just understand music, they physically resonate with it. These discoveries, based on findings in neuroscience, music, and psychology, support ...
May 5, 2025 — Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their ...
May 5, 2025 — Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our ...
May 2, 2025 — Researchers have created a hairlike device for long-term, non-invasive monitoring of the brain's electrical activity. The lightweight and flexible electrode attaches directly to the scalp and ...
May 2, 2025 — The Haenyeo, a group of all-female divers from the Korean island of Jeju, are renowned for their ability to dive in frigid waters without the aid of breathing equipment -- even while pregnant. A ...
May 1, 2025 — While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door ...
May 1, 2025 — A new study has unveiled a groundbreaking framework for rethinking political decision-making -- drawing inspiration from how the human body maintains stability and ...
May 1, 2025 — Many people around the world believe in karma -- that idea that divine justice will punish people who do bad deeds and reward those who good. But that belief plays out differently for oneself versus ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have found that drug effectiveness, alcohol tolerance, and carbohydrate metabolism change with the seasons. Their findings are based on a comprehensive seasonal gene expression map, which ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Researchers have shown they can inexpensively nanomanufacture silk microneedles to precisely fortify crops, monitor plant health, and detect soil ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Scientists have developed a problem-solving architecture modeled on neurobiology that leverages quantum mechanical behavior to guarantee optimal solutions to complex ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling 'drowsy' to 'a complete absence of conscious awareness.' Neuroscientists and ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists have created a new platform called 'Oz' that uses laser light to control up to 1,000 photoreceptors in the eye at once. Using Oz, the researchers showed people images, videos and ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers set out to learn how well the free version of ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Use of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic chemical found in what is known as 'magic mushrooms,' has increased significantly nationwide since 2019, according to a new ...
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- 3D Printing in Vivo Using Sound
- Is AI Truly Creative? Turns out Creativity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- AI-Designed DNA Controls Genes in Healthy Mammalian Cells for First Time
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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Monday, May 5, 2025
- Ancient Andes Society Used Hallucinogens to Strengthen Social Order
- Children as Young as Five Can Navigate a 'tiny Town'
Friday, May 2, 2025
- The Future of Brain Activity Monitoring May Look Like a Strand of Hair
- The All-Female Korean Haenyeo Divers Show Genetic Adaptions to Cold Water Diving
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Artificial Sense of Touch, Improved
- New Research Reveals How Physiology-Inspired Networks Could Improve Political Decision-Making
- Good Karma for Me, Bad Karma for You
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Monday, April 28, 2025
- Advancing AI for Diverse Applications in Manufacturing, Business and Education
- A Neuro-Quantum Leap in Finding Optimal Solutions
Thursday, April 24, 2025
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'digital Twins' In Research
- Do 'optimistic' Versus 'pessimistic' Medical Detection Dogs Perform Differently?
- Scientists Complete Largest Wiring Diagram and Functional Map of the Brain to Date
Monday, April 7, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
- Estrogen and Progesterone Stimulate the Body to Make Opioids
- Western Diet Causes Inflammation, Traditional African Food Protects
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Human Urine, a Valuable Resource as Fertilizer for Sustainable Urban Agriculture, Study Concludes
- First Therapy Chatbot Trial Shows AI Can Provide 'gold-Standard' Care
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Rare Disease Drug Nitisinone Makes Human Blood Deadly to Mosquitoes
- Artificial Intelligence Uses Less Energy by Mimicking the Human Brain
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Novel Memristors to Overcome AI's 'catastrophic Forgetting'
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
- Insomniac Fruit Fly Mutants Show Enhanced Memory Despite Severe Sleep Loss
- Why Don't We Remember Being a Baby? New Study Provides Clues
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Innovative Infant Wearable Uses Artificial Intelligence for at-Home Assessments of Early Motor Development
- A Rubber Hand Alleviates Pain
- Feline Therapy: Study Suggests Cats Could Fill an Assistive Niche
- To the Brain, Esperanto and Klingon Appear the Same as English or Mandarin
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study Reveals Brain's Flexible Foundation from Birth
- RNA Origami: Artificial Cytoskeletons to Build Synthetic Cells
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Paralyzed Man Moves Robotic Arm With His Thoughts
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
- The Pupil as a Window Into the Sleeping Brain
Monday, March 3, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Sometimes, When Competitors Collaborate, Everybody Wins
- The International Space Station Is Overly Sterile; Making It 'dirtier' Could Improve Astronaut Health
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Monday, February 17, 2025
- This Research Is Absolutely Nuts -- For Better Health Care
- Sweet Taste Receptors in the Heart: A New Pathway for Cardiac Regulation
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Biohybrid Hand Gestures With Human Muscles
- Scientists Develop Novel Self-Healing Electronic Skin for Health Monitoring
- Adults Can Learn Absolute Pitch: New Research Challenges Long-Held Musical Belief
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- International Shark Attack File Report: Unprovoked Shark Bites Plummeted in 2024
- 'I Can't Hear You, I'm Too Stressed': Repeated Stress in Mice Reduces Sound Perception
Monday, February 10, 2025
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Friday, January 31, 2025
- Sound Is a Primary Issue in the Lives of Skateboarders, Study Shows
- This Delicate Nanoflower Is Downright Deadly to Bacteria
- The Big Chill: Is Cold-Water Immersion Good for Our Health?
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- New Light-Tuned Chemical Tools Control Processes in Living Cells
- 3D-Printed Brain-Like Environment Promotes Neuron Growth
- Freshwater Alga Could Be the Next Superfood That Feeds the World
- A Hearing Aid for ... Your Nose?
- Scientists Shocked by Durability of Surgery-Sparing Technique
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Scientists 'mimic Real Biological Processes' Using Synthetic Neurons
- New Insights Into the Perception of Coffee Taste -- Genetic Predisposition Plays a Role
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Sharp Look Into Ockham's Razor
- Individual Cells Can Be Connected to Plastic Electrodes
- First Mouse With Two Male Parents to Reach Adulthood
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Imagining the Physics of George R.R. Martin's Fictional Universe
- Camel Milk Udderly Good Alterative to Traditional Dairy
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Why Are Most Companies Failing to Benefit from AI? It's About the People Not the Tech
- Fighting Experience Plays Key Role in Brain Chemical's Control of Male Aggression
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Scientists Identify Neurons in Mice That, Once Activated, Can Change Body's Metabolic Rate, Induce Hibernation-Like State
- Building Sentence Structure May Be Language-Specific
- 'Unprecedented' Level of Control Allows Person Without Use of Limbs to Operate Virtual Quadcopter