Source: Science Daily Artificial intelligence is now designing custom proteins in seconds—a process that once took years—paving the way for cures to diseases like cancer and antibiotic-resistant infections. Scientists have...
Source: BBC News - Europe The silence is shattered by a guttural scream. A group of people scrabble on the ground, sifting through the soil. One of them holds up a watch they have uncovered; another, a sandal. The scene on stage at...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Climate change is silently depleting nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their...
Source: Science China has taken a commanding lead in the exploding field of artificial intelligence research, despite U.S. restrictions on exporting key computing chips to its rival, finds a new report. The analysis, released yesterday,...
Source: Science New Zealand's moa—a massive flightless bird whose females weighed up to 250 kilograms and could reach foliage more than 3 meters off the ground—is the latest target for the de-extinction ambitions of...
Source: CBS News - U.S. News The rise of AI is making it harder for recent college graduates to get a foothold on the corporate ladder. Job listings for the kind of entry-level corporate roles traditionally available to young grads have...
Source: Google News - Health A large study has found that adults prescribed gabapentin six or more times for chronic low back pain face higher risks of dementia (29%) and mild cognitive impairment (85%) within 10 years. The risks were...
Source: BBC News - Business Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts made by its chatbot, Grok, after users shared how it made positive references to Hitler....
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Scientists have mined millions of electronic health records and uncovered four distinct "roadways" that funnel people toward Alzheimer's, ranging from mental-health struggles to vascular...
Source: Science Daily - Top News Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt "phase transition"...
Source: United Press International - Health News An unknown party has used artificial intelligence to impersonate U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and contact at least five government and foreign officials—including three...
Source: United Press International - Health News Heat-related deaths in Europe's latest heat wave were three times higher than they would have been without the warming of the planet caused by climate change, British scientists said...
Source: Science For decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with a seemingly basic question about the human brain: does it make new neurons in adulthood? This process, called neurogenesis, has been documented in adult rodents, but...
Source: CBS News - U.S. News At the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., stands a 46-inch-tall model of the Statue of Liberty, whose origin story may surprise you. "When this idea began, it was really about liberty; it wasn't...
Source: CBS News - World News Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom. Although uncommon, there have been previous cases of same-sex penguin couples...
Source: Science Daily - Top Health Dementia poses a major health challenge with no safe, affordable treatments to slow its progression. The results of a 12-month clinical suggest, however, that a widely used cough medicine stabilized...
Source: Science Daily Smarter people don't just crunch numbers better—they actually see the future more clearly. Examining thousands of over-50s, researchers found the brightest minds made life-expectancy forecasts more than twice...
Source: Science Daily - Top Society In Japan, Shinrin Yoku—or "forest bathing"—has been found to lower blood pressure and stress levels. Now, a study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology suggests that virtual...
Source: Science By training a large language model on a vast dataset of human behavior, researchers say they have built an artificial intelligence system that mimics human thought. In a paper published on July 2 in Nature, they report...
Source: APA Press Releases Like a cat leaving a bird on a doorstep, orcas sometimes share their prey with humans, according to research published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. In the study, researchers from Canada, New...
People who treat hearing loss with hearing aids or cochlear implants regain rich conversations, escape isolation, and may even protect their brains and lifespans—proof that better hearing translates into fuller living.
Anger isn’t just a fleeting emotion—it plays a deeper role in women’s mental and physical health during midlife. A groundbreaking study tracking over 500 women aged 35 to 55 reveals that anger traits like outbursts and hostility tend to...
Locked-down Hungarians who gained or lost pets saw almost no lasting shift in mood or loneliness, and new dog owners actually felt less calm and satisfied over time—hinting that the storied “pet effect” may be more myth than...
Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in mice — key traits seen in autism. Researchers mapped how this genetic tweak throws off the brain's delicate...
Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, researchers from Waseda University have...
Parental warmth and affection in early childhood can have life-long physical and mental health benefits for children, and new research points to an important underlying process: children's sense of social safety.
A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found that young children engaged in low...
The way people express emotions while helping others can influence whether their assistance is welcomed, resented, or reciprocated, according to new research.
A team of researchers has identified distinct mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Drawing parallels with human psychology, the study provides compelling evidence that wild chimpanzee infants,...
Providing hearing aids and advice on their use may preserve social connections that often wane as we age, a new study shows. Its authors say that this approach could help ease the loneliness epidemic that older Americans face.
How relatedness-to-nature is linked to well-being is determined by district-level socioeconomic status. A new analysis is based on survey results from two major Japanese metropolitan areas.
A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death occurred, and geographical area. Adolescents...
Your optimal amount of sleep may depend on where you live, new research has found. An analysis of sleep data and health outcomes for nearly 5,000 people in 20 countries revealed that the hours of sleep required for good health varies...
Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods -- areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, and lower access to community resources -- are at risk of developing depression, and new research may help to explain why.
Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional development -- yielding similar results to...
Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an anthropologist challenges the idea that dance and...
Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired by the infrastructure of the part of...
Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new perspective for the reinterpretation of...
Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have the potential to be friends -- guided as much by smell as any other sense, research on friendship formation finds.
Affectionate mothering in childhood may have a lasting impact on important personality traits, potentially influencing life outcomes such as educational achievement, economic success, and health and well-being, according to new research....
Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the limbic system) plays an important role in...
Shifting cultural perceptions of beauty could drive 'lip dysmorphia', so psychologists tested the response of 32 people to altered images of lips to see how they responded. The results were surprising.
Using organoids to model early development, researchers used an emerging microscopy technology to see that new neurons struggled to reach their developmental destination.
Researchers find that stem cells in the developing brain of modern humans take longer to divide and make fewer errors when distributing their chromosomes to their daughter cells, compared to those of Neanderthals.