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Medicine
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Medicine
New compounds target Alzheimer's protein
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Medicine
What Makes Us Aware?
Scientists search for answers to why our brains turn signals into subjective experience.
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Medicine
Does Our Brain Create Consciousness?
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Medicine
Gut signals may help shape food memories
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Medicine
Brown Tree Snakes' Genetic Secrets Revealed
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Medicine
Bees' Brain Jobs Make Sense When You Know How They're Done
Researchers found that specific genes control the brain circuits responsible for a bee's job performance inside the colony.
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Medicine
Can machines spot fake faces in photos?
A new AI framework helps detect deepfakes by combining images and sound patterns.
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Medicine
New Research Aims to Tame Unreliable AI Assistants in Science
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Astronomy
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Astronomy
New Battery Covers Outperform Previous Designs by a Factor of δ^d
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Astronomy
A Monster Black Hole Disrupts Galaxy Life
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Astronomy
jupiter and saturn's moon systems took different paths to formation
scientists suggest the planets' magnetic fields played a key role in shaping their unique lunar companions.
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Astronomy
Mars Orbiter Captures Comet in Space
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Astronomy
How Collisions Shape Low-mass Planets' Sizes
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Astronomy
Scientists Discover Faint Rings in Venus's Atmosphere
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Astronomy
New Battery Materials Could Make Electric Cars Go Farther, Faster
Two-dimensional materials with a special crystal structure may be the key to making lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries more efficient.
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Astronomy
nasa selects private companies for new lunar missions
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Chemistry
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Chemistry
ferns helped spark massive wildfires during ancient extinction event
The discovery challenges our understanding of how fires contributed to the end-Triassic mass extinction.
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Chemistry
New Method Helps Predict Materials Properties More Accurately
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Science
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Science
Scientists Revisit Black Hole Thermodynamics for a More Dynamic Universe
A new framework could apply thermodynamic laws to real, changing black holes.
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Science
New Framework Helps Reversing Logic's Energy Wastage Problem
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Science
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Science
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Technology
New Scalable Model Approach Could Speed Up Language and Vision Tasks
A more efficient framework for training Large Language Models could help improve performance in multimodal applications by reusing existing parameters across multiple branches.
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Medicine
New compounds target Alzheimer's protein
Two Vanderbilt researchers have created compounds that selectively inhibit or activate a key protein linked to Alzheimer's disease.
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Technology
New Algorithm Finds Best Arm in Multi-Armed Bandit Experiment
A team of researchers has developed a more efficient way to identify the best performing arm in experiments with multiple options.
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Astronomy
New Battery Covers Outperform Previous Designs by a Factor of δ^d
A cheaper, sturdier battery is within reach thanks to a new optimization technique for covering boxes that define the star discrepancy.
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Medicine
What Makes Us Aware?
Scientists search for answers to why our brains turn signals into subjective experience.
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Medicine
Does Our Brain Create Consciousness?
Scientists are still searching for the underlying reason why our brain's activity feels like subjective experience.
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Medicine
Gut signals may help shape food memories
New research suggests that eating nutrient-rich foods can boost brain activity linked to memory formation through the vagus nerve.
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Astronomy
A Monster Black Hole Disrupts Galaxy Life
Astronomers have spotted a massive black hole in a distant galaxy that's defying its usual location near the center.
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jupiter and saturn's moon systems took different paths to formation
scientists suggest the planets' magnetic fields played a key role in shaping their unique lunar companions.
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Brown Tree Snakes' Genetic Secrets Revealed
A new study finds that brown tree snakes have a greater genetic diversity than thought, which may help them adapt to their environments.
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Mars Orbiter Captures Comet in Space
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Earth Science
Ancient Ape fossil found in Egyptian desert
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Medicine
Bees' Brain Jobs Make Sense When You Know How They're Done
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Chemistry
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Astronomy
How Collisions Shape Low-mass Planets' Sizes
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Physics
Disorder makes superconducting magnets behave like random materials
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Can machines spot fake faces in photos?
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Astronomy
Scientists Discover Faint Rings in Venus's Atmosphere
Researchers have found faint, concentric rings in the polarized light reflected by Venus, which could be caused by density variations in its upper atmosphere.
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Astronomy
New Battery Materials Could Make Electric Cars Go Farther, Faster
Two-dimensional materials with a special crystal structure may be the key to making lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries more efficient.
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New Graph Theory Helps Understand How Visibility Works for Shapes in Space
A team of researchers has introduced a new way to visualize and analyze the visibility of shapes in space using corner rectangle visibility graphs, which can help solve problems in fields like computer graphics and robotics.
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nasa selects private companies for new lunar missions
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Science
Scientists Revisit Black Hole Thermodynamics for a More Dynamic Universe
A new framework could apply thermodynamic laws to real, changing black holes.
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Archaeology
New math discovery links ancient groups to everyday geometry
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New Research Aims to Tame Unreliable AI Assistants in Science
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New Framework Helps Reversing Logic's Energy Wastage Problem
Scientists develop method to evaluate reversible logic systems and find potential fix for a major limitation.
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