Over the past few years, artificial intelligence—or AI—has started to revolutionize the world as we know it: some people now ask AI-based chatbots to write essays and summarize documents, others use AI-powered virtual ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Scientists in South Africa are monitoring a new coronavirus variant with an unusually high mutation rate, and whose frequency has gradually increased in recent months, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Experiencing abuse or neglect as a child can cause multiple mental health problems, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
Jan 11, 2023
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Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to Alzheimer's disease and die when that remodeling goes awry, a new study suggests. The work is the first to track the progression of Alzheimer's at the genetic and molecular ...
Jun 29, 2020
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Unlike machines, the behavior of animals and humans almost always has an element of unpredictability. Countless experiments have shown that our responses to the exact same challenge are sometimes faster, sometimes slower, ...
Jun 2, 2020
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Many treatments for COVID-19 focus on the spike protein that the virus uses to bind to human cells. While those treatments work well on the original variant, they may not be as effective on future ones. The Omicron variant, ...
Jan 12, 2022
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For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference. A study appearing April 7 in the journal iScience examined heart rate responses in infants less than one year old during a hug and found that ...
Apr 7, 2020
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A new study from MIT suggests that the dozens of mutations in the spike protein of the omicron variant help it to evade all four of the classes of antibodies that can target the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
Feb 1, 2022
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Buying a second-hand car at a good price feels good. But choosing a delicious-looking doughnut in the supermarket leaves us riddled with doubt. After all, we resolved to eat a healthier diet this year—so wouldn't it be ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that a powerful new potential treatment for the autoimmune disease mucosal pemphigus vulgaris (PV) appeared safe and effective in preclinical ...
Sep 21, 2020
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