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July 21, 2024
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July 16, 2024 A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications for improving the diets of isolated people, ...
July 17, 2024 A new collaboration explores the neural substrates of blushing in a MRI ...
July 17, 2024 Researchers report that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, destabilizes a critical network of brain areas involved in introspective thinking. The findings provide a neurobiological explanation for the drug's mind-bending ...
July 17, 2024 Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests -- and both species would likely get healthier in the research process, scientists ...
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July 17, 2024 Snot might not be the first place you'd expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues -- it also lines and helps ...
July 17, 2024 During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces ...
July 16, 2024 For the first time, scientists have found that sleep can be detected by patterns of neuronal activity just milliseconds long, 1000 times shorter than ...
July 9, 2024 Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and ...
July 15, 2024 New results could ultimately help lead to interventions that spark creative thought or aid people who have mental illnesses that disrupt these regions of the ...
July 11, 2024 The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new ...
July 11, 2024 Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the ...
June 13, 2024 A new study has found evidence linking the intake of whole-sized small fish with a reduced risk of all-cause and cancer mortality in Japanese ...
July 2, 2024 In a new paper, researchers and citizen mycologists describe the two new species as Psilocybe ingeli and Psilocybe maluti. The paper also contains information on the traditional use of P. maluti by ...
July 2, 2024 Everyday clothing may soon be able to capture and record body movements according to new ...
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July 19, 2024 A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a ...
July 10, 2024 Researchers discovered that feedback plus cash incentives designed with insights from behavioral science reduces phone use while ...
July 2, 2024 A colder nose and warmer cheeks may be a telltale sign of rising blood pressure. Researchers discovered that temperatures in different face regions are associated with various chronic illnesses, such ...
July 1, 2024 Computer scientists have invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world around them. Inspired by how the human eye works, their innovative camera system mimics the ...
June 28, 2024 A new study has produced supranormal hearing in mice, while also supporting a hypothesis on the cause of hidden hearing loss in ...
June 26, 2024 Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success ...
June 25, 2024 Scientists are helping to develop standards and safety protocols that would allow pharmacies to print drugs onsite at a dosage best for ...
June 25, 2024 Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is ...
June 25, 2024 Researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications ...
June 24, 2024 Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation -- a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to ...
June 20, 2024 Scientists have developed a new, more energy-efficient way for AI algorithms to process data. His model may become the basis for a new generation of AI that learns like we do. Notably, these findings ...
June 13, 2024 Climate change has many widespread and complicated effects on the well-being of people and the planet, and a new study has now added a surprising one to the list. After analyzing the language used in ...
June 12, 2024 Engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown ...
June 12, 2024 Significant progress has been made in the development of a small device, about the size of a vitamin pill, that can be swallowed and passed through the gastrointestinal tract to sample and help ...
June 12, 2024 Engineers have created a patch that combines sensors and bacteria to interact with the ...
June 12, 2024 Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent study, ...
June 12, 2024 Researchers have demonstrated a new method that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and computer simulations to train robotic exoskeletons to autonomously help users save energy while walking, ...
June 11, 2024 Researchers have discovered new variations of an illusion created when we see three rapid flashes in our side vision. Regardless of the position of the second flash, the illusion causes the brain to ...
June 11, 2024 The structure and function of the kidneys is altered by space flight, with galactic radiation causing permanent damage that would jeopardise any mission to Mars, according to a new study led by ...
June 10, 2024 Researchers have developed -- and shared -- a process for creating brain cortical organoids -- essentially miniature artificial brains with functioning neural ...
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- Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer
- Next Platform for Brain-Inspired Computing
- Moving Objects Precisely With Sound
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- Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice
- Ingestible Microbiome Sampling Pill Technology Advances
- To Heal Skin, Scientists Invent Living Bioelectronics
- Towards a New Era in Flexible Piezoelectric Sensors for Both Humans and Robots
- AI-Powered Simulation Training Improves Human Performance in Robotic Exoskeletons
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- Research on the Visual Rabbit Illusion Takes a Leap Forward
- Would Astronauts' Kidneys Survive a Roundtrip to Mars?
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- Scientists Invent 'living Bioelectronics' That Can Sense and Heal Skin
- Picture This: Snapping Photos of Our Food Could Be Good for Us
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- Chicken Feathers to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs and Repair Enzymes
- Public Have No Difficulty Getting to Grips With an Extra Thumb, Study Finds
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- Imperceptible Sensors Made from 'electronic Spider Silk' Can Be Printed Directly on Human Skin
- AI Headphones Let Wearer Listen to a Single Person in a Crowd, by Looking at Them Just Once
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- Psychedelic Drug-Induced Hyperconnectivity in the Brain Helps Clarify Altered Subjective Experiences
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- Eurasian Jays Can Use 'mental Time Travel' Like Humans, Study Finds
- Robots' And Prosthetic Hands' Sense of Touch Could Be as Fast as Humans
- Some Mice May Owe Their Monogamy to a Newly Evolved Type of Cell
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- Study Uses Artificial Intelligence to Show How Personality Influences the Expression of Our Genes
- Universal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts
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- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?
- Secrets of the Naked Mole-Rat: New Study Reveals How Their Unique Metabolism Protects Them from Heart Attacks
- A Decade of Aphantasia Research: What We've Learned About People Who Can't Visualize
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Researchers Show That Introduced Tardigrade Proteins Can Slow Metabolism in Human Cells
- Beethoven's Genes Reveal Low Predisposition for Beat Synchronization
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- New Archive of Ancient Human Brains Challenges Misconceptions of Soft Tissue Preservation
- Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory
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- Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life
- CSI in Space: Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns in Microgravity
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- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Sprinting 'like a Jet' Will Produce Premier League Strikers of Tomorrow, Study Shows
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- AI Outperforms Humans in Standardized Tests of Creative Potential
- Study Identifies Multi-Organ Response to Seven Days Without Food
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Scientists ID Burned Bodies Using Technique Used for Extracting DNA from Woolly Mammoths, Neanderthals
- Radio Waves Can Tune Up Bacteria to Become Life-Saving Medicines
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- Smart Earrings Can Monitor a Person's Temperature
- How Teachers Make Ethical Judgments When Using AI in the Classroom