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Tech Xplore / 'Manners for machines': How new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet

Australians are among the most anxious in the world about artificial intelligence (AI).

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Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy plus chemo cuts stage three dMMR colon cancer recurrence by 50%

Colon cancer is the third most prevalent form of cancer in the U.S., and its incidence is increasing among younger adults, particularly those younger than 50. While colon cancer screening has helped prevent and detect it ...

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Phys.org / Human brain operates near, but not at, the critical point

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when applied to whole-brain ...

5 hours ago
Phys.org / Scandinavia's largest 'burial mound' may be a monument to catastrophe, not a king

New LiDAR analysis suggests Raknehaugen may have been built in response to a devastating landslide, not to honor a high-status individual. The study by Dr. Lars Gustavsen, published in the European Journal of Archaeology, ...

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Medical Xpress / Feeling unfulfilled could lead to riskier, heavier alcohol use

People who have three basic psychological needs met are more likely to have a healthy relationship with alcohol, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The work is published in the journal Psychology of ...

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Phys.org / Revealing the origin of polarity inversion in polymer semiconductors

A research team led by Prof. Boseok Kang at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered the origin of polarity inversion, a long-standing phenomenon in polymer semiconductors that occurs only in certain materials. The team, in ...

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Phys.org / Lab-based mini-atmosphere reveals how turbulence changes on different scales

With a new lab-based experiment, researchers in the UK and France have recreated the characteristic cascades of energy and angular momentum that underpin key features of Earth's atmosphere. Reporting in Physical Review Letters, ...

7 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Natural competition between brain circuits may boost information processing

Over the past decades, neuroscience studies have painted an increasingly detailed picture of the human brain, its organization and how it supports various functions. To plan and execute desired behaviors in changing circumstances, ...

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Phys.org / Ancient DNA reveals earliest known dogs lived alongside Ice Age humans

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs were widely distributed ...

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Phys.org / AI-driven framework uncovers new carbon structures—one thought to be harder than diamond

Through new improvements to existing AI models, researchers in China have created a framework that can methodically identify useful new forms of solid carbon. With their approach, Zhibin Gao and colleagues at Xi'an Jiaotong ...

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Phys.org / Supercomputer simulations map spliceosome motions in a two-million-atom human cell model

A new study from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden) and AstraZeneca, shows how computational chemistry and supercomputers can help scientists better understand the ...

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Phys.org / New enzyme atlas rewrites decades of biology research

WEHI researchers have led a major global effort to create the first authoritative atlas for a class of enzymes that regulate almost every cellular process in the human body. Published in Cell, the study establishes the first ...

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