Science X Dialog
Science X Dialog is where researchers can share news and information about their own published journal articles.
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Dialog / AI can now learn to manipulate human behavior
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviors and use them to influence human decision-making.
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Dialog / IBM RXN: New AI model boosts mapping of chemical reactions
Just like an astronomer investigates outer space, a chemist explores chemical space—a theoretical territory with all possible known (and unknown) chemical compounds. Researchers estimate chemical space to contain up to ...
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Dialog / Fluid dynamics of COVID-19 airborne infection suggests urgent data for a scientific design of social distancing
Infection by COVID-19 is largely caused by airborne transmission, a phenomenon that has rapidly attracted a great deal of attention from the scientific community. The SARS-CoV-2 virus hosted in different tracts of the respiratory ...
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Dialog / Societal transformation: A role for second-order cognitive science?
Humanity faces profound, even existential threats from climate change and biodiversity loss and struggles to make progress on a host of other unsolved social and environmental problems. Increasingly, scientists, global policy ...
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Dialog / Distant 'baby' black holes seem to be misbehaving—and experts are perplexed
Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of "baby" and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with the galaxies' light bouncing around in unexpected ways.
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Dialog / Physicists rewired a simulated human brain: How its rhythms changed and what it means for people with epilepsy
Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon in nature. Examples include fireflies flashing simultaneously, crickets chirping in unison and bird swarms synchronizing their wing flaps. On the day of London's Millennium Bridge ...
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Dialog / Proteins from junk DNA
The complexity of living organisms has increased over the last 500 million years, and yet the number of known genes has remained constant. It is also a conundrum that only 1.5% of the human genome is made up of known genes ...
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Dialog / More than half a billion years ago, the first shell-crushing predators ground up their prey between their legs
Shell-crushing predation was already in full swing half a billion years ago, as our new research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals.
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Dialog / A new 3-D koala genome will aid efforts to defend the threatened species
Koalas are unique in the animal kingdom, living on a eucalyptus diet that would kill other creatures and drinking so little their name comes from the Dharug word gula, meaning "no water." Today, many koala populations across ...
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Dialog / Burnt ancient nutshells reveal the story of climate change at Kakadu—now drier than ever before
Archaeological research provides a long-term perspective on how humans survived various environmental conditions over tens of thousands of years.
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Dialog / Color-sensitive inkjet-printed pixelated artificial retina based on semiconducting polymers
Around 300 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), involving deterioration of retinal photoreceptor cells, are the leading causes of partial or ...
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Dialog / Dire wolves went extinct 13,000 years ago but thanks to new genetic analysis their true story can now be told
Thanks to the hit television series Game of Thrones, the dire wolf has gained a near-mythical status. But it was a real animal that roamed the Americas for at least 250,000 years, until it became extinct towards the end of ...