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Medical Xpress / Virtual vs. in-person visits for new neurology patients show no impact on future care, finds study

For people who see a neurology clinician for the first time, a new study has found that being seen virtually vs. in person made no difference in how soon they needed more care. The work is published in Neurology. For the ...

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Medical Xpress / Study finds treating peanuts with cold plasma could make them less allergenic

Researchers at McGill University have found that briefly treating peanuts with cold plasma, an ionically charged gas that triggers chemical changes, reduces their potential to cause allergic reactions. The researchers say ...

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Medical Xpress / Study explores the genetic basis of an encephalopathy associated with epilepsy and autism

SYNGAP1 encephalopathy is a rare genetic disorder for which there is no treatment. It causes epilepsy, intellectual disability, psychomotor delay and, frequently, autism. It arises from mutations in the SYNGAP1 gene, which ...

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Tech Xplore / New twist on generative AI is quietly reshaping who wins when uncertainty hits hardest

Generative AI is best known for creating images and text. Now, it is helping industries make better planning decisions. Georgia Tech researchers have created a new AI model for decision-focused learning (DFL), called Diffusion-DFL. ...

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Medical Xpress / A glimmer of hope for people living with chronic fatigue syndrome

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), long known as chronic fatigue syndrome, is now recognized as a complex, multi-system disease. However, it remains a medical enigma whose underlying causes are poorly understood, leaving those ...

9 hours ago
Phys.org / Global push for reuse stalls as fragmented policies hold back progress of tackling plastic pollution

Reuse systems, as a model to reduce plastic pollution, are beginning to emerge across the world but remain constrained by fragmented policies, weak financial incentives, and gaps in infrastructure, according to a trio of ...

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Medical Xpress / Millions of people face life-altering barriers to their medical records, banks and other services

In an increasingly digital world, millions of disabled people are being systematically excluded from critical services every day, from their medical records to bank accounts to emergency response systems. These services are ...

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Phys.org / Which types of civilizations collapse and which can endure?

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to understand why and how civilizations collapse. They've found that symptoms like a growing wealth gap and ...

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Tech Xplore / The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout

US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally, who sums up his own energy policy as "drill, baby, drill." Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels ...

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Phys.org / In age of AI, art's real power no longer lives in image alone but in who chooses what survives

Every year on 21 April, World Creativity and Innovation Day invites us to celebrate human ingenuity. Traditionally, that meant celebrating creativity through art, science, and new ideas. Today, it also means asking a more ...

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Phys.org / Research shows AI can catch financial errors before they cost millions

What if auditors could predict when errors are more likely to occur in financial reporting? Instead of simply improving techniques for detecting errors, they could focus on how to stop them from happening.

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Phys.org / Lessons from Finland: Researcher reveals gaps in special education math instruction

Students with special needs are often missing out on critical areas of math instruction—especially data processing, statistics and probability—raising concerns about their readiness for real-world problem-solving. A new study ...

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