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Tech Xplore / Can AI read humans' minds? A pedestrian behavior model is shockingly good at it

In a striking leap toward safer self-driving cars, researchers at Texas A&M University College of Engineering and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system ...

22 hours ago in Automotive
Medical Xpress / Mental health professionals urged to do their own evaluations of AI-based tools

Millions of people already chat about their mental health with large language models (LLMs), the conversational form of artificial intelligence. Some providers have integrated LLM-based mental health care tools into routine ...

19 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion offer by Netflix

Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio along with the ...

20 hours ago in Business
Medical Xpress / How maternal distress affects neurological development in children

The first few years of a child's life are at a stage of great brain plasticity and neurodevelopment, and form the foundation for their future cognitive, social, and emotional skills. This period, extending from fetal stage ...

19 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / 'ULM-Lite' technology uses ultrasound to visualize microvessels in the brain

A research team from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has improved blood vessel observation technology using ultrasound. The team developed "ULM-Lite," which significantly boosts the efficiency ...

19 hours ago in Radiology & Imaging
Phys.org / China outlines future plans in new video, including finding Earth 2.0

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," the video actually details ...

22 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Hormonal fluctuations affect women's immunity, but a lack of rigor in studies still prevents a consensus

Hormonal fluctuations throughout a woman's life are among the factors that most influence the immune system. Like a seesaw, variations in estrogen and progesterone affect cellular levels and alter the immune and inflammatory ...

18 hours ago in Immunology
Phys.org / Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

In early 2025, in an effort to facilitate its deportation goals, the Trump administration entered into hundreds of agreements with local police departments to essentially deputize them to act as federal immigration agents.

20 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / CAR T cell therapy shows promising Phase II trial results in multiple myeloma

The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy anitocabtagene autoleucel (anito-cel) continued to show strong results in treating relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to new trial data from researchers at The ...

Medical Xpress / Gene therapy improves movement in kids with spinal muscular atrophy

A single-dose gene replacement therapy is found to improve movement ability in children over 2 years of age and teenagers with spinal muscular atrophy, according to research published in Nature Medicine. The results of this ...

20 hours ago in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Lowest suicide rate is in December, but some in media still promote holiday-suicide myth

During the year-end holiday season, the suicide rate declines, U.S. health statistics show. The month of December typically has the year's lowest average daily suicide rate. Yet each year at this time, some news publications ...

Medical Xpress / Results show long-lasting benefits of CAR T cell therapy for hard-to-treat lymphoma

New three-year follow-up results from the TRANSCEND FL trial show that patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma can achieve durable, multi-year remission with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, ...