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Medical Xpress / The bigger the reward, the faster we learn, researchers find
Scientists long assumed that learning speed depends primarily on our experience—how many times we try and succeed—not the size of the reward. We become better at poker because we keep playing and winning, regardless of the ...
Tech Xplore / AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won a prestigious prize
A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving the use of AI for a creative work, after allegations that artificial intelligence was used to write a short story.
Phys.org / Piezoelectric effect in diamond membranes challenges century-old scientific dogma
A research team in China has reported a significant piezoelectric effect in ultrathin and ultra-flexible polycrystalline diamond membranes. This pioneering discovery challenges a century-long scientific dogma that diamonds ...
Medical Xpress / Overloaded brain cleanup cells may mark severe multiple sclerosis progression
Researcher Daan van der Vliet, together with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Leiden University, and Utrecht University, has discovered an important mechanism that may be linked to severe progression ...
Medical Xpress / Ebola risk now at highest level in DR Congo, says WHO
The risk from the deadly Ebola outbreak has been raised to the highest level for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Friday, as the toll continued to rise.
Phys.org / A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment—a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its de-extinction mission.
Tech Xplore / SIGN/e: Writing music with moving shapes and colors
How can electronic music best be scored, music that's made not from staves, clefs and notes on the page but by physical gestures like turning a dial on a console or sweeping a hand across a synthesizer? And if that music ...
Phys.org / Do you know how cynical your friends are?
New research from Michigan State University finds that people often project their own levels of cynicism—the belief that people are only interested in themselves and aren't sincere—onto their friends and consistently underestimate ...
Phys.org / AI will not take your job, it can transform it—but only if you trust it, says researcher
The rise of generative AI has sparked widespread concern about job security and the future of human work. In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, Finland, Zhe Zhu reveals that when employees trust the system ...
Phys.org / Climate catch-22: Cleaning up air pollution could speed key Atlantic current decline
It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that cleaning up air pollution could contribute to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This is the ocean current system that acts ...
Medical Xpress / EU regulator approves pill form of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy weight loss drug
Novo Nordisk has obtained approval for the pill form of its popular Wegovy anti-obesity drug in the European Union, the bloc's medicines regulator said on Friday.
Phys.org / Cell movement in the embryo: Zebrafish study shows that without keratin, nothing moves
Hair, nails, and horns, all made up of keratin, are some of the hardest and most resilient structures in animals. Inside zebrafish cells, keratin plays a distinct role, giving them the strength they need to move together ...
