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Tech Xplore / AI-powered robots offer new hope to German factories

A blue-eyed humanoid robot carefully opens a box and places a tool inside as a crowd of visitors watch the demonstration of "physical AI" skills at a major industrial trade fair in Germany.

16 hours ago
Tech Xplore / He helped build AI. Now he is sounding the alarm about what comes next for everyone

Artificial Intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton insisted Tuesday on the need to strictly regulate the technology, warning that it remained unclear if humanity could co-exist with super intelligent AI.

15 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Why electroconvulsive therapy remains contested: Families report memory loss, worse quality of life and limited benefits

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which involves passing electricity through the brain under general anesthesia to cause a seizure, usually between six and 12 times, is used to varying degrees around the world for patients ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Approximately half a million post-9/11 U.S. veterans have high blood pressure

Approximately half a million post-9/11 U.S. veterans who served in the military have had high blood pressure, and among them, about half were undiagnosed and one quarter were untreated, according to a new study published ...

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / UK agrees ban on cigarette sales for people born after 2008

Both chambers of Britain's parliament have approved a bill that would ban children aged 17 and under from buying cigarettes during their lifetime.

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Study finds prostate cancer overdiagnosis rises sharply with age

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that the likelihood of prostate cancer overdiagnosis—the detection of a cancer that would never have been diagnosed during a patient's lifetime but for PSA screening—is ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Kratom use is surging in the US, with life-changing consequences, study reveals

Kratom is a plant with psychoactive properties that, when taken at high doses, can produce effects similar to opioids. A new study published in Addiction has found that kratom use—measured as kratom exposures reported to ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / How do generative AI tools reshape the software engineering workforce?

New research in Contemporary Economic Policy reveals that generative artificial intelligence tools like GitHub Copilot may lead to more, not fewer, jobs in the software engineering workforce.

18 hours ago
Tech Xplore / North Korean hackers suspected of $300 mn crypto heist

A notorious North Korean hacking group is likely behind the theft of nearly $300 million in cryptocurrency over the weekend, an affected party has said, in the biggest known crypto heist this year.

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Do drugs that similarly combat a disease have differing effects on quality of life?

A study published in Rheumatology & Autoimmunity challenges the assumption that achieving clinical remission in rheumatoid arthritis is sufficient, showing that patient-reported outcomes vary significantly by drug class even ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Does stress during pregnancy affect offspring's metabolic health?

Physical activity during pregnancy enhances the metabolic health of offspring, but new research in mice indicates that prenatal stress blunts these benefits, at least in male offspring. The findings are published in The FASEB ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Which 'money type' are you? New research maps financial habits of young Australians

Under 35, navigating the cost-of-living and trying to get ahead? New research from Southern Cross University, QUT and Griffith University challenges the idea that financial literacy alone addresses this problem. Instead, ...

22 hours ago