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Tech Xplore / Microsoft strikes deal for Mistral's AI computing power

Microsoft on Tuesday sought to reassure European users with a "multi-billion-dollar" deal to rent AI infrastructure from Mistral, hoisting the French developer into the lucrative business of renting compute capacity.

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Medical Xpress / Method to standardize research into brain stimulation could help speed development of treatments

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that influences activity in specific areas of the brain—is widely used by researchers to better understand how the brain functions and is also ...

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Phys.org / Researcher shows how AI can personalize learning for homeschooling families

More than 3.4 million American children, or about 6% of the school-age population, now learn at home, and that group has grown at nearly three times the pre-pandemic rate. Homeschooling is also increasingly popular in countries ...

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Medical Xpress / Biological sex linked to protein changes in lung adenocarcinoma and other cancers

Biological sex factors into cancer in ways you might not expect. In lung cancer, a form called squamous cell carcinoma disproportionately affects male patients, while adenocarcinoma occurs more frequently in female patients. ...

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Medical Xpress / Semaglutide sustains lower calorie intake for more than a year, study shows

People taking semaglutide for weight loss continued to consume significantly fewer calories after 60 weeks on the medication, helping explain how the medication supports both initial weight loss and long-term weight maintenance. ...

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Medical Xpress / Doctor-patient common language associated with better long-term survival for minority populations

Sharing a common language is key to improved long-term health for Francophone and diverse linguistic communities, according to researchers from the University of Ottawa and the University of Manitoba.

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Medical Xpress / Heart risk tools predict certain cancers about as well as they predict heart disease

Risk calculators that doctors use to estimate a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke work about as well for predicting certain cancers, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. The tools, ...

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Phys.org / Family courts must do more to hear children's voices, study says

Children involved in private family law proceedings in England can experience serious harm to their mental and physical health because their voices are too often ignored or dismissed, according to new research led by the ...

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Medical Xpress / Childhood exposure to air pollution linked to higher metabolic syndrome risk

Although the effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases are well established, its effects on cardiometabolic health are often overlooked. This population-based European cohort study led by the Barcelona Institute for ...

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Tech Xplore / Green hydrogen with PEC electrolyzers: New insights into transport processes

One method of storing solar energy is to use PEC electrolyzers to produce hydrogen. However, scaling up this technology remains challenging. Now, a team at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels has used 2D fluorescence imaging ...

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Phys.org / Electyrolyzer experiment designated ready-to-fly by NASA

A Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio experiment has passed a critical NASA review, designating it ready for parabolic flight testing. The two institutions will evaluate the performance of ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Droughts can boost inclusive institutions, social unity

Droughts have an immediate negative impact on agricultural production, but they can also trigger institutional and cultural transformations that help make societies more resilient to environmental crises. This is the main ...

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