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Tech Xplore / AI might be making women sound bad at work
When prompts to draft work emails and job applications contain language commonly used by women, AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, offer less sophisticated responses than they do to requests for office correspondence containing ...
Medical Xpress / Existing cancer drug may protect the heart during certain chemotherapy treatments
The chemotherapy agent doxorubicin is used successfully to treat a range of cancers but can, as a side effect, damage the heart muscle. Researchers at the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University have now identified ...
Tech Xplore / When stubbornness becomes a security problem: How AI agents can manipulate others
Imagine a neighbor who persistently claims you make noise at night. Others initially disagree, but the neighbor keeps trying to convince them. Their success depends not only on their stubbornness but also on how well connected ...
Medical Xpress / Freeze or flee: Rats show distinct fear strategies when danger is anticipated
A haunting song comes on the radio. A stranger on a bus has the same voice as an intimidating bully from your past. Whatever the trigger, it brings back something you'd rather forget as the past takes over, blurring the present.
Phys.org / 'Rusty treasure' find revealed as Europe's largest assemblage of prehistoric iron bars
Analysis of a "rusty treasure" excavated during industrial gravel extraction at Deinham, Austria, reveals it is the largest mass find of prehistoric iron bars in Europe, pointing to iron production and trade during the Iron ...
Phys.org / Venus ate its moon: How Earth's 'twin' could have swallowed a rocky satellite
Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a size, mass and structure similar to Earth's, doesn't have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows that our hungry twin likely swallowed it.
Medical Xpress / White matter 'bridge' bundles link brain hierarchy levels to broader mental functions
To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on communication between different regions. This communication also takes place via white matter, tissue ...
Phys.org / Parents of children with special educational needs face 'lonely and uncertain journey' accessing childcare
Families of babies and toddlers with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) face complex and fragmented support systems when trying to find suitable child care, often at a considerable emotional cost.
Phys.org / The monsters that weren't: Dinosaur and tusked-beast claims in San rock art unravel
For decades, an idea has grown in paleontology that, long before scientists began digging up and reconstructing dinosaur bones, the Indigenous San and Basotho in southern Africa noticed them too, incorporating them into songs, ...
Phys.org / Exploring the brain and behavior of children who struggle with math
Some children have a condition that causes them to persistently struggle with math problem-solving (developmental dyscalculia), yet behavioral and mechanistic details about this condition are lacking.
Medical Xpress / Researchers test green tea extract in search of preventative treatments for Alzheimer's disease
Three University of Waterloo students are conducting research in Dr. Zoya Leonenko's lab, searching for answers to Alzheimer's disease at the nanoscale. Charlotte Baur (fourth-year biological and medical physics), Hugh Hossfeld ...
Medical Xpress / Early retinal dopamine imbalance appears across two inherited eye disease models
A new study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) reports changes in the dopamine system of the retina during inherited retinal degeneration. Inherited retinal degenerations form a diverse group of genetic ...