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Medical Xpress / Over-reliance on AI risks eroding new and future doctors' critical thinking and reinforcing existing bias, warn experts
Over-reliance on generative AI risks eroding new and future doctors' critical thinking skills, while potentially reinforcing existing data bias and inequity, warns an editorial published in the online journal BMJ Evidence ...
Phys.org / How Hollywood horror's 'killer wolf' trope is sabotaging rewilding efforts
Wolves are returning across Europe—but not to the UK and Ireland, where public support is lukewarm at best. Ecologists point out their benefits, while farmers worry about their livestock. But another influence on public ...
Phys.org / Researchers uncover synchronous ecological collapse across Paleotethys Ocean during Permian–Triassic transition
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), in collaboration with international partners, has completed a high-resolution biomarker analysis of the Zal ...
Medical Xpress / Sugar starts corroding your teeth within seconds. Here's how to protect your pearly whites from decay
Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. But what happens in your mouth during those first minutes and hours after eating those ...
Medical Xpress / Omomyc enhances PARP inhibitor effects and overcomes resistance in breast cancer models
Findings from a preclinical study demonstrate that Omomyc—the only direct MYC inhibitor to have successfully completed a phase I clinical trial—causes DNA damage in cancer cells which is synergistically enhanced in combination ...
Phys.org / Rising heat leads to minimal losses for California processing of tomatoes
California's $1 billion tomato processing industry is highly efficient and likely will be able to withstand higher temperatures and traffic congestion with minimal postharvest losses, according to research conducted at the ...
Phys.org / Cats adjust their communication strategy by meowing more when greeting men
As many cat owners will testify, their pets are often mysterious creatures, independent, cunning and sometimes aloof. And now it appears that when it comes to communication, they might be playing favorites. A new study published ...
Tech Xplore / Approximate domain unlearning: Enabling safer and more controllable vision-language models
Vision-language model (VLM) is a core technology of modern artificial intelligence (AI), and it can be used to represent different forms of expression or learning, such as photographs, illustrations, and sketches.
Medical Xpress / Why undisturbed sleep is important to brain injury recovery
A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and increased fatigue.
Phys.org / Urban blue spaces quietly support food, income and community
The rivers, lakes and ponds in cities—urban blue spaces also known as UBS—are increasingly recognized for their ecological and social roles. However, their contributions to sustainable food systems remain understudied.
Medical Xpress / Who will develop type 1 diabetes? New calculator offers quick, low-cost answers
Predicting who will develop type 1 diabetes is now cheaper and more accessible, thanks to a new tool based on research conducted at the University of Exeter which could one day help determine who to target with recently approved ...
Medical Xpress / Comparing DNA language models to guide optimal AI selection for genomics
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have performed a comprehensive evaluation of five artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on genomic sequences, known as DNA foundation language models. ...
