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Tech Xplore / Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn

"Feral" gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned.

Dec 22, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Medical Xpress / Signature neural patterns may help predict recovery from traumatic brain injury

After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately evaluating prognosis is challenging in patients on life-sustaining therapy.

Dec 23, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Deepest gas hydrate cold seep ever discovered in the Arctic at 3,640 m depth

A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet. The discovery was made during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep–EXTREME24 expedition and reveals a previously unknown ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Smile and the world will trust you: How mimicry shapes first impressions

How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we perceive those people as more attractive ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Mental health conditions linked to higher risk of unintentional injury

People with mental health conditions face a significantly higher risk of physical injuries, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Dec 22, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Iron-snatching compounds found to be effective against parasitic flatworm

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking parasite growth, a RIKEN researcher has found. This finding, published in the journal Tropical Medicine ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Key phospholipid points to potential treatment for vascular dementia

A possible new treatment for impaired brain blood flow and related dementias is on the horizon. Research by scientists at the University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine provides novel insights into the ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Protein MCL1 links cancer cell survival and energy metabolism

A study by the Mildred Scheel Early Career Center group led by Dr. Mohamed Elgendy at the TUD Faculty of Medicine provides fundamental insights into cancer biology. Published in Nature Communications, the study shows for ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Research uncovers the telltale tail of black hole collisions

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But after the waves, there comes a second reverberation—a murmur that physicists have theorized but never ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Fishing fleet tracking can reveal shifts in marine ecosystems

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have already leveraged the vast troves of geolocation data from vessel-tracking systems to pinpoint where whales and other large marine species are endangered by ship ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Cells reveal 'survival of the fittest' through ribosome competition

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan have discovered that ribosomes actually compete with one another, and those that perform poorly ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Clearing the brain of aging cells could aid epilepsy and reduce seizures

Temporal lobe epilepsy, which results in recurring seizures and cognitive dysfunction, is associated with premature aging of brain cells.