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Medical Xpress / 'Proust's madeleine' finally explained by neuroscience

A team of CNRS scientists has pinpointed the brain mechanisms behind the famous "Proust's madeleine" phenomenon, in which smells bring back vivid, emotional memories.

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Tech Xplore / Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix 'co'—by an expert in linguistics

AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as copilot, coworker, cocreator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily coexist with us humans. Their inference is clear: People should ...

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Medical Xpress / NPTN gene changes linked to rare developmental disorders in eight children

For some families, the reason their child is not developing as expected remains unclear for a long time. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) in Magdeburg have now identified a genetic cause of a previously ...

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Phys.org / New research shows the Golgi complex is involved in DNA repair control

Our DNA is under constant threat. Chemicals, radiation and the everyday errors of cell division all damage it, and if left unrepaired, this can lead to diseases such as cancer. Cells invest heavily in finding and fixing these ...

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Phys.org / Ancient turtle hunting could inform modern conservation throughout southern Caribbean

Despite the promise of rebounding green sea turtle numbers, many sea turtle populations continue to flounder under the pressures of changing climates, overfishing and urbanization.

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Phys.org / Mapping endangered habitats with the help of citizen scientists and satellite data

As biodiversity declines and many of the UK's most important habitats become smaller and more fragmented, conservation organizations need accurate, up-to-date maps to protect wildlife and restore nature. However, creating ...

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Tech Xplore / How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

OpenAI's AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face—a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI ...

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Medical Xpress / Three clinical grade skincare creams you really shouldn't buy online

Your social media feed is full of people talking about the "holy grail" of skincare.

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Medical Xpress / Singapore group will develop 'most promising' Ebola vaccine

A Singapore-based organization announced Thursday it will develop an Ebola vaccine dubbed the "most promising" to fight against a deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Phys.org / An atom-holography microscope for direct visualization of 3D atomic arrangements in nanoscale regions

A collaborative research group led by Hiroshi Daimon, a specially appointed research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed an "atom-holography microscope" capable ...

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Phys.org / First dogs in the UK treated with new bee and wasp venom immunotherapy

The University of Glasgow's Small Animal Hospital is the first in the UK to use a treatment for dogs suffering from serious allergic reactions to bee and wasp stings. The treatment, Hymenoptera Venom Immunotherapy (VIT), ...

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Phys.org / Tread softly: A new 'light touch' way to detect kauri dieback

Kauri dieback is one of the most serious threats facing Aotearoa New Zealand's kauri forests. The disease is caused by a soil-dwelling microbe, Phytophthora agathidicida, which infects kauri roots and eventually kills the ...

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