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Tech Xplore / Domain-informed AI could help electricity grids plan for rising demand and changing climate
Artificial intelligence has become a major new pressure on the electricity grid at the same time as it is emerging as one of the most promising tools for making that grid resilient, according to a new publication by United ...
Medical Xpress / CRISPR gene-editing therapy safely and continuously lowers cholesterol and triglycerides, first-in-human trial shows
A Cleveland Clinic first-in-human clinical trial has shown that a one-time infusion of a gene-editing therapy using CRISPR-Cas9 was effective and safe in reducing LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglycerides in people with medication-resistant ...
Phys.org / Investments promising social or environmental benefits need tougher anti‑greenwashing rules
Investment funds increasingly promise to deliver social or environmental benefits alongside financial returns. Regulators rightly ask whether these "impact investment" claims are accurate.
Tech Xplore / A new kind of AI that does its thinking cheaply without words
There may soon be a new kind of artificial intelligence in town, one that uses a novel approach to thinking that could save massive amounts of computing power and money.
Phys.org / Iguanodon shinbone growth may be first evidence of an infected skin ulcer in a dinosaur
Fossilized bones can reveal a wealth of details about animals, including their size, appearance, what they ate and any injuries they may have suffered. In a paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers ...
Phys.org / A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage
Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage to the solar system's smallest and closest-to-the-sun planet.
Phys.org / Tree species diversity protects forests from climate extremes, study finds
New research has found that tree species diversity can play a crucial role in protecting forests from the growing threat of extreme climate events. The study analyzed data from 88,116 separate forest plots across the United ...
Tech Xplore / Why adding AI agents to a system sometimes reduces its performance
Computer scientists worldwide have been developing a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Some of these systems rely on an individual AI agent, while others consist of multiple interacting agents that exchange ...
Phys.org / One quarter of Australian kids are 'developmentally vulnerable' when they start school
We know the first five years are a crucial time in a child's life. Early experiences, such as family relationships or exposure to trauma, shape brain architecture, which lays the foundation for children's learning, behavior ...
Phys.org / Treat education as infrastructure during wartime, say researchers in Ukraine
War destroys laboratories and instruments. It also severs the human networks through which science reproduces itself. It disrupts mentorship, collaborations and informal ties that turn students into researchers.
Phys.org / Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
The case against social media has become so well rehearsed that most people can easily merge it into ordinary conversation: It makes people lonely. It sorts them into camps. It hands them a room full of people who already ...
Medical Xpress / Historic smallpox records digitized to support future outbreak research
NDORMS DPhil student Rabia Khan has led a collaborative project to digitize historic records from the world's last naturally occurring smallpox outbreaks, creating an open dataset for future epidemiological and disease modeling ...