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Tech Xplore / Anthropic's 'anonymous' interviews cracked with an LLM

In December, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic unveiled its newest tool, Interviewer, used in its initial implementation "to help understand people's perspectives on AI," according to a press release. As part ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Security
Phys.org / When heat flows backwards: A neat solution for hydrodynamic heat transport

When we think about heat traveling through a material, we typically picture diffusive transport, a process that transfers heat from high-temperature to low-temperature as particles and molecules bump into each other, losing ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Fragile X study uncovers brainwave biomarker bridging humans and mice

Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a noninvasive, objective readout of treatment ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / World-first toolkit puts autistic lens on suicide prevention

Researchers from La Trobe University have launched a world-leading toolkit for health care professionals to better identify and support Autistic adults at risk of suicide.

Feb 13, 2026 in Autism spectrum disorders
Phys.org / Researchers identify key genes controlling rice tiller angle

Rice tiller angle is an important trait affecting population structure, light utilization, planting density, and yield potential. Although several genes affecting tiller angle have been reported, the upstream regulatory networks ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Tiny Enceladus exercises giant electromagnetic influence at Saturn

A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream behind the moon in Saturn's ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Consuming 2–3 cups of coffee daily associated with lower dementia risk, better cognitive function

A new prospective cohort study by investigators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard analyzed 131,821 participants from the Nurses' Health Study ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Health
Phys.org / Non-alcoholic wine: A booming business searching for quality

Bertrand Degat, vineyard manager for French zero-alcohol wine producer French Bloom, winces visibly when recalling some of the criticism and snobbery he has encountered from his contemporaries.

Feb 12, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Turning down the heat: Researcher identifies better way to remove heat from AI data centers

A University of Houston professor has taken on the global challenge of reducing the staggering amount of heat generated in artificial intelligence data centers. Hadi Ghasemi, J. Willard Gibbs Distinguished Professor of Mechanical ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / From fins to fingers: How nature 'redeployed' ancient genes to shape limbs

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a message on our mobile phone, ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Ultrafast nanolasers mimic how the brain imagines unseen parts of the world

A new study has demonstrated how networks of spiking nanolasers could emulate a key principle of brain function: to imagine things that we cannot directly perceive by sampling from internal models of the world. The study, ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Hardware
Medical Xpress / Lower kidney function linked to higher Alzheimer's blood biomarkers, review finds

People with lower kidney function may have higher levels of several blood markers often used in research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the ...