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Tech Xplore / VR used to help understand how people respond when self-driving taxis go wrong
What would you do if you were in a self-driving taxi and another passenger fell seriously ill? What if a fire broke out, or the vehicle stopped in the wrong place? What would you need to manage the situation with no driver ...
Medical Xpress / ASA: White matter hyperintensity burden tied to future decline in older adults' driving ability
White matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden predicts functional decline in real-world driving among older adults, according to a study scheduled to be presented at the annual American Stroke Association International Stroke ...
Phys.org / Saturday Citations: Understanding procrastination; delicious baby sauropods; a study on musical 'pleasure chills'
This week, researchers identified the role of the brain's protein clean-up system in dementia. Fecal transplants show promising benefits in treating multiple cancer types. And biologists found that saltwater crocodiles traveled ...
Phys.org / Some companies claim they can 'resurrect' species. Does that make people more comfortable with extinction?
Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years.
Tech Xplore / Facial recognition technology used by police is now very accurate—but public understanding lags behind
The UK government's proposed reforms to policing in England and Wales signal an increase in the use of facial recognition technology. The number of live facial recognition vans is set to rise from ten to 50, making them available ...
Medical Xpress / Far fewer cervical cancer screenings are needed for HPV‑vaccinated women, study suggests
In a modeling study of women vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), researchers found that cervical cancer screening could be done far less often than current recommendations without compromising health benefits. ...
Phys.org / Psychological therapies for children whose first language isn't English can become lost in translation, study warns
Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns. The work says greater linguistic ...
Phys.org / Multiple bacteria may be behind elk hoof disease
A debilitating hoof disease affecting elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single pathogen but by multiple bacterial species working together, according to a study led by researchers in Washington ...
Phys.org / 'Negative viscosity' helps propel groups of migrating cells, study finds
The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can't just neatly glide past each other.
Phys.org / Amazon Leo satellites exceed brightness limits, study finds
Seeing a satellite zip across the night sky can be a fascinating sight. However, what may be spectacular for people on the ground is becoming a major problem for astronomers. A new study published on the arXiv preprint server ...
Phys.org / International collaboration spurs AI-powered drug discovery tool
Researchers from The Ohio State University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed an artificial intelligence framework to rapidly generate drug-like molecules that are easier to synthesize in real-world ...
Phys.org / From stellar engines to Dyson bubbles, alien megastructures could hold themselves together under the right conditions
New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering precautions, calculations ...
