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Tech Xplore / Brain activity patterns could help sharpen LLM deductive reasoning
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other similar conversational agents, are now widely used worldwide. In addition to processing, interpreting ...
Medical Xpress / Clinical trials show significant reduction in COPD flare-ups with investigational therapy
Two international clinical trials led in part by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that the investigational biologic therapy tozorakimab significantly reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Medical Xpress / Nearly one in five pediatric psychiatric crises involve digital media, new study finds
A new study analyzing more than 3,700 pediatric psychiatric crisis encounters at a large tertiary children's hospital finds that nearly 1 in 5 visits involved a digital media or device-related problem (DMRP), shedding light ...
Phys.org / Working with anglers to save England's sharks
I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer. My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and I were ...
Medical Xpress / Brain's inhibitory circuits emerge as a potential brake on adult glioma progression
Brain tumors do not grow in isolation. They develop within the highly active environment of the brain, where neurons continuously exchange electrical and chemical signals. While previous studies have shown that neuronal activity ...
Medical Xpress / Brain vascular cells resist gene changes across neurological disease models
Even though Alzheimer's disease, the hereditary vascular disorder CADASIL, and traumatic brain injury are all associated with inflammation and changes in the brain's blood vessels, many vascular cells appear to retain their ...
Medical Xpress / Molecular 'eat' signals slow tumors and extend survival in animal models
Researchers from Cambridge and Basel have developed small molecules that could make cancer immunotherapies more effective. They work in two ways: they prompt macrophages to engulf cancer cells and alter the surrounding tissue, ...
Phys.org / Can what we feed farm animals directly benefit our own health?
Several chronic diseases—obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers—have been linked to lifestyles and diets high in calories, based on processed foods and lacking diversity and nutritional value.
Medical Xpress / Huachuma, the Andean psychedelic cactus, is drawing Western seekers and raising ethical questions
For at least two decades, thousands of Americans have been going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil to look for ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in sacred ceremonies in South America. Ayahuasca contains ...
Medical Xpress / Exploring why strep throat can linger, even after treatment with antibiotics
Streptococcal sore throat—strep throat for short—is one of the nastier maladies of childhood, causing fever, swollen tonsils and the namesake sore throat. The bacterial infection can linger even after treatment, turning otherwise ...
Tech Xplore / AI is helping ease competition for scarce space on the airwaves
Every time you make a phone call, stream a video or connect to Wi-Fi, your device is sending and receiving invisible signals through the air. So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, GPS, weather-monitoring satellites ...
Tech Xplore / Editorial proposes limits on generative AI's role in scientific research
An editorial by Charles Branas and Bruce Levine proposes norms for the use of AI in science.
