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Tech Xplore / Meta chases OpenAI, Anthropic with new AI coding app
Meta entered the race for automated coding tools Wednesday when it announced a new app for developers of artificial intelligence products, competing with other major AI labs for customers and revenue.
Medical Xpress / Fewer heart attacks, more cancer cases, and better survival chances: The effectiveness of disease prevention
Medical progress is currently one of the strongest forces shaping populations and their health. For instance, an acute heart attack has evolved from being nearly always fatal in the past to having a much higher survival rate ...
Phys.org / Mechanical shortcut' rapidly carries organic particles into the deep ocean
The processes that capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it on the seabed are crucial for climate balance. However, assessing these mechanisms is often complicated because it requires measurements ranging from the ...
Medical Xpress / Turning a common oncogene's metabolic grip on cancer cells into a fatal weakness
For all its persistence as an adversary, aggressive breast cancer carries a weakness of its own making. A University of Helsinki research group has been investigating where this weakness comes from and how it can be exploited. ...
Medical Xpress / Targeting MDA-9 restrains head and neck tumor growth and eliminates therapy resistance
Chemotherapy remains a cornerstone of treatment for head and neck cancers, the seventh-most-common type of cancer worldwide. However, the disease is often diagnosed at a late stage, once it has already spread to other organs, ...
Phys.org / Unexpected bond-breaking order reveals a new path to bioluminescence
The dancing lights of fireflies and the eerie blue sparkle in crashing waves get their glow when a molecular square of carbon and oxygen atoms breaks. New research from Stanford University has shown that mechanical force ...
Medical Xpress / 15 states now linked to iceberg lettuce cyclospora outbreak, CDC says
Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
Medical Xpress / Avoiding three things during middle age is linked to 13 more years without dementia
Having normal blood pressure, no diabetes and not smoking between ages 45 and 65 is associated with nearly 13 additional years of dementia-free life, on average, a new study shows. Led by NYU Langone Health researchers, the ...
Medical Xpress / Outreach to bone marrow transplant survivors and their primary care doctors can markedly cut skin cancer risk
Experts at City of Hope, one of the nation's largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations, are shining a spotlight on the risk of skin cancer faced by hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) survivors, ...
Phys.org / Educational psychologists warn of growing pressure on children's services
Growing backlogs in Education, Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNAs) are making it difficult for educational psychologists to prioritize early intervention because they are weighed down by statutory assessments.
Medical Xpress / Dry needling is different from acupuncture. So what's involved? And is it effective?
Physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths commonly use dry needling to treat neck, shoulder, back and other types of muscle pain.
Phys.org / Ancient Irish volcano offers new clues about the development of its modern-day, active 'brothers and sisters'
An international team of volcanologists working on Carlingford Mountain has found that liquid "magma chambers" do not always exist beneath volcanoes. The team instead demonstrated that magma "plumbing systems" beneath Earth's ...
