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Medical Xpress / Early warning signs: Poor grip strength linked to greater odds of developing depression

Handgrip strength is the maximum force a person can apply with their hand, and it is often used as a proxy for overall muscular strength, functional capacity, and aging. Scientists have found that it can also be an indicator ...

9 hours ago
Phys.org / Grokipedia selectively draws on more-right leaning news sources, says new study

A large-scale analysis of Grokipedia, the world's first AI-written encyclopedia, has found that while many Grokipedia articles closely resemble their Wikipedia counterparts, a substantial subset diverged markedly in style, ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / BMI alone does not fully capture health risks linked to obesity, new study finds

Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and AstraZeneca show that integrating measurements such as body fat percentage and waist circumference captures ...

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Tech Xplore / Researchers improve AI's ability to learn new tasks without sacrificing performance

A new framework allows AI models that have already been trained to learn new tasks without sacrificing performance when performing old tasks. The framework, called CHEEM, also improves an AI model's operating efficiency by ...

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Phys.org / Who moves away when climate change hits? The hidden household politics of migration

Many people are migrating within countries across South Asia to cope with extreme weather. In Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal, people often move from rural homes to urban metropolises when their homes and livelihoods ...

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Medical Xpress / Kids who take risks at play make faster, smarter decisions in traffic

Children who take more risks on the playground make safe decisions more quickly when crossing a busy street. That's the central finding of a new study by researchers from UBC and Queen Maud University College in Norway, and ...

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Phys.org / How a super El Niño could trigger global famine

Extreme heat and drought could damage harvests and worsen global food insecurity this summer.

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Phys.org / Overlooked 'history force' may skew particle motion by up to 60% in shaken fluids

Physicists at the University of Bayreuth have investigated the so-called Basset–Boussinesq history force acting on particles in fluids. Due to the difficulty of calculating it, this force is often neglected—a fact that Bayreuth ...

5 hours ago
Phys.org / Decoding the balance between life-and-death proteins

In every organism, the regulation of cell populations is a constant process. This balance relies on a continuous interplay between "guardian" proteins that promote cell survival and "killer" proteins that trigger programmed ...

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Medical Xpress / Sleep disturbances during pregnancy associated with a risk of gestational diabetes

A study by Kuopio University Hospital and the University of Eastern Finland shows that sleep disturbances during pregnancy may be a significant risk factor for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

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Phys.org / Active and passive membrane exchange reshape how cell surface clusters grow, study finds

Cellular membranes not only constitute a barrier, but they also accommodate a plethora of different molecules for sensing and ensuring cellular function. These molecules often cluster together, forming condensates embedded ...

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Phys.org / New form of NAND flash data storage for deep space missions can survive 1 million rads

As space missions travel farther from Earth, spacecraft must increasingly be able to process and store their own data. Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) could be the primary tool for handling this growing volume of information.

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