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Medical Xpress / An AI-informed model of human reward-based learning: Hybrid approach could aid studies of mood disorders

People's decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes underpinning human decision-making ...

Mar 6, 2026
Tech Xplore / Liquid-metal pupil helps an artificial eye adapt to sudden light changes

Computer vision technologies are artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems that can capture, analyze, and interpret visual data captured from real-world environments. While these systems are now widely used, many of them ...

Mar 6, 2026
Phys.org / Material previously thought to be quantum is actually a new, non-quantum state of matter

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum computation. But in the quantum realm, things are not always what they seem. A study, published ...

Mar 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / A safer, more effective atrial fibrillation treatment method using magnetic gel may be on the way

Atrial fibrillation is a common heart condition characterized by a rapid, irregular heartbeat stemming from the heart's upper chamber. It is a leading cause of stroke from clots that form in a small pouch of the heart called ...

Mar 5, 2026
Phys.org / Saturday Citations: More bad news for US footballers; ancient Mayan water management; investigative LLMs

What we learned this week: Left-handed people may have a psychological edge in competition. Humanoid robots can now do creepy parkour through the uncanny valley. And if you've ever cared for an elderly cat, a new study highlights ...

Mar 7, 2026
Phys.org / Analysis of 1,000 Tinder profiles reveals nine standard pose types

Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, most users follow one ...

Mar 7, 2026
Phys.org / NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

Mar 7, 2026
Medical Xpress / HIV-seq tool finds active reservoir cells during therapy

For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and transmission. Historically, these ...

Mar 7, 2026
Phys.org / Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known—one ...

Mar 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Transplanted neural stem cells help preserve vision in retinal degeneration

Cedars-Sinai investigators working to optimize a cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa have uncovered how transplanted neural stem cells interact with host retinal cells to preserve vision. The findings, published ...

Mar 7, 2026
Medical Xpress / A potential broad coronavirus drug target: Blocking tRNA-modifying enzymes slows viral proteins

Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to produce viral proteins and thus spread more quickly. This is the main conclusion of a study by Pompeu ...

Mar 7, 2026
Phys.org / Superfluids emerge in 2D moiré crystal formed from time, study predicts

Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time without constantly heating ...

Mar 2, 2026