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Phys.org / It takes three types of thinking to be smart
Do you know what it means to be smart? It's a more complicated question than it may seem. There are several ways to think about intelligence—as the well-known "book-vs.-street smart" binary illustrates. By most people's ...
Medical Xpress / Outdated mortality benchmarks risk missing early signs of famine and delay recognizing mass starvation
Recent global crises have exposed the limits of a universal mortality threshold for declaring famine—an approach that can obscure how famine actually unfolds across different populations. In a paper published in The Lancet, ...
Phys.org / Using books as discussion prompts can help children with language delay
Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being "school-ready." In 2022–23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in school, rising to 45% ...
Medical Xpress / SSRI medications during pregnancy may increase risk of gestational diabetes but protect against preterm birth
An international team of researchers has found that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes and early adaptation ...
Tech Xplore / Energy-hungry AI and air conditioning risk wiping out climate gains made by renewables
The rapid expansion of renewable energy is being used to meet rising electricity demands rather than displacing fossil fuels, according to new research by the University of Sussex. Energy-hungry artificial intelligence data ...
Medical Xpress / Broken legs, skier's thumb and 'sled head': Just some of the injuries risked by Winter Olympians
The sports featured at the Winter Olympics defy gravity and physics. Many competitors move at breakneck speeds down steep, snowy inclines or careen across icy surfaces in a bid to set world records and earn their place on ...
Phys.org / Putting economic theory to the test: Cutting local taxes cuts household income
Voters might think less taxes would equate to more money in their pockets, but a new study shows that at the local level, the opposite may actually be true. Economists and politicians have weighed the benefits of different ...
Phys.org / AI framework fuses data and literature to speed high-entropy alloy discovery
High-entropy alloys are promising advanced materials for demanding applications, but discovering useful compositions is difficult and expensive due to the vast number of possible element combinations. Now, researchers have ...
Tech Xplore / Research shows companies can gain advantage by prioritizing customer privacy
For many companies, customer privacy is often seen as a regulatory burden that limits data use and personalization rather than as a business opportunity. Research by Natalie Chisam at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln ...
Dialog / Old galaxies in a young universe?
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at high-redshift. The redshift ...
Phys.org / IceCube upgrade adds six deep sensor strings to detect lower-energy neutrinos
Since 2010, the IceCube Observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station has been delivering groundbreaking measurements of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. It consists of many detectors embedded in a volume of Antarctic ...
Phys.org / Changing the way we warn about natural disasters
With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization and others, ...
