There have been several studies pointing to an impairment of the cognitive abilities of pregnant women. A new Tel Aviv University study reveals that bats, too, experience a decline in their ability to hunt and orient in space ...
Plants & Animals
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The artificial intelligence developer OpenAI promises to reshape the way people work and learn with its new chatbot called ChatGPT. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in fact, the large language model is already aiding ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Scientists often act as detectives, piecing together clues that alone may seem meaningless but together crack the case. Professor Reuben Shaw has spent nearly two decades piecing together such clues to understand the cellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Human beings have massively changed the Earth system. Greenhouse-gas emissions produced by human activities have caused the global mean temperature to rise by more than 1.1°C compared to the preindustrial era. And every ...
Environment
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Scientists have successfully applied reinforcement learning to a challenge in molecular biology. The team of researchers developed powerful new protein design software adapted from a strategy proven adept at board games like ...
Biotechnology
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Transmissible cancers, which occur only rarely in the animal kingdom, are spread by the transfer of living cancer cells. In the case of Tasmanian devils, the cells are transferred through biting—a behavior that is common ...
Evolution
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For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea.
Plants & Animals
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An extra copy of a gene that controls synapse formation in the cortex causes excessive inhibitory signaling and may contribute to Down syndrome, according to a new study publishing April 20th in the open access journal PLOS ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 20, 2023
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South Korea is a relatively quiet country, seismically speaking, but a recent study identified more than 182,000 small seismic events—135,000 of which were related to mining explosions, according to a presentation at the ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2023
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Biologists at the University of Cincinnati discovered that underfed jumping spiders lose light-sensitive cells that are key to their vision.
Plants & Animals
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