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Medical Xpress

Psychology & Psychiatry
How the appreciation of beauty can foster perceptual learning
Autism spectrum disorders
Evidence found of link between gut microbe deficiency and autism spectrum disorder
Medical research
Researchers find that patients with acne have reduced expression of the protein GATA6
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
An algorithm that predicts the chances of a person with a latent infection developing tuberculosis
Psychology & Psychiatry
Study of chess player performance over many years suggests brain peaks at age 35
Health
Cell-type mapping used to identify cellular substrates that underlie two types of thirst
Pediatrics
Replacing asphalt with forest-type plants at daycare centers found to strengthen immune defenses in children
Cardiology
Using artificial intelligence to predict cardiovascular disease
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Binge drinking may cause Alzheimer's disease—and it might strike younger and in a severe form
Medications
Experimental COVID-19 treatment given to Trump found to relieve symptoms in macaques and hamsters

Tech Xplore

Consumer & Gadgets
An attacker can steal sensitive user data over the phone using smart speakers
Engineering
Multifunctional skin-mounted microfluidic device able to measure stress in multiple ways
Engineering
Capacitivo: A contact-sensitive technique that can be used to make smart tablecloths
Software
Google Nest hacker finds evidence of Google considering getting rid of 'Hey Google' hot words
Computer Sciences
PESAO: An experimental setup to evaluate the perceptions of freely moving humans
Electronics & Semiconductors
A cleaning-healing-cleaning method to eliminate ionic defects on the surface of perovskite films
Computer Sciences
A math idea that may dramatically reduce the dataset size needed to train AI systems
Robotics
Boston Dynamics to give Spot a robot arm and charging station
Internet
Microsoft debuts portable data center to bring cloud computing to remote environments
Consumer & Gadgets
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Compute Module 4 now ready for sale