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Medical Xpress

Gastroenterology
A single enzymatic switch steers cell fate in intestinal regeneration
Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain cortex structure linked to mental abilities and psychiatric disorders
Neuroscience
Autonomic nervous system is key driver of global fMRI signal, study finds
Cardiology
Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function, posing potential stroke risk
Neuroscience
How choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes fetal brain development
Health
Bicycling tied to reduced dementia risk and greater hippocampal volume retention
Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychiatric prescriptions linked to higher ALS risk and faster decline
Cardiology
Long-term study ties midlife vascular health to later dementia risk
Ophthalmology
Use of semaglutide linked to doubled risk of neovascular macular degeneration
HIV & AIDS
Potent mRNA nanoparticles force dormant HIV out of hiding in white blood cells

Tech Xplore

Computer Sciences
Benchmarking hallucinations: New metric tracks where multimodal reasoning models go wrong
Engineering
A framework for realizing a microscopic, highly precise and energy-efficient quantum clock
Robotics
Vision-language models gain spatial reasoning skills through artificial worlds and 3D scene descriptions
Robotics
Training robots without robots: Smart glasses capture first-person task demos
Hardware
Chinese researchers debut world's first AI-based processor chip design system
Robotics
Bio-mimetic robotic hand seamlessly integrates tactile feedback to outperform predecessors
Robotics
Debut of LLM-enabled humanoid robot at event met with mixed reviews by human attendees
Business
Novel analytics framework measures empathy of people captured in video recordings
Engineering
An active optical intensity interferometry scheme enables synthetic aperture imaging from over a kilometer away
Computer Sciences
Chain-of-Zoom framework enables extreme super-resolution zoom without retraining