University of Houston professor of psychology Arturo Hernandez is disputing a high-profile study published in the journal Nature Aging claiming that people who live in multilingual countries show healthier brain aging. Though the study got lots…
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Researcher disputes claim that multilingualism promotes better brain aging
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Five-minute test spots PFAS down to parts-per-trillion
When Sandia scientists Ryan Davis and Nathan Bays set out to find a better way to absorb and degrade PFAS in water sources, they kept running into the same issue: Detecting the chemicals in samples took too long. So, they came up with their own…
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OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government
More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government.
“If allowed to proceed, this effort to…
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Menopause hormone therapy is popular, so why the 'mad scramble' to fill prescriptions?
With the removal of the black-box warning on hormone therapy for menopause, some providers and patients report shortages or delays, waiting for a pharmacy to restock transdermal estrogen patches.
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High-intensity interval training boosts muscle mitochondria, study shows
Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark investigated how eight weeks of high-intensity interval training affect the structure of mitochondria—the parts of muscle cells that produce energy. The study shows that training not only…
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Terraforming Mars isn't a climate problem—it's an industrial nightmare
Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an entire planet is not something to do easily. Over the following decades, plenty of scientists and engineers have looked at…
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Anthropic Introduces Code Review via Claude Code to Automate Complex Security Research Using Advanced Agentic Multi-Step Reasoning Loops
In the frantic arms race of ‘AI for code,’ we’ve moved past the era of the glorified autocomplete. Today, Anthropic is double-downing on a more ambitious vision: the AI agent that doesn’t just write your boilerplate, but…
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Apple’s Foldable iPhone Just Got Its Most Convincing Leak Yet
The foldable iPhone may be closer to reality than ever. Longtime Apple leaker Sonny Dickson shared on Monday what appear to be 3D CAD renderings of the rumored device. While the post didn’t offer any evidence that these were official renders from…
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Q&A: How a tiny cellular portal could open vast possibilities for medicine
Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, containing all the genetic instructions for making proteins. To keep the body operating smoothly, proteins, RNA molecules,…
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Elevated heart failure risk identified in adults with prediabetes, hypertension and subclinical heart injury or stress
A new study from researchers led by Johns Hopkins Medicine reports substantial new evidence that elevated blood biomarkers of subclinical heart injury or stress—heart muscle damage without symptoms of a heart attack—are linked to an increased…
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