More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics accumulate in coastal waters, they continuously leach bioactive additives that can interfere with the chemical cues…
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Marine plastic pollution alters octopus predator-prey encounters, study shows
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New lab technique can reverse chemical process linked with Alzheimer's disease
An Oregon State University scientist and a team of undergraduate students have uncovered real-time insights into a chemical process linked with Alzheimer’s disease, paving the way toward better drug designs. The researchers used a molecule…
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HEART benchmark assesses ability of LLMs and humans to offer emotional support
Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human language and generate texts in response to specific user queries, are now used daily by a growing number of people worldwide. While initially these models…
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Marquis sues firewall provider SonicWall, alleges security failings with its firewall backup led to ransomware attack
Fintech giant Marquis is suing its firewall provider SonicWall, claiming that an earlier breach allowed hackers to steal sensitive information about customer firewalls that led to a ransomware attack on Marquis’ network.
The lawsuit, filed…
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When smaller means better: How device scaling enhances memory performance
Shrinking ferroelectric tunnel junctions can significantly boost their performance in memory devices, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. The team fabricated nanoscale junctions directly on silicon substrates and analyzed conduction…
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Beyond Fear: Amygdala is the Brain’s Strategic Mediator
Summary: The amygdala has long been pigeonholed as the brain’s “primitive fear center,” but new research suggests it is actually a highly sophisticated strategic mediator. The study shows that the amygdala helps the brain choose between two…
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The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved
There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It’s located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson liquid suddenly gushes from the dazzling white…
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Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves
Mathematicians just made a big leap forward on one of the field’s all-time favorite problems.
Curves—squiggly lines through space, such as a comet’s trajectory or a stock market trend—are some of math’s simplest objects. But even though…
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Citizens engage with information in different ways during a crisis, Finnish study finds
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major health crisis that challenged citizens’ information management routines. Epistemic ideals guided how people scanned and filtered information, engaged with it and adapted their behavior accordingly.
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‘We’re working with an infinite set of minds’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI can offer your business so much more than you ever thought possible
- Microsoft CEO outlines the potential of AI for businesses
- Satya Nadella states AI should augment, not replace human workers
- Microsoft releases new research noting how many firms are keen to embrace AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has once again…
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