Human Quirks News
May 18, 2024
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May 15, 2024 What makes the oldfield mouse steadfastly monogamous throughout its life while its closest rodent relatives are promiscuous? The answer may be a previously unknown hormone-generating cell. Scientists discover the cells and hormones that inspire mice ...
May 13, 2024 Today, there are dozens of large language model (LLM) chatbots aimed at mental health care -- addressing everything from loneliness among seniors to anxiety and depression in teens. But the efficacy of these apps is unclear. Even more unclear is how ...
May 15, 2024 Research could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and robot to be able to feel touch like a human hand. The technology could also be used to help restore lost functionality to patients after a ...
May 13, 2024 Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human ...
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May 15, 2024 Eurasian jays can remember incidental details of past events, which is characteristic of episodic memory in humans, according to a new ...
May 9, 2024 Researchers have created the largest synaptic-resolution, 3D reconstruction of a piece of human brain to date, showing in vivid detail each cell and its web of neural connections in a piece of human ...
May 8, 2024 Researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging 'digital afterlife industry' causing social and psychological ...
May 7, 2024 Understanding how mucus changes, and what it changes in response to, can help diagnose illnesses and develop treatments. Researchers develop a system to grow mucus-producing intestinal cells and ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Post-mitotic neurons in the brain that re-enter the cell cycle quickly succumb to senescence, and this re-entry is more common in Alzheimer's ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Cells constantly navigate a dynamic environment, facing ever-changing conditions and challenges. But how do cells swiftly adapt to these environmental fluctuations? A new study is answering that ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the ...
Apr. 10, 2024 In a new breakthrough that could revolutionise medical and material engineering, scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind molecular device that ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as ...
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May 1, 2024 The body clock has a significant impact on the performance of NBA players. Data shows vastly better win ratio for home teams from the Western Time Zone Area (PDT) when playing an EDT team, compared ...
Apr. 29, 2024 For most people, biting into a lemon would leave them puckered up and desperate to lose that sour flavor, but a new study revealed that roughly one in eight adults like intensely sour sensations. The ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...
Apr. 2, 2024 A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Apr. 1, 2024 An international study using artificial intelligence has shown that our personalities alter the expression of our genes. The findings shed new light on the long-standing mystery of how the mind and ...
Apr. 1, 2024 Engineers have created a brain-computer interface that doesn't require calibration for each user, paving the way for widespread clinical ...
Mar. 28, 2024 Through DNA sequencing of Tasmanian devils and their tumors, researchers have tracked the genomic interactions between the animals and the ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Researchers have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, found in an Irish limestone cave. Genetic analyses of these microbiomes reveal major changes in the ...
Mar. 27, 2024 This unusual, subterranean mammal with extreme longevity shows genetic adaptations to low oxygen environments which could offer opportunities for advancing other areas of physiological and medical ...
Mar. 27, 2024 People who can't visualize an image in their mind's eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognize faces, according to a review of nearly ten ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Tardigrade proteins are potential candidates in technologies centered on slowing the aging process and in long-term storage of human ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a rather low genetic predisposition for beat synchronization, according to a new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team compiled a new archive of preserved human brains, which highlighted ...
Mar. 25, 2024 In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted, ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Motor neurons are the cells the brain uses to command muscles to act. Scientists typically thought of them as simple connections, much like the cables that link computers with their accessories. Now, ...
Mar. 19, 2024 In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers have developed a new training tool to help artificial intelligence (AI) programs better account for the fact that humans don't always tell the truth when providing personal ...
Mar. 15, 2024 Researchers have created a DNA origami platform called DoriVac, whose core component is a self-assembling square block-shaped nanostructure. DoriVac vaccines enabled tumor-bearing mice to better ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Advanced killer robots are more likely to blamed for civilian deaths than military machines, new research has revealed. The study shows that high-tech bots will be held more responsible for ...
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- Study Uses Artificial Intelligence to Show How Personality Influences the Expression of Our Genes
- Universal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts
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- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- Secrets of the Naked Mole-Rat: New Study Reveals How Their Unique Metabolism Protects Them from Heart Attacks
- A Decade of Aphantasia Research: What We've Learned About People Who Can't Visualize
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Researchers Show That Introduced Tardigrade Proteins Can Slow Metabolism in Human Cells
- Beethoven's Genes Reveal Low Predisposition for Beat Synchronization
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- New Archive of Ancient Human Brains Challenges Misconceptions of Soft Tissue Preservation
- Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory
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- Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life
- CSI in Space: Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns in Microgravity
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Sprinting 'like a Jet' Will Produce Premier League Strikers of Tomorrow, Study Shows
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- AI Outperforms Humans in Standardized Tests of Creative Potential
- Study Identifies Multi-Organ Response to Seven Days Without Food
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Scientists ID Burned Bodies Using Technique Used for Extracting DNA from Woolly Mammoths, Neanderthals
- Radio Waves Can Tune Up Bacteria to Become Life-Saving Medicines
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- Smart Earrings Can Monitor a Person's Temperature
- How Teachers Make Ethical Judgments When Using AI in the Classroom
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- AI Study Reveals Individuality of Tongue's Surface
- Thinking About God Inspires Risk-Taking for Believers, Study Finds
- Viking Dentistry Was Surprisingly Advanced
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
- Enzymes Can't Tell Artificial DNA from the Real Thing
- Cognitive Strategies for Augmenting the Body With a Wearable, Robotic Arm
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- People Watched Other People Shake Boxes for Science: Here's Why
- AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms
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- A Small Molecule Blocks Aversive Memory Formation, Providing a Potential Treatment Target for Depression
- Wearables Capture Body Sounds to Continuously Monitor Health
- Realistic Talking Faces Created from Only an Audio Clip and a Person's Photo
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- When We Feel Things That Are Not There
- When We See What Others Do, Our Brain Sees Not What We See, but What We Expect
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- Rats Have an Imagination, New Research Suggests
- How 'blue' And 'green' Appeared in a Language That Didn't Have Words for Them
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- Plant-Based Materials Give 'life' To Tiny Soft Robots
- Simulating Cold Sensation Without Actual Cooling
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- Wearable Device Makes Memories and Powers Up With the Flex of a Finger
- The Encounter Between Neanderthals and Sapiens as Told by Their Genomes
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- Neanderthal Gene Variants Associated With Greater Pain Sensitivity
- Extreme Sports: How Body and Mind Interact
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- The Medicine of the Future Could Be Artificial Life Forms
- And Then There Were 6 -- Kinds of Taste, That Is