The tech world is convinced AI is here to stay — the question is, what will it look like going forward? Months after the spectacular launch of ChatGPT, the AI…
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Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds
Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant…
Reading for pleasure early in childhood linked to better cognitive performance and mental well-being in adolescence
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a…
Keeping the backdoor secure in your robust machine learning model
The visible distributed trigger is shown in Figure 1(a) and the target label is seven (7). The training data is modified. We see this in Figure 1(b) and the model…
‘Smiling cat’ Sh2-284 nebula captured in new image
This spectacular picture of the Sh2-284 nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Sh2-284 is a star formation region, and at…
Obesity Alters Brain’s Response to Food Cues
Summary: New research using molecular imaging with 18F-flubatine PET/MRI shows a distinct response to food cues in the brains of obese individuals compared to those of normal-weight individuals. The study…
Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist
This artistic depiction shows electron fractionalization—in which strongly interacting charges can “fractionalize” into three parts—in the fractional quantum anomalous Hall phase. Credit: Eric Anderson/University of Washington Quantum computing could revolutionize…
COVID-19 Worries Influence Emotional Quality of Daydreams
Summary: A new study investigated the connection between COVID-19-related anxieties and the emotional content of daydreaming and nighttime dreaming. It found a significant correlation between daily COVID-19 worries and the…
Fresco depicting a still life uncovered in Pompeii |
Excavations in Pompeii’s Regio IX has led to the discovery of a 2,000 year-old fresco painting depicting a still life scene. Pompeii was a Roman city, located in the modern…
Research team achieves near-perfect bone healing with new multi-leveled scaffold
(a) Schematic representation of the (a) bone structure and its composition ranging from nanometers to micrometers and (b) development of biomimetic scaffolds containing the various steps for preparing a combinatorial…

