Summary: A new study shows that both chimpanzees and young children are drawn to watching social interactions, sometimes even at a cost. When given a choice between viewing videos of…
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Construction on Mars takes a leap forward
Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea…
Radio signals from the dawn of time could help ‘weigh’ the universe’s 1st stars
Astronomers could use specific radio signals from the universe’s earliest epoch to “weigh” the first stars in the cosmos. The investigation could reveal more about the so-called Cosmic Dawn, the…
Choose Your Battles: Identity Shapes Displaced Aggression
Summary: Displaced aggression—redirecting frustration onto an uninvolved target—has now been studied in mice, revealing that identity and social history play key roles in shaping aggressive behavior. Male mice primed by…
Robotic system developed to treat life-threatening tension pneumothorax remotely
Researcher Carolin Müller from TUM Klinikum presents a new robotic module developed for cases of tension pneumothorax. Credit: Technical University Munich Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have…
Your smartwatch might know you’re sick before you do—and it might help stop pandemics
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Smartwatch features that measure heart rates, oxygen levels, fitness levels and sleep quality have been marketed as valuable tools for people who are eager to monitor…
Common pregnancy complications may be signals of future stroke risk
Credit: Leah Newhouse from Pexels Women who experience complications during pregnancy face a higher risk of stroke in the following decades, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.…
Zoning Out or Zoning In? How Aimless Wandering Trains the Brain
Summary: New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in tens of thousands of neurons, scientists found that the visual cortex…
New framework reduces memory usage and boosts energy efficiency for large-scale AI graph analysis
BingoCGN employs cross-partition message quantization to summarize inter-partition message flow, which eliminates the need for irregular off-chip memory access and utilizes a fine-grained structured strong lottery theory-based training algorithm to…
