China leading surge in generative AI patents: UN

Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels The number of international patent filings for innovations using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence have surged eightfold in six years, the UN said Wednesday, the majority…

Delaying menopause? Why keeping ovaries working longer could potentially prevent age-related diseases

The ovaries, in particular, appear to be connected to virtually every aspect of a woman’s health. They also abruptly stop performing their primary role in midlife. Once that happens, a…

Seams in clothing capture body movement

SeamSleeve is a novel sensing mechanism that uses powered seams as sensing channels, retaining traditional fabric design benefits for comfortable and robust motion capture. (a) we empirically evaluate and compare…

A potential game-changer for emergency medicine: Synthetic platelets

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine being a paramedic treating a trauma patient who’s bleeding severely. You know your patient’s life is in danger, but there’s not much you can do…

How Music Synchronizes Heart Rates and Collective Emotions

Summary: Listening to music synchronizes heart rates within individuals more reliably than between different people. This synchronization depends on physiological responses rather than mood or music preferences. The findings help…

Oxytocin’s Link to Obesity and Postnatal Depression

Summary: A new study has identified the TRPC5 gene as a cause of obesity, behavioral issues, and postnatal depression. Researchers found that missing or impaired TRPC5 genes disrupt oxytocin neurons,…

Nudging both clinicians and patients may increase serious illness conversations

Combining clinician- and patient-directed nudges may help to promote serious illness conversations (SICs) in cancer care, according to a study published online July 1 in JAMA Network Open. Samuel U.…

New recycling process can recover up to 99.97% of materials in perovskite solar cells

Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve

This still from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a swirling disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group A team of…

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