Viewpoint: ‘Enemy of Science’ — Friends of the Earth renews its organic industry-funded campaign against GM crops

Life expectancy increased as world addressed major killers, though poor pandemic management slowed progress

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990 according to a new study published in The Lancet. Over the past three decades, reductions in death…

Study reveals disease landscape of Ancient Egypt

A new study, published in the journal Advances in Parasitology, has conducted a meta-analysis of mummies to reveal new insights into the disease landscape of Ancient Egypt. Egypt’s position in…

Good evidence confuses ChatGPT when used for health information, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A world-first study has found that when asked a health-related question, the more evidence that is given to ChatGPT, the less reliable it becomes—reducing the accuracy…

High-speed railway track components inspection framework leverages latest advancements in AI

by KeAi Communications Co. Producer-consumer inference pipeline based on nodes parallelization and concurrency. Credit: Tang, Y., & Qian, Y. In railway maintenance, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep…

Key technologies in digital twin of railway wireless network

by KeAi Communications Co. The architecture of wireless network DT-based system. Credit: Ke Guan, Xinghai Guo, Danping He, et al. The railway system will continue to integrate global positioning systems…

Bridging Motivation Gaps: LLMs and Health Behavior Change

Summary: A new study explores how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Llama 2 address different motivational states in health-related contexts, revealing a significant gap in their…

Simulating ejecta on titanium spacecraft surfaces under re-entry extreme environment conditions

Credit: University of Sheffield The upper-stage helium tank of the Ariane 3 that was launched in 1985 was recovered in Uganda in 2002 after re-entry. Molten aluminum splashes were discovered…

Immunotherapy Shows Promise as Alzheimer’s Treatment

Summary: Researchers unveiled a novel approach to combat Alzheimer’s disease by activating microglia, the brain’s immune cells, to devour amyloid beta plaques, a hallmark of the condition. This study highlights…

A breakthrough in monolithic Fabry-Perot microcavities