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Hearing aids may help those with hearing loss live longer, finds analysis
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows. Those who don’t use…
Risk-Taking Behavior Linked to Persistence of Male Bisexuality Genes
Summary: A new study sheds light on the persistence of genes associated with male bisexuality in the human genome. The research suggests that these genes are linked to risk-taking behavior,…
Archaeologists investigate the mysterious Mongolian Arc
A new study by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia, has revealed new insights regarding the Mongolian Arc, a 405 km long…
AI agents help explain other AI systems
FIND is a new benchmark suite for evaluating automated interpretability methods in neural networks, featuring functions that mimic real-world network components and their complexities. It also presents a novel interactive…
Cannabis can make workouts more fun, but it’s no performance-enhancer
Ultrarunner Heather Mashhoodi runs on the treadmill in 2021 as part of a study exploring how cannabis influences exercise. First author Laurel Gibson takes notes in the background. Study participants used…
New tool will make math-heavy research papers easier to view online
A schematic for creating the SciA11y HTML render from a paper PDF. Starting with the raw two-column PDF on the left, S2ORC [24] is used to extract the title, authors,…
After all of this time searching for aliens, are we stuck with the zoo hypothesis?
The Karl Jansky Very Large Array at night, with the Milky Way visible in the sky. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; J. Hellerman In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the…
Radiation therapy takes advantage of cancer’s poor DNA repair abilities – an oncologist and physicist explain how
Nearly half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their care. Ionizing radiation, or the emission of high-energy waves or particles, works as a therapy by damaging…
