Summary: A new study questions whether playing youth football leads to harmful protein buildup in the brain. Researchers examined 174 donated brains, including former high school and college players, and…
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Spotting Silent Scars: A New Way to Detect Childhood Abuse
Summary: Childhood maltreatment leaves profound and often unseen scars, affecting mental health, physical well-being, and social development long into adulthood. Traditional assessments are invasive and often miss the full scope…
Latest Grok chatbot turns to Musk for some answers
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, already faced renewed scrutiny this week after responses that praised Adolf Hitler. The latest version of xAI’s generative artificial intelligence…
Some warning alerts can lead to more hazardous driving
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In recent years, every new car driver has been getting used to bells and beeps. As automakers try to make cars safer, they’ve introduced increasingly sophisticated…
Elon Musk’s X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud
An “X” sign rests atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger, File French prosecutors have launched…
New method replaces nickel and cobalt in battery for cleaner, cheaper lithium-ion batteries
The necessity of annealing and Li-reinsertion after washing of NM-LMTO in decoupling the crystallinity and the particle size. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60946-4 From lab to industry The research…
Animal-inspired AI robot learns to navigate unfamiliar terrain
Robot walks on concrete paving slabs. Credit: Joseph Humphreys, University of Leeds. Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to…
Familiar Faces and Fights: What Monkeys Like to Watch Most
Summary: A new study reveals that long-tailed macaques, like humans, are most captivated by videos featuring social conflict and familiar group members. Researchers showed the macaques videos of monkeys engaged…
An underground tech surfaces as a serious clean energy contender
Fervo Energy’s Cape Station enhanced geothermal site located near Milford, Utah. Credit: Fervo Energy A once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth’s heat to generate electricity could supply up to…
Modeling shows geothermal and borehole thermal energy storage can reliably heat buildings in extreme cold
Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, in winter. Credit: Molly Rettig, NREL New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and reuse…
