EU accuses online giant Temu over sale of ‘illegal’ products

E-commerce platform Temu has 93.7 million average monthly active users in the European Union. The European Union accused Chinese-founded online shopping giant Temu on Monday of breaking the bloc’s digital…

What You Expect Shapes How Much Pain You Feel

Key Questions Answered Q: How do expectations influence pain perception?A: Expectations shaped by external cues (like visual signals) and those shaped by treatment information (like placebo explanations) both reduce pain,…

Women’s Scent During Ovulation Alters Male Stress and Attraction

Key Questions Answered Q: What did the study find about female body odor during ovulation?A: Researchers identified three specific scent compounds that increase during ovulation and found they made armpit…

Curved neural networks enable AI memory recall through geometric design

Explosive memory recall, illustrated through children playing on a curved neural landscape. Credit: Robin Hoshino A new international study has introduced Curved Neural Networks—a new type of AI memory architecture…

India’s TCS to cut 12,000 jobs

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services said Sunday it will cut around 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 jobs, as demand contracts in the…

Humanoid robots embodiment of China’s AI ambitions

People watch humanoid robots boxing at an exhibition during the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at…

New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

Your Gut May Be the Key to Chronic Fatigue, Long COVID

Key Questions Answered Q: What did the study uncover about ME/CFS?A: The study revealed that ME/CFS disrupts key interactions between the gut microbiome, immune system, and metabolism, identifying biological markers…

Urgent need for ‘global approach’ on AI regulation: UN tech chief

A man works on the electronics of Jules, a humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics using AI, at the recent International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. The…

Childhood Trauma May Rewire Brain for Lifelong Aggression

Key Questions Answered: Q: What brain region is being studied to understand aggression?A: Researchers are focusing on the thalamic nucleus reuniens, which connects memory, emotion, and decision-making areas of the…