Depression Alters Brain Circuits, Heightening Negative Perception

Summary: Scientists have identified how depression alters the brain’s response to positive and negative stimuli, particularly in the amygdala, a key emotional processing center. The study found that depression reduces…

Research provides tools to help engineers adapt infrastructure

Individual Reward-Seeking Predicts Nicotine Response

Summary: A new study finds that individualistic reward-seeking behaviors in mice can predict their responses to nicotine. Conducted in a semi-natural environment called Souris-City, the research observed how male mice…

Study shows that LLMs could maliciously be used to poison biomedical knowledge graphs

Scorpius generates a malicious paper and mixes it with real papers. This poisoned knowledge graph will contain a malicious link. As a result, the relevance between a promoted drug and…

An ethical and legal matter that demands discussion

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The new European legal framework on artificial intelligence, the EU AI Act, came into force on August 1, aimed at preventing rights violations through the use…

New performance record for eco-friendly nanocrystal solar cells

Chick Calls Reveal Emotional States

Summary: Researchers have developed a way to measure stress in baby chicks using vocalizations, offering new insights into animal emotions. The study found that chicks alone produced higher-pitched, louder calls,…

Brain Signals Reveal How Aggression and Arousal Are Encoded

Summary: New research has uncovered that brain signals for aggression in male mice and sexual arousal in female mice are encoded by similar neural mechanisms. The studies found that a…

Soft robotic shorts could assist older adults and people with limited mobility while walking

Solving computationally hard problems with 3D integrated photonics

Computing results of the SSP instances where the set is {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17} and {2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17}, respectively. (a) and (c) The experimental…