Summary: A study reveals how brain cell interactions influence aging, showing that rare cell types either accelerate or slow brain aging. Neural stem cells provide a rejuvenating effect on neighboring…
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AI can’t do your Christmas shopping just yet—but next year might be different
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain I’m a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out. Could I…
Robot mimics traditional Chinese massage techniques for therapeutic use
Credit: Xu et al. In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide range of systems that could eventually be introduced in health care and assisted living facilities. These include both…
Structural Sexism Tied to Faster Memory Decline in Older Women
Summary: Women born in states with higher structural sexism experience faster memory decline later in life, with effects equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging. Structural sexism encompasses societal inequities…
Open-source platform provides a virtual playground for human-AI teaming
The CREW platform helps human train AI agents to become better at tasks while working to understand how best to optimize this type of training and human-AI partnerships. Credit: Duke…
AI system reveals hidden drug dark jargon unknown even to police officers
Credit: Mikhail Nilov from Pexels Drug trafficking and other criminal activities on social media have become a growing social concern. To evade detection by law enforcement and automated monitoring systems,…
Amazon, OSHA reach settlement over warehouse safety citations
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Federal safety regulators have dropped nine of 10 citations accusing Amazon of putting warehouse workers at a high risk of injury, part of a settlement agreement…
