Summary: A large study across 13 experiments with over 8,000 participants shows that people are far more likely to act dishonestly when they can delegate tasks to AI rather than…
Category: Humans
Scientists find cell surface sugar that slows pancreatic cancer in mice—and it’s detectable in patient blood samples
Antithrombin (red) in human pancreatic cells. Credit: Salk Institute Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically asymptomatic…
Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals
Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did not need to happen. A missed cancer screening, a fatal…
New personalized risk score could improve ovarian cancer detection
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated a new tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve patient outcomes…
Bout of cystitis may signal presence of urogenital cancers in middle-aged adults
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A bout of the common bladder infection, cystitis, may signal the presence of urogenital cancers—which affect parts of the body involved in reproduction and excretion—in middle-aged…
Olmec rubber balls preserved with anoxia technology
Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have developed a new anoxia technique to preserve ancient Olmec rubber balls found in southern Veracruz. The Olmec are the…
Sustainable, plant-based diet benefits both human and planetary health, study finds
This graphic was prepared by EAT and is included in an adapted summary of the Commission Food in The Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems.…
AI Spots Subtle Facial Cues Linked to Early Depression Risk
Summary: Depression’s earliest signs can be hard to spot, but a new study shows AI can detect them in subtle facial movements. Japanese students with subthreshold depression were perceived as…
Bariatric surgery for weight loss shows greater long-term benefits than GLP-1 medicines
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A large Cleveland Clinic study has found that people with obesity and type 2 diabetes who undergo weight-loss surgery live longer and face fewer serious health…
Study finds laser correction for short-sightedness is safe and effective for older teenagers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A major study of laser correction for short-sightedness shows that the procedure is as safe and effective in older teenagers as it is in adults, according…
