Archaeologists excavating at Darazya in the Mareotis region of Egypt have discovered two large subterranean cisterns. During antiquity, Darazya was a Greco-Roman town that may align with descriptions in ancient…
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Unknown language found on mysterious stone tablet
An inscribed tablet with an unknown language has been discovered at Bashplemi lake in Georgia’s manisi Municipality. According to a study published in the Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology,…
How We Filter Out Background Sounds When Speaking
Summary: Researchers have traced how the brain filters out background noise during speech using signals between the motor and auditory cortices. These milliseconds-long electrical signals, called auditory corollary discharge, originate…
Empathy Loss in Dementia Linked to Brain Activity Changes
Summary: Frontotemporal dementia, affecting about 3% of dementia patients in Sweden, is characterized by a loss of empathy that challenges patients and their families. Using functional MRI, researchers found that…
Bioprinting technique creates functional tissue 10x faster
HITS-Bio for SCT fabrication. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54504-7 Three-dimensional (3D) printing isn’t just a way to produce material products quickly. It also offers researchers a way to develop…
US lawmakers back COVID Chinese lab leak theory after two-year probe
Credit: CC0 Public Domain US lawmakers concluded a two-year investigation Monday into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans—backing the theory that the virus likely leaked from a Chinese…
Five new papers highlight cancer inequities, challenges and opportunities in South Asia
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — are shown in blue. Credit: Created with mapchart.net A…
Archaeologists find a vaulted structure beneath earthquake rubble
Archaeologists are conducting a rescue excavation following the discovery of a vaulted structure in Antakya, Türkiye. The structure was discovered beneath the debris of a two-story house on Kurtuluş Street…
How Alcohol Increases Pain Tolerance, and Aggression
Summary: Alcohol not only raises pain tolerance but also amplifies aggression, according to a new study. Researchers found that participants who drank alcohol had higher pain thresholds and were more…
AI can predict involuntary admissions and pave way for prevention in psychiatric services
Model performance of the XGBoost model in the test set. (a) Receiver operating characteristics curve. AUROC, area under the receiver operating characteristics curve. (b) Confusion matrix. PPR, positive predictive rate;…
