Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Altino in northern Italy have uncovered the first monumental remains of its long-lost forum, shedding new light on the prosperous settlement whose stones…
Category: Humans
Cannabis & Tobacco Co-Use Lower Cognitive Scores in Teens
Summary: A new study filled a critical diagnostic gap regarding substance use during the early warning phases of mental illness. Investigating adolescents and young adults at clinical high risk for…
Are Long-Term Antidepressant Benefits Overstated?
Summary: A clinical overview challenged the scientific consensus supporting long-term antidepressant use. The review unmasked a fundamental flaw in existing clinical trial designs. Investigators revealed that the widely cited benefits…
Archaeologists reveal giant Zapotec complex hidden beneath Teotitlán del Valle
A team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the ARX PROJECT has completed the first comprehensive geophysical…
Despite bans, these forever chemicals linger in wax rooms, study shows – so does their health risk
For more than 30 years, manufacturers of ski and snowboard waxes used PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – to make skis and snowboards glide faster over snow. These synthetic…
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died…
Stroop Test Exposes Inherent LLM Flaw
Summary: A new cognitive evaluation of artificial intelligence has unmasked a fundamental, systemic flaw running through large language model (LLM) attention mechanisms. By administering the classic psychological “Stroop task” to…
DBS Remodels White Matter Paths to Reverse Depression
Summary: A new study uncovered the first direct evidence that deep brain stimulation (DBS) physically remodels white matter pathways and rewires large-scale neural networks. The study addresses a historic diagnostic…
Rare Deultum sculpture brings acient myth to life
Archaeologists working at the Roman city of Deultum in Bulgaria have identified and begun reconstructing a large marble sculpture showing the mythological rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, a discovery pieced…
Dr. ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her…
