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How will AI revolutionize drug development?

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How will AI revolutionize drug development?

The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. | Photo Credit: Thom Leach/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. “Artificial intelligence is taking…

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Countries tighten research security as China’s dominance grows

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Countries tighten research security as China’s dominance grows

Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on December 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on December 13, 2024. The event was billed as a “renewal” of…

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Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

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Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

A laboratory technician prepares COVID-19 patient samples for semi-automatic testing at Northwell Health Labs, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Lake Success, N.Y. | Photo Credit: AP Five years since Covid-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe — though at far lower levels than at the height…

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Astronomers build galaxy-sized ‘detector’ to map universe’s vibrations

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Astronomers build galaxy-sized ‘detector’ to map universe’s vibrations

Using the largest gravitational wave detector ever made, we have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. This background rumble is likely caused by collisions between the enormous black holes that reside in the hearts of galaxies. The results from our detector – an array of rapidly spinning neutron stars…

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Machine learning can help blood tests have a separate ‘normal’ for each patient

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Machine learning can help blood tests have a separate ‘normal’ for each patient

Currently, blood test readings are based on one-size-fits-all reference intervals that don’t account for individual differences. | Photo Credit: Getty Images If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run…

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Hospital admission after taking hallucinogens triples risk of schizophrenia: study

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Hospital admission after taking hallucinogens triples risk of schizophrenia: study

Given the recent increase in people taking these drugs, a research group in Canada wanted to know if there was an association between people going to hospital because of problems related to these drugs and subsequent mental ill health – specifically, schizophrenia spectrum disorder. | Photo Credit: Stock Photo A link between taking hallucinogenic drugs and psychosis has long…

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What Scientists Know About Consciousness In Octopuses, Which Have 9 Brains

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What Scientists Know About Consciousness In Octopuses, Which Have 9 Brains

San Diego, California: We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously accurate aim. As a comparative psychologist, I’m used to assaults…

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‘Amphibious mouse’ among 27 new species discovered in Peru’s Amazon

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‘Amphibious mouse’ among 27 new species discovered in Peru’s Amazon

A specimen of spiny mouse (Scolomys sp.), a species discovered on a Conservation International Rapid Assessment expedition into the Alto Mayo Landscape in Peru, is pictured, June 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters An “amphibious mouse” with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to…

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Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

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Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

In this photo released by the Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University on Monday, December 23, 2024, University’s Scientists show the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia. | Photo Credit: AP Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were…

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3D-printed guns allegedly used to kill US CEO a growing threat worldwide

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3D-printed guns allegedly used to kill US CEO a growing threat worldwide

Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this kind of homemade, or partially homemade, weapon. Often called “ghost guns” because they can be hard to trace, these firearms can be either partially or…

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