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Ancient DNA reveals reason for high MS and Alzheimer's rates in Europe

Oct 17, 2024

Researchers have created the world’s largest ancient human gene bank by analysing the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across western Europe and Asia up to 34,000...

Hopkins AITC announces additional awardees of second funding round

Oct 17, 2024

The Johns Hopkins Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research, or JH AITC, has announced the last cohort of awardees that will receive support from its second round of...

Love scrambles the brain and scientists can now tell us why

Oct 17, 2024

It is well known that romantic love changes the brain, releasing the so-called love hormone oxytocin, responsible for the euphoria we feel when falling in love. In the world’s first...

New trial of 'pill-on-a-thread' brings screening for oesophageal cancer closer

Oct 17, 2024

The multi-million-pound trial is jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. She and a team of scientists, clinicians and nurses at the...

Feeling depressed linked to short-term increase in bodyweight among people with overweight or obesity

Oct 17, 2024

Questions assessed an individual’s symptoms of depression, anxiety and perceived stress. Individuals with overweight had on average an increase of 52g for each increment point increase from their usual depressive...

Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications

Oct 17, 2024

The current simplified alternative, data-driven surrogate models, compute the goal property of a solution to PDEs rather than the whole solution. This is data-intensive and expensive because complex physical systems...

Under-fire Bill Clinton escaped the furor over the latest revelations in newly-released court documents related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with a get-away trip to a luxury resort in Mexico

Oct 17, 2024

The former president, 77, has been in Latin America since the unsealing of the Jeffrey Epstein documents began, on January 3. Clinton flew several times on Epstein's private jet, and...

Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder

Oct 17, 2024

With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers. “This language network...

Researchers 3D print components for a portable mass spectrometer

Oct 17, 2024

Using additive manufacturing, MIT researchers produced a mass filter, which is the core component of a mass spectrometer, that is far lighter and cheaper than the same type of filter...

Co-creating climate futures with real-time data and spatial storytelling

Oct 17, 2024

Virtual story worlds and game engines aren’t just for video games anymore. That’s the theory and practice behind the MIT WORLDING initiative. Twice this year, WORLDING matched world-class climate story...