Forget invasive blood tests and expensive doctor visits; your breath might hold the key to monitoring kidney disease. Scientists from Italy have cleverly repurposed the humble face mask, embedding it with four sensitive gas detectors that can identify chronic kidney disease by analyzing the chemical compounds you exhale.

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Would you take menu advice from R2-D2 or C-3PO? Your answer might depend less on their programming and more on whether you perceive them as male or female, and your own sense of social power. New research from Penn State shows we don't leave our gender biases behind when interacting with machines, a finding that could reshape how restaurants design their increasingly popular robot waitstaff.

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Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics' most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, without adding any new parameters to physics.

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Your college professor can probably tell when you've used ChatGPT to write your essay, and now science explains why. While AI can mimic grammar and structure, it's missing a fundamental human quality: the ability to genuinely connect with readers.

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Smart robot vacuums spend most of their time gathering dust—literally and figuratively. New research suggests these domestic robots could be doing much more than periodic cleaning

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Digital doppelgängers just developed a pulse. Researchers hunting deepfakes long relied on a seemingly foolproof detection method: AI couldn't fake the subtle skin color changes caused by your pulse. That certainty has now collapsed, as scientists discover modern deepfakes inadvertently preserve the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, making our most trusted detection tools suddenly unreliable.

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You might soon carry a wallet made from dinosaur skin. No, not fossilized—actual leather engineered from T. rex DNA in a lab.

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The gold in your wedding ring may have come from a star’s explosive death. For decades, scientists have hunted for the factories that produce the universe's heaviest elements, and now they've found an unexpected one: magnetar giant flares, cosmic explosions that release more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 100,000 years.

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Every time you accept that gray text suggestion in Gmail or let predictive text finish your sentence, you might be unwittingly adopting a more generic, Western writing style

The post ‘AI Colonialism’: How Automated Writing Tools Are Making Everyone Sound American appeared first on Study Finds.

Researchers have figured out how to make wood much stronger by injecting it with iron minerals found in soil. This discovery, while still experimental, might eventually transform how we build everything from furniture to skyscrapers.

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When standing in a crowded room, multiple conversations blur together into an incomprehensible wall of sound. For people with hearing loss, this scenario, dubbed the "cocktail party problem," isn't just annoying; it's a barrier to social connection that can lead to isolation and cognitive decline.

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In early reporting, Portugal’s grid operator REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare phenomenon known as “induced atmospheric vibration.” REN has since reportedly refuted this. But what is this vibration? And how can energy systems be improved to mitigate the risk of widespread blackouts?

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If you visit your doctor with symptoms of joint pain, swelling, and stiffness, the diagnosis could be many different things. Is it osteoarthritis from years of wear and tear, or rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition requiring different treatment? Current diagnostic methods often involve multiple tests, imaging procedures, and sometimes weeks of uncertainty.

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People who aren’t legal experts are more willing to rely on legal advice provided by ChatGPT than by real lawyers – at least, when they don’t know which of the two provided the advice.

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Your next fried calamari appetizer might come from a printer, not the ocean. Scientists from the National University of Singapore have successfully 3D printed plant-based calamari rings that closely mimic both the texture and protein content of real squid.

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A remarkable study from University of Copenhagen researchers reveals how changing what cells use for energy dramatically transforms their identity and abilities—findings that could revolutionize our the future of cellular development and aging processes.

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After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.

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Those headlines about killer robots and humanity's extinction aren't actually numbing us to AI's current problems. New research from Switzerland reveals that hearing about existential AI threats doesn't diminish our concern for immediate issues like algorithmic bias or deepfakes. In fact, we might be perfectly capable of worrying about both.

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Scientists at Quris Technologies have uncovered evidence that some drugs become significantly more harmful to brain cells after being metabolized by the liver.

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Scientists at UC Berkeley have achieved the seemingly impossible — they’ve created a color that lies beyond the natural range of human vision.

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Mars once breathed carbon in and out just like Earth does today. NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence that the Red Planet had its own version of Earth's carbon cycle.

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Forget clunky fitness trackers. Scientists have created a wireless, self-powered smart insole that could revolutionize how we monitor movement and potentially prevent serious health issues—all while you simply walk around.

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Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

The post Milky Way Twin Discovered in the Infant Universe — But It Shouldn’t Even Exist appeared first on Study Finds.

Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and Australia.

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For decades, astronomers believed all compact objects like neutron stars and black holes received violent "natal kicks" during their formation. That theory just suffered a fatal blow.

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Astronomers may have detected the strongest evidence thus far of alien life beyond our solar system.

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Scientists think our cosmos might be turning like a merry-go-round, potentially fixing one of astronomy's biggest headaches.

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Farms might soon have a new helper that never needs a lunch break. Agricultural robots are inching closer to becoming practical farm hands, thanks to a new navigation system developed by researchers in Japan.

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Mars played by different rules than Earth when forming its magnetic field. Rather than generating magnetism with a solid core surrounded by liquid—Earth's approach—the Red Planet likely created its ancient magnetic shield with an entirely molten core.

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According to the “digital dementia” hypothesis introduced by German neuroscientist and psychiatrist Manfred Spitzer in 2012, increased use of digital devices has resulted in an over-reliance on technology. In turn, this has weakened our overall cognitive ability.

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The chemical industry powers modern life, from fertilizers to pharmaceuticals, but much of what happens at the atomic level during catalytic reactions has remained invisible—until now.

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A new study reveals that conservatives consistently trust scientists less than liberals do, and bridging this divide appears remarkably difficult.

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With wildlife populations globally 73% smaller on average than in 1970 and large mammals missing from much of the world, surely there’s never been a better time to “de-extinct” species?

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Forget headsets and gloves. Spanish scientists have created something far more intuitive: a display that lets you stick your hand right into a holographic 3D image and touch virtual objects floating in mid-air.

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Could our brains be hacked, and memories be planted or deleted? Could our emotions be controlled? Will the day come where we need to update our brain software and press restart?

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In the cold, swirling clouds above Jupiter's poles, scientists have spotted something odd: dark, oval-shaped vortices visible only in ultraviolet light that come and go like ghosts.

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Was there ever water on Mars? Scientists have pinpointed when water last flowed through Martian rocks with unprecedented precision.

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Anyone who's experienced the disappointment of finding moldy strawberries in their refrigerator just days after purchase will appreciate this innovation.

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NASA wants to put boots on Mars in the coming decades. But before the first astronauts take that historic step, scientists are warning about an overlooked threat that could derail these ambitious plans.

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An alternative to the electronic microchips we currently use are photonic chips. These use light instead of electricity to achieve higher performance. However, photonic chips have not yet taken off due to a number of hurdles.

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Beneath the surface of your skin, a constant exchange of molecules reveals crucial information about your health.

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There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test.

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The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning systems found in nature), and a reminder of how far we still are from truly reversing extinction.

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For over a century, men's public restrooms worldwide have featured essentially the same urinal design. Despite their universal presence, these fixtures have a notorious flaw that anyone who's used them knows all too well—they splash.

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For decades, educators and employers have treated mind wandering as the enemy of productivity and learning. But what if they've been wrong all along?

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In our quest to answer whether we're alone in the universe, astronomers are preparing for a major advancement: new space telescopes capable of scanning distant worlds for signs of habitability and possibly life itself. But what happens if these ambitious missions find nothing?

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Robots are getting better at telling stories, but they still don't understand what makes us cry.

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Just 160 light years from Earth, two dead stars are dancing toward destruction.

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In what might be the most deliciously revealing AI experiment to date, a food scientist at the University of Illinois enlisted ChatGPT to evaluate chocolate brownies, with results that should reassure human sensory panels everywhere.

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Professional baseball has a strange pre-game ritual that's been happening for almost 100 years: rubbing each pristine white baseball with special mud harvested from a secret spot on a Delaware River tributary in New Jersey.

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