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A recent study published in Genomic Psychiatry has unveiled a promising new therapy that may help improve memory and reduce anxiety. The study, conducted by scientists at Cognigenics, explores the potential of an innovative intranasal treatment known as COG-201. This…
This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada’s Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, kicking off a $5.2 billion robotic mission to explore one of the most promising locations in the Solar System for finding…
For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical “reasoning”…
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written prompts. It joins similar offerings from OpenAI, Runway, Google, and Meta in an increasingly crowded field. Unlike the competition, Adobe…
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen Jupiter’s Great Red Spot oscillating in width as it drifts around the planet. Could this be related to its overall shrinking?
A New York judge recently called out an expert witness for using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot to inaccurately estimate damages in a real estate dispute that partly depended on an accurate assessment of damages to win. In an order Thursday, judge…
The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner” as it continues to recover from attacks that took the site down last week, founder Brewster Kahle said in a post last night. The archive.org…
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of…
A new study has found that individuals who prefer sweet foods and drinks are more likely to experience depression. Published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, the research revealed that people with a “sweet tooth” had a 31% higher likelihood…
