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A recent study published in The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine has found that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have significantly smaller pineal glands compared to healthy individuals. This finding suggests a possible link between the pineal gland and…
Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.
A recent study conducted in Japan on individuals with mood disorders found that a 4-week exposure to bright light resulted in an increased volume of the left hippocampal dentate gyrus, a region of the brain associated with memory and mood…
Think about a time when you were happy. What comes to mind? Was it a family game or movie night? Maybe you were hanging out with friends volunteering in your community. Or perhaps you were enjoying something beautiful — an…
“Killer electrons” stashed in radiation belts around Earth could be dislodged by lightning to create a game of “cosmic pinball” that influences space weather around our planet.
A recent study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience published in Science provides new insights into how individual brain cells in the hippocampus react to pronouns during reading. The researchers discovered that certain neurons in this part of the brain,…
SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, TED AI 2024 kicked off its first day at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater with a lineup of speakers that tackled AI’s impact on science, art, and society. The two-day event brought a mix of researchers, entrepreneurs, lawyers,…
You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock. Reston, Virginia-located Babel Street is…
Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI’s hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a “supercharged” version for a $9.99 monthly fee—most frequently chatting with bots named after his favorite Game of Thrones characters. Within a month—his…
After a rocky first half of the year, Tesla enjoyed a much healthier third quarter in 2024. As we learned earlier this month, it arrested a slide in sales, delivering 6 percent more electric vehicles year over year. But the…
