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UK Teens Vaping Linked to Smoking Uptake

Link Between Ultra-Processed Food and Lung Cancer

Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehab Reduces Atrial Fibrillation Severity

Diabetes Epidemic: Over 38 Million Americans Affected

Community Involvement in Dementia Care: Beyond Spouses & Children

High-Intensity Training Aids Cancer Battle: ECU Study

Tragic Death: Boy Succumbs to Brain-Eating Amoeba

Surgical Treatment for Neurological Disorders: Deep Brain Stimulation

Herpes Infections and Alzheimer's: Potential Link Explored

Cannabis Use Disorder Linked to Higher Oral Cancer Risk

Study Finds Low Risk of Locoregional Recurrence in Young Breast Cancer Patients

Childhood Immunization Progress in Africa: Global Targets at Risk

Low Blood Sugar Linked to Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Prediabetes Twice as Common in Asian Adolescents

Study: Avian Influenza Virus in Dairy Cattle Maintains Bird-Infecting Traits

Breakthrough Discovery by ANU Researchers Enhances Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatments

Planned Parenthood Clinics Maintain Medicaid Funding

Virtual Nature Exposure Boosts Well-Being in Dementia Patients

Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks Ease Pain in Kids with Broken Thigh Bones

Unlocking the Power of Contextual Memory Recall

Local Homicide Rates Linked to Higher Suicide Rates

New Clinical Guideline for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Management

U.S. Health Spending vs. Community Health: New Research Insights

UK Residents Consume Eight Plant Varieties Daily

President Lyndon Johnson Signs Medicare into Law

First Malaria Treatment for Babies and Young Children Approved

Climate Change Worsens Diarrhea Risk for Children

Efficient Capture of Circulating Tumor Cells for Cancer Diagnosis

Study Reveals $192 Billion Health Care Costs Due to Inadequate Physical Activity

Discovery: PD-1 Guides T Cells for Skin Immunity

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Human Presence in US National Parks Affects Animal Behavior

Wild Great Tits Show Early Divorce Signals

Unusually Hot Rock Beneath Appalachians Linked to Ancient Split

Variation in Blood Glycoproteins: Top 10 Dominance

Rising Threat: Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Claim 5 Million Lives

Global Research Dominance: Factors Influencing Study Origins

Global Framework Proposed to Regulate Tire Additives

Southeast U.S. Residents Urged to Stay Hydrated Amid Record Heat

Rice University Engineers E. coli as Multiplexed Sensors

Plastic Waste Breakdown Threatens Global Ecosystems

Smartphone-Controlled Capsule Communicates with Gut Bacteria

Amyloids: Key Driver of Alzheimer's Disease

Is There a Massive Undiscovered Planet in the Solar System?

Harness AI for Quick Essay Writing & Reading Skips

Land Dispossession Struggle in Post-Apartheid South Africa

French Health Experts Warn Against Bee-Killing Pesticide

Reddit Hate Speech Posts Show Similarities to Psychiatric Disorder Communities

Trump Administration to Reverse Key Climate Change Determination

Rising Online Child Abuse: STOP-CSAM's Therapeutic Chat Intervention

Qut Researchers Innovate Remote Sensing for Antarctica's Moss & Lichen

Ancient Hominins: Study Reveals Size Disparity in Ancestors

Study Suggests Tech Boost for Coral Restoration

Lab-Grown Beef: Taste and Consistency Similar to Real Meat

Study by National Physical Laboratory Reveals Noise Impact on Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers

Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Manage $35 Million Plant Cost

Breakthrough Study: Advancing Affordable X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

"York University Study Reveals Evolution of Lava Planets"

Ancient Micrometeorites: Earth's Hidden History

College Athletes Embrace Influencer Roles: Study

Autonomous Lawn Mowers: Transforming Turf Care

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Microsoft Authenticator Users Alerted: Password Management Update

Microsoft Authenticator is ending password autofill soon. How to set up a passkey before Aug. 1

Dating App Tea Reports Cybersecurity Breach

Tea app takes messaging system offline after second security issue reported

Most U.S. Adults Use AI for Information Search

How US adults are using AI, according to AP-NORC polling

Spotify Reports 12% Surge in Paying Subscribers

Spain's Competition Watchdog Expands Apple App Store Probe

Spain competition watchdog expands probe into Apple

Spotify sees 12% rise in paid subscribers

Scientists Disrupt Atomic Order for High-Performance Battery Anodes

Targeted atomic disorder boosts battery charging speed and long-term stability

Overcoming Faulty Ranking Mechanisms in AI Leaderboards

Why AI leaderboards are inaccurate and how to fix them

Artificial Intelligence Agents Show Strong Software Development Skills

AI agent autonomously solves complex cybersecurity challenges using text-based tools

Robotic Arm with Assistive Grippers Aids Pizza Making

Robotic arm with soft grippers helps people with disabilities make pizza and more

Technology Adoption Life Cycle: Innovators Embrace, Laggards Follow

'AI veganism': Some people's issues with AI parallel vegans' concerns about diet

Offshore Wind Power Potential Exceeds U.S. Electricity Demand

Great Lakes offshore wind could power the region and beyond

New Study: Flying Small Quadrotors in Air Ducts

Designing drones that can fly in air ducts

Moon Landings Unveil Lunar Dust Mystery

Solving a moon mystery helps game out future landings

Sustainable Energy Piles for Urban Buildings

New Method for Manufacturing Computer Chips

Optimizing geothermal foundations in soft clay for urban buildings

UV-light method cuts computer chip manufacturing steps in half

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Friday, 10 May 2019

Dyson driving towards all-terrain electric car

James Dyson, famed for his vacuum cleaners, hinted Thursday that his electric car would be more energy efficient than rivals—and with "very large wheels" for city and rough-terrain driving.

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A multi-scale body-part mask guided attention network for person re-identification

Person re-identification entails the automated identification of the same person in multiple images from different cameras and with different backgrounds, angles or positions. Despite recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), person re-identification remains a highly challenging task, particularly due to the many variations in a person's pose, as well as other differences associated with lighting, occlusion, misalignment and background clutter.

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Making a case for robotic objects as anger outlets

Coochi coo. Robots have undergone impressive designs and engineering for social use, manifested in puppy-like robots with expressive, blinking eyes, to little space robots. These little pals and helpers appeal to the home-confined elderly and children. These are social robots designed to understand and respond to cues.

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Storm water banking could help Texas manage floods and droughts

Massive, destructive floods such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 are a stark reality in Texas, but so are prolonged ground-cracking droughts.

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How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral science—unless we act fast

Uber's business model is incredibly simple: It's a platform that facilitates exchanges between people. And Uber's been incredibly successful at it, almost eliminating the transaction costs of doing business in everything from shuttling people around town to delivering food.

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Research spotlights the role of cover crops in slowing herbicide resistance

An article in the most recent edition of the journal Weed Science shows that cover crops can play an important role in slowing the development of herbicide resistant weeds.

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Show your hands: Smartwatches sense hand activity

We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing what our bodies are doing, be it walking, driving or sleeping. But what about our hands? It turns out that smartwatches, with a few tweaks, can detect a surprising number of things your hands are doing.

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Hummingbird robot uses AI to soon go where drones can't

What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect?

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Rideshare firms have snarled up San Francisco: study

The ride-hailing era ushered in by Uber and Lyft once promised to complement public transit, reduce car ownership and alleviate congestion.

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A friction reduction system for deformable robotic fingertips

Researchers at Kanazawa University have recently developed a friction reduction system based on a lubricating effect, which could have interesting soft robotics applications. Their system, presented in a paper published in Taylor & Francis' Advanced Robotics journal, could aid the development of robots that can efficiently manipulate objects under both dry and wet conditions.

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AI develops human-like number sense – taking us a step closer to building machines with general intelligence

Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill, a modern computer can make millions of calculations in a mere second. Humans, however, have an innate and intuitive number sense that helped us, among other things, to build computers in the first place.

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We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis

Humans are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction event, with an estimated one million species at risk of extinction.

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Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality

Pornography is ubiquitous, highly accessible, and vivid. It is increasingly influential in the sex lives and sexual development of consumers around the world.

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Modern economic theory explains prehistoric Mediterranean societies

A Florida State University professor's research suggests a theory by famed economist Thomas Piketty on present-day wealth inequality actually explains a lot about how smaller-scale societies in the prehistoric Mediterranean developed.

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Microsoft to turn next chapter in raising talk to conversations

On Monday at Build 2019, Microsoft's annual conference for developers, the company showed off the technology for a conversational engine, to integrate with voice assistant Cortana.

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Scientists discover a new class of single-atom nanozymes

Nanozymes—catalytic nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics—offer the advantage of low cost, high stability, tunable catalytic activity and ease of mass production. For these reasons, they have been widely applied in biosensing, therapeutics and environmental protection.

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Study finds high levels of abnormally fast brain waves in mild brain injury

A new study funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Navy finds that veterans and service members with a history of combat-related mild traumatic brain injury—compared with those in a control group—have much higher levels of abnormally fast brain waves in a region that plays a key role in consciousness.

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How sea level rise affects birds in coastal forests

When saltwater inundates coastal forests as sea levels rise, it kills salt-sensitive trees, leaving "ghost forests" of bare snags behind. A new study from North Carolina State University explores how changes in vegetation affect coastal bird species.

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