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Wildfires can release toxic metal particles from soils, study finds
Frequency of large fires in metal-rich landscapes. Fires of satellite origin over an area greater than 2,023 ha in widespread...
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Patients must get pregnant to treat endometriosis despite lack of evidence, study finds
Credit: BMC Women's Health (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s12905-023-02794-2 Research shows that patients with endometriosis are advised to plan a pregnancy to...
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Genetic ‘protection’ against depression was no match for pandemic stress, study of freshmen finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Experiencing a historic pandemic while managing the stress of the first year of college sent a...
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Study Shows Large Language Models Can Strategically Deceive Users When Under Pressure
GPT-4 is taking a misaligned step by engaging in insider trading. Credit: Scheurer et al. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are...
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New plasma instability sheds light on the nature of cosmic rays
Simulation of cosmic rays opposing a background plasma and exciting a plasma instability. The distribution of background particles responding to...
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New study sheds light on how much methane is produced by Arctic lakes and wetlands
Credit: Ethan D. Kyzivat When it comes to greenhouse gases, methane is one of the biggest contributors. Not only is...
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One-pot nanosheet method catalyzes a green energy revolution
The “one-pot” nanosheet method is catalyzing a green energy revolution. Credit: Minoru Osada A research group from the Institute of...
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Environmental stress rather than genetics influenced height differences in early Neolithic people: study
Migrations of the first farmers to Europe. Credit: Human behavior (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01756-w According to an article published in Human...
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A new model that allows robots to re-identify and track human users
Perception pipeline: (a) acquisition of RGB and depth images; (b) person detection via Yolact++ (see Sect. III-A); (c) person re-identification...
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TCP J1822 is a symbiotic star, according to observations
Light curve of TCP J1822. Credit: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3121 Using the Himalayan Chandra...
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