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Children who feel their parents are less reliable take fewer risks essential to their learning and growth, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Trying something new is a risk every child takes as they explore and learn about the...
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A sensing leg that could improve the ability of legged robots to move across different terrains
The image on the left shows the CAD design in an exploded view with the silicone tab with the pattern...
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Using the world’s three most powerful particle accelerators to reveal the space-time geometry of quark matter
A montage of traces reconstructed from real collision events and photographs from the respective detectors, at Brookhaven National Laboratory and...
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Disabled PhD graduates are underpaid and underrepresented in US academia: study
Representation of PhDs with disabilities working in STEM fields across academic career stage categories. a, faculty rank. b, Occupancy status....
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Research links climate change, expansion of vampire bats and spread of rabies virus
Paige Van de Vuurst, a Ph.D. student in translational biology, medicine and health, is conducting field research on vampire bats...
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Pituitary vasopressin signaling realigns the body clock for recovery from jet lag: study
Credit: CC0 Public domain Jet lag is a head issue. What exactly is late has more to do with the...
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Researchers identify new small molecule inhibitor for use against Alzheimer’s disease
Chemical properties and synthesis of PB118. Credit: Advanced science (2023). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202304545 In people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the epigenetic...
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Natural products used in Ayurvedic treatments relieve symptoms of depression in fruit flies
The level of motivation of the fruit fly, the Drosophila, can be inferred based on whether or not it attempts...
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Infants are vulnerable to chickenpox earlier than previously thought, study finds
Credit: CC0 Public domain Infants are not protected against varicella-zoster virus, the virus that causes chickenpox, for several months before...
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New method uses crowdsourced feedback to train robots
HuGE leverages noisy, asynchronous feedback from multiple non-expert humans to train robot control policies directly on the real world. Credit:...
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