[ad_1] AI Ready to Revolutionize Scientific Gatekeeping as Peer Review Crisis Looms The crushing weight of millions of academic papers awaiting expert evaluation could soon push the scientific community toward an AI-assisted future, according to a prominent medical journal editor. In an editorial published this week in Critical Care Medicine, a former top editor at…
[ad_1] Why Was the Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand So Devastating? A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings built to withstand temblors By Robin George Andrews edited by Andrea Thompson A resident carries belongings over debris next to a damaged building in Naypyidaw…
[ad_1] Generative AI (Gen AI) tools like ChatGPT have become an ever-present part of many people’s personal and working lives. And whether they are causing more harm than good to our cognitive skills or problem solving is a growing concern. Experts are worried that dependence on Gen AI is making users who lean heavily on…
[ad_1] The sun has somewhat surprised forecasters today with a dramatic X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region. The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR4046 and was accompanied by a spectacular filament eruption and coronal mass ejection (CME) — an expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the sun. When CMEs…
[ad_1] Chinese scientists have developed a remarkable new material that switches between soft and rigid states almost instantaneously with temperature changes, potentially revolutionizing everything from protective gear to robotics. The hydrogel, created by researchers at Donghua University, transforms from a rubber-like flexibility to rigid armor in mere seconds when heated, then rapidly returns to its…
[ad_1] COVID Research Funding to Be Slashed, NIH Documents Show Studies on COVID, climate change and South Africa are on the latest list of terminated grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to updated documents obtained by Nature By Max Kozlov & Nature magazine Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (greenish…
[ad_1] With popular genetic testing company 23andMe filing for bankruptcy, what does the future of ancestry DNA look like? A team of researchers from the University of Michigan says it is going to look more like a movie than a portrait, thanks to a new statistical model that can be used to trace ancestry in…
[ad_1] Doom is the daddy of first-person shooters and one of the most influential games of all time, so we battled through hell and put together these lists of the Doom games in order, both by chronological timeline and release date. Doom: The Dark Ages is set to arrive on May 15, 2025, and we…
[ad_1] A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28 at about 12:50 p.m. local time, leaving at least 144 people confirmed dead so far and triggering widespread damage across both Myanmar and Thailand. Buildings collapsed, roads broke and at least one dam and a bridge crumbled. A magnitude 6.4 aftershock followed just…
[ad_1] Your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease depends largely on your genes and your age, but that doesn’t mean it’s out of your hands. As a new study suggests, you might have more influence on the matter than you think. The study’s authors introduce another key indicator for Alzheimer’s risk that may warrant more attention:…