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Training Machines To Learn More Like Humans Do

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

Chemists’ Technique Reveals Whether Antibodies Neutralize SARS-Cov-2

The method could enable a rapid test to determine whether individuals are producing antibodies that help protect against Covid-19.

How Attachment Styles Influence Romantic Relationships

Columbia psychiatrist’s groundbreaking book returns to the best-seller list 11 years after publication as attachment theory gains popularity on social media

Like Ancient Mariners, Ancestors Of Prochlorococcus Microbes Rode Out To Sea On Exoskeleton Particles

A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.

Gene-Editing Technique Could Speed Up Study Of Cancer Mutations

With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.

Smell Loss with COVID-19 Begins in the Nuclear Hearts of the Nose’s Sensory Cells

Research collaboration teases out cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie one of pandemic’s signature symptoms, with implications for other health conditions

Study Reveals New Ways For Exotic Quasiparticles To “Relax”

A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.

Beetle Iridescence a Deceptive Form of Warning Colouration, Study Finds

A new study published today in Animal Behaviour shows for the first time that brilliant iridescence and gloss found in some animals can have a protective function by working as a form of deceptive warning colouration, and that it is the key feature of iridescence, its changing colours, that is important for this effect.

Researchers Discover Overlooked Jurassic Park of Lizards

Scientists have found that a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakes – known as squamates – diverged in the Jurassic period, 50 million years earlier than previously thought.

Researchers Find Concerns For Animals Tied To Same Habitats

Like humans, wild animals often return to the same places to eat, walk on the same paths to travel and use the same places to raise their young

Viral Shedding Ebbs Over Time With HSV-1 Genital Infections

Among people with HSV-1 genital infections, shedding of the virus declined rapidly during the first year.

Deep Learning Tool Identifies Bacteria In Micrographs

Omnipose is trained to recognize bacteria of all shapes and sizes in mixed bacterial cultures.

Video App Eases Methadone Dose-Confirmation Burden

A small pilot study suggests that the technology meets the demand for a clinician to witness a patient’s daily dose.

Can Smoking Heroin Be Less Risky Than Injecting?

A study recently published in Harm Reduction Journal examined a Seattle-based organization’s efforts to introduce heroin pipes as a means to diminish harms associated with injection drug use.

New Insights On Antibody Responses To Omicron Variants

Understanding antibody responses will be key to offset coronavirus variants' evasion of earlier immunity.

How Climate Change Will Affect Plants

We human beings need plants for our survival. Everything we eat consists of plants or animals that depend on plants somewhere along the food chain. Plants also form the backbone of natural ecosystems, and they absorb about 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide emitted by humans each year. But as the impacts of climate change worsen, how are higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and warmer temperatures affecting the plant world?

Good Sleep Can Increase Women’s Work Ambitions

If women want to lean in to work, they may first want to lie down for a good night’s rest.

Study: Covid-19 Has Reduced Diverse Urban Interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.

Consumers Pay More by Misunderstanding Cumulative Discounts

When it comes to evaluating the cumulative savings of discounts over time, people often choose the least financially beneficial option and miss out on potential savings, according to research from the WSU Carson College of Business and the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.