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AI-powered course design is helping adult students build real job skills
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (800+ words) A new study shows how AI integrated coursework helps adult learners gain career ready skills in environmental science. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The research team designed an introductory environmental science course over five weeks for nontraditional adult learners who have been out…...
Children only need small daily doses of peanuts to gain protection, study finds
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1094+ words) A first of its kind Canadian trial finds that children with peanut allergy can gain strong protection from very small daily peanut doses, cutting side effects and making treatment more realistic for families. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) In Canada, nearly 2 per cent…...
Doctors Stunned as Baby Survives Full-Term Pregnancy Beating 1-in-a Million Odds
3+ week, 3+ day ago (773+ words) A joyful surprise unfolded in Los Angeles when a baby boy was born under circumstances so rare that even veteran physicians paused in disbelief. The child, named Ryu, developed entirely outside his mother's uterus, a medical situation that rarely leads…...
New study links classic video game play to increased happiness
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (831+ words) A new study finds that familiar video games like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi can spark childlike wonder, increase happiness, and reduce burnout risk in young adults. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) Researchers at Imperial College London…...
15-year-old physicist sets his sights on creating 'super-humans"
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (798+ words) A Belgian teenager has earned a doctorate in quantum physics at 15 and now aims to tackle human aging using artificial intelligence. (CREDIT: Lydia Simons) Life expectancy has climbed steadily over the past century, but few people talk seriously about eliminating…...
Scientists discover tiny parts of DNA that explain why diseases hit people differently
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1092+ words) A SickKids led study has found that tiny repeated DNA segments called short tandem repeats vary not only in length but also in sequence, especially near brain related genes and across different populations. This hidden variation may help explain why…...
Toddler born deaf hears for the first time after groundbreaking gene therapy
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (998+ words) A 3-year-old born deaf now hears naturally after a world-first gene therapy restores her hearing. (CREDIT: Jo and James Sandy) When she was born, doctors informed Opal Sandy's parents that their child would never hear. At the age of 11 months,…...
Ancient lead exposure may have helped early humans evolve language and intelligence
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (851+ words) Alysson Muotri, Ph.D. Lead exposure shaped human evolution, influencing brain development and the rise of language. (CREDIT: Kyle Dykes/UC San Diego Health Sciences) Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already…...
Creativity and ADHD are linked through a shared mechanism: mind wandering
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (849+ words) Two major studies reveal that mind wandering and creativity are closely tied in ADHD. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) If you've ever caught yourself daydreaming when you're really supposed to be focusing, you might not have considered that time to be productive. Yet,…...
The growing risks from chatbots that act just like you
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (1128+ words) Researchers are teaching chatbots to roleplay as human users. The method makes AI more convincing than ever'and harder to distinguish from people. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Researchers are now showing that artificial intelligence can do something most people never thought about: convincingly…...