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Several AI chatbots were tested to see how well they could perform legal reasoning and tasks used by human lawyers in everyday practice - GPT-4 performed the best, but still wasn't great

A new study confirms that football wide receivers wearing jersey numbers between 10 and 19 are perceived as slimmer than those wearing 80-89, even with identical body sizes. This phenomenon suggests our brains use statis...

Volunteers judged cartoon American football players to be slimmer when they had a lower number on their jersey

Cannabis was one of the first crops that humans cultivated about 12,000 years ago. But medicinal and psychoactive uses are much more recent

SpaceX just set a new mark for most orbital launches in a single year, breaking the company's record from 2022

A recent study reveals a link between early-life concussions and faster cognitive decline in later years. Conducted on World War II veteran twins, the research showed that twins with a history of traumatic brain injury (...

Archaeologists discovered four well-preserved Roman swords that were likely hidden in a cave in Israel during a revolt.

A rise in RSV cases in Florida and Georgia signals that the nationwide RSV season will soon begin.

Researchers developed a minuscule device, akin to a grain of rice in size, that can simultaneously test numerous treatments for challenging brain cancers like gliomas. Implanted into a patient's tumor during surgery and ...

New research unveils a probable unique human ability to recognize and remember sequential information. Despite being our closest relatives, bonobos struggle to learn the order of stimuli in the same manner as humans.

The humble neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter, plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To fully explain how our universe came to be, we n...

Sleep deprivation doesn't just leave you tired--it harms the brain and elevates the risk for diseases like Alzheimer's. Researchers delving into how this occurs have made a breakthrough by identifying a protein, pleiotro...

Researchers identified Microfold cells, or M cells, typically seen in intestines, in the thymus--a vital organ for immune system development. These thymic M cells are similar to their intestinal counterparts and may play...

Days of mass death on Earth are dramatically captured by Michael Benton in his book, Extinctions. It's well-told and gripping, but real palaeontology afficionados may crave newer stories

The World Health Organization caused an uproar last month when it held its first global summit on traditional and complementary medicines. We need to establish what works and what doesn't when it comes to these therapies...

Evidence shows our impact on the planet started long before 1950, the date chosen by the Anthropocene Working Group for the start of the new epoch, so I resigned from the group in protest, says Erle Ellis

The life of polymath John von Neumann is woven into a strange work of fiction by rising literary star Benjamín Labatut that comes with a serious warning about the consequences of science

Lewis Burnett's powerful photographs of a saltwater crocodile, Risso's dolphins and a reef manta ray are part of a collection that won him the Portfolio prize in the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the ...

A recent study highlights a new benefit of quality sleep: deterring opioid relapse. In the study, rats undergoing oxycodone withdrawal received an experimental insomnia treatment.

This summer, the AI division of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. Microsoft has been appointed as Meta's preferred partner on Llama 2, which will be available through the Windows operating system. Meta...

Freeze casting processes can be used to produce highly porous and hierarchically structured materials that have a large surface area. They are suitable for a wide variety of applications, as electrodes for batteries, cat...

Researchers unearthed fresh gene variations related to Alzheimer's disease risk, potentially paving the way for predictive blood tests. The study, targeting the APOE gene, identified 15 new variations linked to Alzheimer...