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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

May 10, 2025

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative […]

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Virtual reality study reveals how burglars weigh risk and reward in response to environmental features

May 8, 2025

Criminology studies have posited theories based on the assumption that environmental features (e.g., street lighting, housing design) shape offenders’ perceptions of risk and reward. In a new study, researchers used virtual reality (VR) to determine […]

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Chinese research isn’t taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere, researchers find

May 8, 2025

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics […]

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France, EU leaders take aim at Trump in bid to lure US scientists

May 5, 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump’s policies on science on Monday, as the EU seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.This […]

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Saturday Citations: Cancer precursor cell identified; Webb spots more old galaxies

May 3, 2025

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a new way to solve higher polynomial equations, one of algebra’s oldest challenges. And climbing shoe abrasion releases […]

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French research center seeks to lure US-based scientists

May 2, 2025

France’s flagship scientific research center CNRS has launched a new initiative, in an apparent effort to lure US scientists hit by federal research spending cuts under President Donald Trump.This article is brought to you by […]

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Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

May 1, 2025

Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” as the opening to the first “Star Wars” movie, later labeled “Episode IV: […]

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Study finds engagement journalism training reduced ‘horse race’ political coverage, boosted more substantive content

April 29, 2025

News outlets across the country have been making efforts to engage more deeply with their communities and enhance transparency in their reporting. New research from the University of Kansas has found that journalism engagement training […]

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Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault cases

April 28, 2025

In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape as M23 rebels advanced through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to a United Nations High Commissioner for […]

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Saturday Citations: Is the universe a computational process? Plus: Psychological benefits of gaming

April 26, 2025

This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the melody of spoken language in English functions as its own, distinct language. And there was also depressing news! […]

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A temporary international market exit may lead to future global expansion

Clues to accounting fraud are hiding in plain sight

What shoppers say about sustainability doesn’t match how they spend, study finds

How a 5,000-year-old technology, politics, and culture led to modern wealth inequality

Your beliefs about money may reveal clues about your relationship

How to manage financial stress in uncertain times

Repealing the estate tax could create headaches for the rich, as well as worsen inequality

Digital clones of real models are revolutionizing fashion advertising

The Metaverse is changing consumer engagement forever, according to study

Probing the power and peril of office nicknames

Technology

AI model analyzes social media posts to detect signs of depression

LegoGPT can design stable structures using standard LEGOs from text prompts

Revolutionizing baseball training with AI-simulated pitchers

AI tools may be weakening the quality of published research, study warns

How AI helps push Candy Crush players through its most difficult puzzles

‘Tool for grifters’: AI deepfakes push bogus sexual cures

Google is rolling out its Gemini AI chatbot to kids under 13. It’s a risky move

AI-powered headphones offer group translation with voice cloning and 3D spatial audio

AI model translates text commands into motion for diverse robots and avatars

Commentary on article on coding hate speech offers nuanced look at limits of AI systems

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