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Women exhibit less manipulative personality traits in more gender-equal countries. In countries with lower levels of gender equality, women scored higher on Machiavellianism, potentially reflecting increased reliance on manipulative strategies to navigate restrictive or resource-scarce environments.

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New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying | The paper shows Anthropic’s model, Claude, strategically misleading its creators and attempting to steal its own weights during the training process in order to avoid being modified.

New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying | The pa...

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Building muscle strength and mass may help reduce depression risk, study suggests. Adults with stronger grip strength and greater muscle mass were less likely to experience depression. Targeting muscle development through exercise may be an effective strategy to improve mental health.

Building muscle strength and mass may help reduce ...

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Sleep apnea linked to brain changes: Individuals with breathing issues during sleep may have an enlarged hippocampus, responsible for memory and thinking, and alterations in the brain's white matter, a common sign of reduced brain health associated with aging

Sleep apnea linked to brain changes: Individuals w...

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Dark energy doesn't exist, according to new evidence. Physicists are challenging the status quo, using improved analysis of supernovae light curves to show the Universe is expanding in a more varied, “lumpier” way - and that the idea of “dark energy” isn't needed at all.

Dark energy doesn't exist, according to new eviden...

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3D modelling of "Lucy" suggests Australopithecus Afarensis could not run as fast as humans, reaching speeds of only 4.97m/s vs. humans 7.9m/s

3D modelling of "Lucy" suggests Australopithecus A...

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Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed | With a processing speed a billion times faster than nature, chip-based laser neuron could help advance AI tasks such as pattern recognition and sequence prediction

Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell fu...

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Ritalin on the road: ADHD drug methylphenidate improves driving performance | The medication reduced lane weaving and speed variation, while eye movements remained almost unaffected.

Ritalin on the road: ADHD drug methylphenidate imp...

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Dancing lowers the depression associated with Parkinson disease, and the benefits can be seen in multiple ways. Research found after each dance class, reported depression rates dropped, and the effect was cumulative from class to class, with significant improvements after 8 months.

Dancing lowers the depression associated with Park...

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Younger people are more likely to experience cybercrime but when older people are victims they lose more money and are more often hit repeatedly. The researchers say it's possible losses from cybercrime for older people were underreported due to shame or fear of not being taken seriously.

Younger people are more likely to experience cyber...

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Syphilis had its roots in the Americas

Syphilis had its roots in the Americas

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More people are now living without running water in US cities since the global financial crisis

More people are now living without running water i...

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'Fat tax': Unsurprisingly, dictating plane tickets by body weight was more popular with passengers under 160 lb, finds a new study. Overall, people under 160 lb were most in favor of factoring body weight into ticket prices, with 71.7% happy to see excess pounds or total weight policies introduced.

'Fat tax': Unsurprisingly, dictating plane tickets...

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Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid. UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues to our Solar System’s origins.

Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid. U...

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Physicists magnetize a material with light. The technique provides researchers with a powerful tool for controlling magnetism, and could help in designing faster, smaller, more energy-efficient memory chips.

Physicists magnetize a material with light. The te...

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Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung and Colon Cancers. A review of 3,000 studies also suggests these minute plastic air particles may be causing male and female infertility.

Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung an...

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Almost all leading large language models or “chatbots” show signs of mild cognitive impairment in tests widely used to spot early signs of dementia, study finds: Findings challenge assumption that AI will soon replace human doctors

Almost all leading large language models or “chatb...

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Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism

Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of a Third...

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