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Robot, can you say 'cheese'?

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What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? Or a better question, how does it know to get you to smile back?

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Enjoy More Data-Driven Capabilities For Migrating to Drupal 9

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Drupal 9 has a lot of great AI features, but you have to set it up correctly to enjoy their benefits.

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Empowering Character and Maturity To Resolve Societal Burnout

The New Social Worker

The essential link between personal development and trustworthy leadership must be pointed out. In families, work settings, in communities, on boards, and in elected office, character and maturity must be selected to address societal burnout.

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National Public Health Week celebration kicks off Monday

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Free APHA public health events run April 1-7

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Persian plateau unveiled as crucial hub for early human migration out of Africa

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A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during the early stages of their migration out of Africa. It highlights the period between 70,000 to 45,000 years ago when human populations did not uniformly spread across Eurasia, leaving a gap in our understanding of their whereabouts during this time frame.

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Tonya Duhart Miller, Associate Director of Business Operations at PHII, celebrates International Women’s Month

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As March marks Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), Task Force women in leadership reflect on their leadership philosophy, who inspires them, and what keeps them motivated to work in public health. The post Tonya Duhart Miller, Associate Director of Business Operations at PHII, celebrates International Women’s Month appeared first on PHII.

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Nocardiosis: ‘The Great Imitator’ That’s Often Misdiagnosed

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Nocardiosis, labeled ‘The Great Imitator,’ is a bacterial infection that mimics the symptoms of many other illnesses, making it difficult to diagnose. Untreated, it can cause chronic and even severe disease. Read more on the GIDEON blog. The post Nocardiosis: ‘The Great Imitator’ That’s Often Misdiagnosed appeared first on GIDEON.

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New imaging method illuminates oxygen's journey in the brain

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A new bioluminescence imaging technique has created highly detailed, and visually striking, images of the movement of oxygen in the brains of mice. The method, which can be easily replicated by other labs, will enable researchers to more precisely study forms of hypoxia in the brain, such as the denial of oxygen to the brain that occurs during a stroke or heart attack.

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National Public Health Week celebration kicks off Monday

Public Health Newswire

Free APHA public health events run April 1-7

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Alcohol raises heart disease risk, particularly among women

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Young to middle-aged women who reported drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages per week--more than one per day, on average--were significantly more likely to develop coronary heart disease compared with those who drank less, finds a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session. The risk was highest among both men and women who reported heavy episodic drinking, or 'binge' drinking, and the link between alcohol and heart disease appears to be especially str

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Scientists extract genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth to illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuries

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Researchers have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, found in an Irish limestone cave. Genetic analyses of these microbiomes reveal major changes in the oral microenvironment from the Bronze Age to today. The teeth both belonged to the same male individual and also provided a snapshot of his oral health.

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Risk factors for faster aging in the brain revealed in new study

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Researchers have used data from UK Biobank participants to reveal that diabetes, traffic-related air pollution and alcohol intake are the most harmful out of 15 modifiable risk factors for dementia.

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Making long-term memories requires nerve-cell damage

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Just as you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, scientists have found that you can't make long-term memories without DNA damage and brain inflammation.

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Mechanism found to determine which memories last

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Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day's experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study proposes a mechanism that determines which memories are tagged as important enough to linger in the brain until sleep makes them permanent.

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A self-cleaning wall paint

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Beautiful white wall paint does not stay beautiful and white forever. Often, various substances from the air accumulate on its surface. This can be a desired effect because it makes the air cleaner for a while -- but over time, the color changes and needs to be renewed. Now, special titanium oxide nanoparticles have been developed that can be added to ordinary, commercially available wall paint to establish self-cleaning power: The nanoparticles are photocatalytically active, they can use sunlig

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Researchers show that introduced tardigrade proteins can slow metabolism in human cells

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Tardigrade proteins are potential candidates in technologies centered on slowing the aging process and in long-term storage of human cells.

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Want to feel young? Protect your sleep

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Do you ever find yourself longing for the energy and vitality of your younger years? Feeling young is not just a matter of perception it is actually related to objective health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that feeling younger than one s actual age is associated with longer, healthier lives. There is even support for subjective age to predict actual brain age, with those feeling younger having younger brains.

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Researchers turn back the clock on cancer cells to offer new treatment paradigm

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Scientists reversed an aggressive cancer, reverting malignant cells towards a more normal state. Rhabdoid tumors are an aggressive cancer which is missing a key tumor suppressor protein. Scientists discovered that removing a second protein from cancer cells already experiencing tumor suppressor loss can reverse cancer cell identity.

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The world is one step closer to secure quantum communication on a global scale

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Researchers have brought together two Nobel prize-winning research concepts to advance the field of quantum communication. Scientists can now efficiently produce nearly perfect entangled photon pairs from quantum dot sources.

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Common household chemicals pose new threat to brain health, study finds

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Researchers have provided fresh insight into the dangers some common household chemicals pose to brain health. They suggest that chemicals found in a wide range of items, from furniture to hair products, may be linked to neurological conditions.

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A solar cell you can bend and soak in water

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Researchers have developed an organic photovoltaic film that is both waterproof and flexible, allowing a solar cell to be put onto clothes and still function correctly after being rained on or even washed.

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Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage

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Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed.

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DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains, findings to aid service member IDs going back to World War II

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New DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, fragmentary bones left at the Harewood family cemetery in Charles Town, West Virginia, in the mid-1800s.

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Hidden geometry of learning: Neural networks think alike

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Engineers have uncovered an unexpected pattern in how neural networks -- the systems leading today's AI revolution -- learn, suggesting an answer to one of the most important unanswered questions in AI: why these methods work so well. The result not only illuminates the inner workings of neural networks, but gestures toward the possibility of developing hyper-efficient algorithms that could classify images in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.

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Sweet success: Sugarcane's complex genetic code cracked

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Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane's genetic code could help researchers develop more resilient and productive crops, with implications for both sugar production and biofuels.

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Beethoven's genes reveal low predisposition for beat synchronization

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Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a rather low genetic predisposition for beat synchronization, according to a new study.

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More exposure to artificial, bright, outdoor night-time light linked to higher stroke risk

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Air pollution and night-time outdoor light each were associated with harmful effects on brain health, finds new study.

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Long-period oscillations control the Sun's differential rotation

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The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations discovered in 2021 play a crucial role in controlling the Sun's rotational pattern. The long-period oscillations are analogous to the baroclinically unstable waves in Earth's atmosphere that shape the weather.

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Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars

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Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short lives.

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Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way's central black hole

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A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarized light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black ho

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Distant 'space snowman' unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become 'ice bombs'

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Researchers found that the double-lobed object, which is officially named Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth and resembles a snowman, may have ancient ices stored deep within it from when the object first formed billions of years ago.

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Old immune systems revitalized in mouse study, improving vaccine response

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Those with aging immune systems struggle to fight off novel viruses and respond weakly to vaccination. Researchers were able to revitalize the immune system in mice.

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Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica's ice sheets. An international research team has now used sediments taken from the South Pacific to reconstruct the flow speed in the last 5.3 million years. Their data show that during glacial periods, the current slowed; during interglacials, it accelerated.

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Wild bird gestures 'after you'

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A small-bird species, the Japanese tit (Parus minor), uses wing movements as a gesture to convey the message 'after you,' according to new research. When a mating pair arrives at their nest box with food, they will wait outside on perches. One will then often flutter its wings toward the other, apparently indicating for the latter to enter first. The researchers say that this discovery challenges the previous belief that gestural communication is prominent only in humans and great apes, signific

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