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Octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to seasonal temperature shifts

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Octopuses don't thermoregulate, so their powerful brains are exposed to -- and potentially threatened by -- changes in temperature. Researchers report that two-spot octopuses adapt to seasonal temperature shifts by producing different neural proteins under warm versus cool conditions. The octopuses achieve this by editing their RNA, the messenger molecule between DNA and proteins.

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Why diversity and inclusion needs to be at the forefront of future AI

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by Inês Hipólito /Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: shutterstock.com Inês Hipólito is a highly accomplished researcher, recognized for her work in esteemed journals and contributions as a co-editor. She has received research awards including the prestigious Talent Grant from the University of Amsterdam in 2021. After her PhD, she held positions at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Film Review: A Man Called Otto

The New Social Worker

The film opens six months after Otto’s cherished wife Sonya has died. In flashbacks, we learn how Sonya and Otto met, all they loved about each other, and the crisis they faced together. Marisol and other neighbors take an interest in him.

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7 Mind-Blowing Ways Smart Homes Use Data to Save Your Money

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is changing our lives in tremendous ways. One of the most significant changes has been the invention of smart homes. Market analysts expect that the market for smart homes will be $worth 581 billion by 2032. Think about this for a moment: what if your house could think for you? Better yet, what if it could think about you? Imagine a world where your home understands your habits, preferences, and even your routine, then uses this information to cut costs and save you money.

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Colorful fresh foods improve athletes' vision

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Nutrition is an important part of any top athlete's training program. And now, a new study proposes that supplementing the diet of athletes with colorful fruits and vegetables could improve their visual range. The paper examines how a group of plant compounds that build up in the retina, known as macular pigments, work to improve eye health and functional vision.

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Science shows why our taste in music can’t be siloed into catch-all genres

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By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Music genres have long been used to describe peoples’ musical taste. Now, a team of scientists has examined music tastes of a broad German sample and found that it is not sufficient to know what genres people like to describe their musical taste. The researchers also found certain musical tastes may be connected to specific socio-demographic and personality variables of people who like the same genres.

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QR Codes Leverage the Benefits of Big Data in Education

Smart Data Collective

The field of academia is more dependent on big data than ever before. Educational institutions reportedly spent over $13 billion on big data in 2020. Expenditures on big data in academia are projected to be worth over $57 billion by 2030. As colleges and other educational institutions invest more heavily in big data, they are going to take advantage of different forms of technology that help them leverage it more effectively.

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Without fully implementing net-zero pledges, the world will miss climate goals

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Without more legally binding and well-planned net-zero policies, the world is highly likely to miss key climate targets.

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Frontiers announces membership of STM 

Frontiers

Gold open access publisher Frontiers has announced that it has become a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, better known as STM. Frontiers has been involved in various initiatives with STM over the years, and more actively last year as a member of the working group on research integrity. Frontiers has contributed to the group’s development of new paper mill detection tools, in collaboration with a number of other publishers The move to full m

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Podcast from Washington: Debt Ceiling/One Health

The NACCHO Podcast Series

In this week’s podcast, the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Adriane Casalotti, Chief of Government and Public Affairs, and Lauren Mastroberardino, Government Affairs Senior Specialist, provided an update on the debt ceiling, which has been suspended until January 1, 2025, as well as detail on some of the spending limits and claw-backs of previously appropriated funds.

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The Role of Data Analytics in Football Performance

Smart Data Collective

We have talked extensively about the many industries that have been impacted by big data. many of our articles have centered around the role that data analytics and artificial intelligence has played in the financial sector. However, many other industries have also been affected by advances in big data technology. The sports industry is among them. The Sports Analytics Market is expected to be worth over $22 billion by 2030.

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How chronic stress drives the brain to crave comfort food

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Stress can override natural satiety cues to drive more food intake and boost cravings for sweets.

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New high-tech helmets may protect American football players from debilitating concussions

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by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Evidence is mounting that head impacts in American football can lead to devastating neurological illness. Scientists searching for ways to protect players have developed a helmet containing liquid shock absorbers that cuts the impact of blows to the head by a third compared to existing models.

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CDOH at local level in a single side

Sheffield DPH

Greg, Im not quite getting this CDOH thing, please explain. this is a guide through (rather than prose) on main points to make, methods and tactics on CDOH at local level. See thread also If I had to write a single page…. (I mightn’t be able to) but would be thus – in no particular order: why. 2/3 of us are overweight. Wont be solved by treatment (will take 250 yrs to sort) or personal responsibility (hopelessly inadequate / what industry argue for).

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Seeing inside a dying brain: Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

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By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. What happens to the brain when we die? The mystery of what happens in the brain when we die has fascinated humans for centuries.

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Frontiers Forum Live 2023: Accelerating and mobilizing open science for global challenges

Frontiers

This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers together in-person and virtually, united in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster. The Frontiers Forum is where researchers, policymakers, and other experts from around the world discuss science-led solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet.

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Robot 'chef' learns to recreate recipes from watching food videos

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Researchers have trained a robotic 'chef' to watch and learn from cooking videos, and recreate the dish itself.

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Taurine may be a key to longer and healthier life

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A study finds that deficiency of taurine, a molecule produced in our bodies, drives aging, and taurine supplements can improve health and increase lifespan in animals.

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Chatgpt designs a robot

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Poems, essays and even books -- is there anything the OpenAI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are there risks?

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Breakthrough: Scientists develop artificial molecules that behave like real ones

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Scientists have developed synthetic molecules that resemble real organic molecules. A collaboration of researcher can now simulate the behavior of real molecules by using artificial molecules.

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Water molecules define the materials around us

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A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, 'hydration solids.' The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange behavior of spores, dormant bacterial cells.

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Study shows promising treatment for tinnitus

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A double-blind randomized clinical trial of a device aimed at silencing the phantom sounds of tinnitus has yielded promising results.

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Pride Month 2023: Article collections celebrating the LGBTQ+ community

Frontiers

Each June it’s pride month, a celebration of the LGBTQ community and their many achievements. To join in on the celebrations, we have put together Research Topics. Read about the amazing research done by scientists from across the globe. With more than 820,000 collective views, researchers explored topics such as barriers to workplace equality , co-parenting fathers , perspectives on cancer issues affecting LGBTQ communities , and anti-transgender prejudice.

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Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans

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Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits -- until now.

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Lost giants: New study reveals the abundance decline of African megafauna

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A groundbreaking new paper focuses on the size and abundance of living and fossil African large mammals, shedding light on the ecological dynamics behind the decline of these iconic creatures. The findings challenge previous assumptions about the causes of megafaunal extinctions in Africa and provide new insights into the restructuring of ecosystems over millions of years.

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Researchers demonstrate secure information transfer using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light

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Researchers have demonstrated the principle of using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light to encode information and enable its secure transmission.

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Dentists identify new bacterial species involved in tooth decay

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Large study in children reveals Selenomonas sputigena as a key partner of Streptococcus in cavity formation.

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Webb Space Telescope detects universe's most distant complex organic molecules

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Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth -- the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to the capabilities of the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and careful analyses from the research team, a new study lends critical insight into the complex chemical interactions that occur in the first galaxies in the early universe.

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Early universe crackled with bursts of star formation, Webb shows

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Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the largest programs in Webb's first year of science is the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, which will devote about 32 days of telescope time to uncover and characterize faint, distant galaxies.

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Diet tracking: How much is enough to lose weight?

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Keeping track of everything you eat and drink in a day is a tedious task that is tough to keep up with over time. Unfortunately, dutiful tracking is a vital component for successful weight loss, however, a new study finds that perfect tracking is not needed to achieve significant weight loss.

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Greenhouse gas emissions at 'an all-time high' -- and it is causing an unprecedented rate of global warming, say scientists

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Human-induced warming, largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels, reached an average of 1.14°C for the most recent decade (2013 to 2022) above pre-industrial levels. This is up from 1.07°C between 2010 and 2019. Human-induced warming is now increasing at a pace of over 0.2°C per decade. The analysis also found that greenhouse gas emissions were 'at an all-time high', with human activity resulting in the equivalent of 54 (+/-5.3) gigatonnes (or billion metric tonnes) of carbon dioxide being r

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New study could help unlock 'game-changing' batteries for electric vehicles and aviation

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Researchers have revealed the mechanisms that cause lithium metal solid-state batteries to fail. The new insights could help overcome the technical issues with solid-state batteries, unlocking a game-changing technology for electric vehicles and aviation.

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Dying stars' cocoons could be new source of gravitational waves

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Although astrophysicists theoretically should be able to detect gravitational waves from a single, non-binary source, they have yet to uncover these elusive signals. Now researchers suggest looking at a new, unexpected and entirely unexplored place: The turbulent, energetic cocoons of debris that surround dying massive stars.

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Elusive planets play 'hide and seek' with CHEOPS

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Astronomers have clearly identified the existence of four new exoplanets. The four mini-Neptunes are smaller and cooler, and more difficult to find than the so-called Hot Jupiter exoplanets which have been found in abundance.

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