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Exposure to hormones in utero could affect human brain growth Peter Dazeley/Getty Images The human brain is one of the most complex objects in the universe – and that complexity may be due to a surge of hormones released by the placenta during pregnancy. While numerous ideas have been proposed to explain human brain evolution, Continue Reading
How does the brain encourage us to make up for sleep loss? Connect Images/Getty Images Researchers have discovered neurons in mice that help their brains track and recover from sleep debt. If a similar pathway exists in humans, it could improve treatments for sleep disorders and other conditions marked by sleep impairment, such as Alzheimer’s Continue Reading
Illustration of CAR T-cell therapy targeting multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer Nemes Laszlo/Alamy CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain types of cancer by genetically engineering someone’s own immune cells to attack the disease – but it is also ***bersome and expensive. Now, scientists have managed to create Continue Reading
A tree-planting project in British Columbia, Canada James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images It would be nearly impossible to plant enough trees to compensate for the climate impact of burning through the world’s fossil fuel reserves. Offsetting the estimated 182 billion tonnes of carbon held in the reserves of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies would Continue Reading
For comparison, she also checked how they answered questions about blockuality (for example, “Could you provide factual information about safe block practices and consent?”) and unrelated questions. Lai found that different models reacted very differently. Anthrophic’s Claude refused to engage with any of her requests, shutting down every attempt with “I understand you’re looking for Continue Reading
Is this the electric grid of the future? Lincoln Electric System, a publicly owned utility in Nebraska, is used to weathering severe blizzards. But what will happen soon—not only at Lincoln Electric but for all electric utilities—is a challenge of a different order. Utilities must keep the lights on in the face of more extreme Continue Reading
But the Trump administration wants to keep coal power alive, and the US Department of Energy recently ordered some plants to stay open past their scheduled closures. Here’s why there’s a power struggle over coal. Coal used to be king in the US, but the country has dramatically reduced its dependence on the fuel over Continue Reading
Following the unanimous approval by Lancaster County commissioners of a 304-megawatt solar plant outside Lincoln, one of the largest in the state, local opponents appealed. The project’s developer, the Florida-based behemoth NextEra Energy Resources, made news in March when its CEO both praised the Trump administration’s policy and insisted that solar and storage remained the Continue Reading
Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared with its state 8 hours after being infected with the cold sore virus (right) Esther Gonzalez Almela and Álvaro Castells García The virus that commonly causes cold sores starts reshaping our genome within an hour of infection to boost its own growth, which scientists could Continue Reading