Category: 7. SciTech
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What is creativity without sweat and tears? — Harvard Gazette
Creative output has traditionally required effort — hours spent staring down the empty page, crumpled drafts tossed in the trash. But through years or decades of dedicated toil, one could achieve mastery and derive meaning from one’s accomplishments. Generative AI is poised to change that…
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Scientific study suggests destruction of the Amazon rainforest directly impacts human health
A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the
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Here’s what octopuses use each of their eight tentacles for
While humans typically favour a dominant hand, new research reveals that octopuses, despite lacking a single dominant arm, show a clear…
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Octopuses Use Their Arms in Surprisingly Similar Ways to Us : ScienceAlert
Octopuses are mostly made up of sucker-studded arms, each one packed with muscles and nerves that enable them to engage with their environment in ways no other invertebrate has mastered.
But how octopuses negotiate their sprawling mass of semi-autonomous limbs remains a mystery. A new study…
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US foreign aid cuts could cause over 2 million extra TB deaths in 5 years, study warns
America’s foreign aid freeze could cause more than two million additional deaths from tuberculosis across the next five years, scientists…
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Scientists analysed pesticide use across Europe. Here’s what they found
Increased demand for food due to population growth, together with a reduction in suitable arable land, has made pesticides essential for…
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These dancing spiders have ‘dark DNA’ – and it could change the way we understand evolution
The unusual DNA of a particular type of spider is fascinating scientists, as they think it may hold the key to diverse evolution…
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Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat rare diseases, to adapt crops to withstand the extremes of climate change, or even to change the color of a spider’s web. But the greatest hope is that this technology will…
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Ancient burial site upends what we knew about Stone Age women and children
The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women…
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