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Apes recognise old friends and family after decades apart, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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Apes recognise photos of friends and family they have not seen for more than 25 years, researchers have found. Some even respond enthusiastically to pictures of long-lost comrades, demonstrating the longest-lasting social memory ever documented outside humans. Professor Christopher Krupenye, from Johns Hopkins University, said it suggested not just familiarity, but that the primates keep…
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Aftershocks can occur decades to centuries on from original earthquakes, study says | Science & Tech News
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Aftershocks can occur “decades to centuries” on from an original earthquake, a new study has suggested. Researchers looked at the timing and clustering of earthquakes that followed a group of historical ones in North America – one in Charlevoix, Quebec, in 1663, three around New Madrid on the Missouri-Kentucky border between 1811 and 1812, and…
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Magicians less prone to mental health challenges than other creatives, study suggests | UK News
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Magicians are less likely to experience mental health challenges than other creatives, according to a new study. Researchers at Aberystwyth University say there is growing evidence of a link between those challenges and creativity. But new research led by the university has been published in the journal BJPsych Open which shows magicians are “an exception”.…
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New toothpaste could prevent severe allergic reactions to peanuts, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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A new toothpaste which shows the potential of preventing severe reactions in adults with peanut allergies has been developed by scientists. An early-stage clinical trial tested whether 32 adults with peanut allergies could safely brush their teeth with a toothpaste containing trace amounts of peanut protein. The hope is that introducing tiny amounts of peanuts…
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Smartphones may be able to detect how drunk a person is based on their voice, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Smartphones may be able to detect how drunk a person is based on changes in their voice, according to a new study. Researchers used sensors in smartphones to record a person’s voice before and after drinking. They then put the recordings through a digital program to isolate and measure certain aspects, like frequency and pitch.…
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Getting angry boosts performance and productivity, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Happiness is overrated – it’s anger that will help you get stuff done. That’s according to a new study which found getting mad can be a powerful motivator for being productive and achieving goals. The American Psychological Association surveyed more than 1,000 people, who were triggered into experiencing a specific emotion – such as joy,…
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Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than most countries, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than most countries, according to a new report on its damaging environmental impact. Mining is the process by which transactions are added to and validated on the blockchain, the public ledger for cryptocurrencies. Competing miners race to use computers to solve complex mathematical puzzles using extremely powerful hardware – receiving…
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ChatGPT and other chatbots ‘could be used to help launch cyberattacks’, study warns | Science & Tech News
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ChatGPT can be tricked into producing malicious code that could be used to launch cyberattacks, a study has found. OpenAI’s tool and similar chatbots can create written content based on user commands, having been trained on enormous amounts of text data from across the internet. They are designed with protections in place to prevent their…
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Moon is millions of years older than previously thought, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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The moon is 40 million years older than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers analysed crystals brought back by Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972 to pinpoint the time of the moon’s formation. During Apollo missions, astronauts gathered rocks, pebbles, sand and dust from the moon’s surface – and it was lunar…
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Short voice recordings can be used to test people for diabetes, study finds | Science & Tech News
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People could be diagnosed with diabetes using little more than a short voice recording from their phone, according to a new study. Using an audio sample of just six to 10 seconds, along with basic health data like age, sex, height and weight, scientists created an AI model that can determine whether someone is diabetic…