how a fear of failure is hampering physicists’ quest for the ultimate answer

It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, sending us spinning into a new world of chaos from our previously ordered universe. This brilliant generation of physicists ultimately peeled back the layers of the universe, as well as of the atom, to reveal […]

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TAU: Pioneering Parkinson’s Disease research and strategy

Since its inception in 2018 at Tel Aviv University (TAU), the Aufzien Family Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, together with the  Neurological Institute at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (TASMC), has made remarkable progress in promoting research, bringing together scientists, clinicians, patients and industry to work together in the search […]

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An AI tool for predicting protein shapes could be transformative for medicine, but it challenges science’s need for proof

An advanced algorithm that has been developed by Google DeepMind has gone some way to cracking one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in biology. AlphaFold aims to predict the 3D structures of proteins from the “instruction code” in their building blocks. The latest upgrade has recently been released. The latest upgrade has recently been released. […]

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We asked ChatGPT for legal advice – here are five reasons why you shouldn’t

At some point in your life, you are likely to need legal advice. A survey carried out in 2023 by the Law Society, the Legal Services Board and YouGov found that two-thirds of respondents had experienced a legal issue in the past four years. The most common problems were employment, finance, welfare and benefits and […]

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Siri upgrade revolutionizes phone voice command functions

Apple announced plans to significantly upgrade Siri based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) allowing it to operate applications, dictate voice reminders, summarize websites, send automated responses to messages, and even edit photos using artificial intelligence. Bloomberg reported that the American company Apple plans to integrate AI into the new iOS 18, enabling users to control […]

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‘Sleeping on it’ really does help and four other recent sleep research breakthroughs

Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down the exact functions of sleep has proven to be difficult. During the past decade, there has been a surge of […]

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The universe’s biggest explosions made some of the elements we are composed of. But there’s another mystery source out there

After its “birth” in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in the 13.8 billion years between the Big Bang and the present day. Stars have produced many of these heavier […]

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Introducing Spacetop G1: The laptop for the spatial computing era

Today, Sightful™ unveiled Spacetop G1, the best laptop for productivity, bringing the power of spatial computing to daily life. Spacetop G1 is the first device that combines the familiarity and utility of a laptop with the power of spatial computing. Designed for the work from anywhere world with a 100” virtual workspace rather than […]

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Tiktok: the government wants to restrict it, but my study shows it can be useful and empowering

Every day, 750 million people around the world engage with Tiktok – the short-video sharing app. Kenyans are among its top users. According to a Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023, 54% of Kenyans sampled used TikTok for general purposes, the highest proportion among the countries in the survey. They also use TikTok to express […]

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people who are easily absorbed in an activity may have better mental and cardiovascular health

Have you ever lost all sense of space and time when redecorating a room? How about being so focused while playing an instrument that the worries that weighed you down a minute ago just evaporated? Then you’ve probably experienced “flow”. Flow is a term used in psychology to describe a state of heightened concentration, in […]

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