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Exploring the potential of glycomimetic peptides as powerful anti-inflammatory therapeutic treatments.

Change can take many forms.

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might.

When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to identify whether one moving dot was chasing another moving dot, those with greater tendencies toward paranoid thinking (believing others intend them harm) and teleological thinking (ascribing excessive meaning and purpose to events) performed worse than their counterparts, the study found. Those individuals more often—and confidently—claimed one dot was chasing the other when it wasn’t.

The findings, published in the journal Communications Psychology, suggest that in the future, testing for illnesses like schizophrenia could be done with a simple eye test.

Very interesting discussion (with interactive animations) of how diffusion and criticality can model real-world processes and give us insight into why things happen.

Learn how things spread with playable simulations.

Just as humans can use the taps of Morse Code or the patterns of smoke signals to communicate precise messages, infants show a remarkable flexibility to interpret nonlinguistic signals to aid their learning.

But what conditions are required for babies to elevate new nonlinguistic signals in this way? And how early can they do so?

Sandra Waxman, the study’s senior author, and her colleagues discovered that infants as young as six months old were able to harness nonlinguistic signals for learning, a surprising finding because at this age, babies are just beginning to acquire their own language.

Continue reading “Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals” »

TSMC has revealed additional details about its “2nm N2” technology, disclosing massive advancements in yield rates and performance metrics.

TSMC’s “N2 Nanosheet” Implementation Has Brought A Huge Rise In Node Performance, Showing Immense Potential

The Taiwan giant’s 2nm process is one of the most anticipated developments in the market, mainly since the node is expected to bring in gigantic leaps in performance and efficiency results. The process is likely to come under mass production by H2 2025, and we now have information about the performance of 2nm when stacked against previous-gen counterparts, credit to the Taiwan giant’s briefing at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, where 2nm “nanosheets” were the highlight of the briefing.

“The future of medicine is the medicine of frequencies.” – Albert Einstein.

Imagine a future where cancerous tumors inside the body could be destroyed using only sound waves. Well… the future is now. And it’s called histotripsy.

Histotripsy is a non-invasive process that uses sound waves to completely eliminate cancer tumors. Like radiation therapy, doctors point an ultrasound device at your tumor and “zap it.” But unlike radiotherapy, there is no cancer-causing radiation or heat involved, tumors can be destroyed in one treatment, there is minimal damage to surrounding tissue, a low rate of complications, faster recovery time, and it has been shown to activate immune cells to identify and target any remaining cancer cells in the body.

LLMs can shed a substantial portion of their attention layers without hurting their performance.

Salk scientists establish novel Link between cell nutrition and identity, say targeting nutrient-dependent activity could improve immunotherapies.

The decision between scrambled eggs or an apple for breakfast probably won’t make or break your day. However, for your cells, a decision between similar microscopic nutrients could determine their entire identity. If and how nutrient preference impacts cell identity has been a longstanding mystery for scientists—until a team of Salk Institute immunologists revealed a novel framework for the complicated relationship between nutrition and cell identity.

The findings were published in Science on December 12, 2024.