Students who took exams on days with pollen in the air scored slightly lower, according to a study linking allergies to test performance.

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

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Three-site reproducibility study completed by Tampa General Hospital, Mayo Clinic, and Baylor Scott & White HealthSufficient clinical samples ...

When the performance of AI models was assessed within stratified patient subgroups, such as only high-grade breast cancers or only MSI-positive tumors, accuracy fell substantially, revealing that the ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

A recent brain imaging study reveals that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder consists of at least two distinct physical subtypes. This discovery suggests that patients may eventually benefit ...

What follows is an accounting of what actually happened when intelligence became abundant. Not because the technology ...

New 2026 research links coffee and tea to lower dementia risk, suggests dark matter may interact with neutrinos, and reveals ...

Chun, B. and Lee, M.-H. (2026) Graphene-Inspired Films: Capturing Nanoplastics and Blocking Their Path to Crops. Journal of Environmental Protection, 17, 143-157. doi: 10.4236/jep.2026.173007 .

A preprint paper submitted to arXiv on Jan. 22, 2026, ranks common chickens higher than leading AI systems on a new consciousness scoring framework, placing the humble barnyard bird above models like ...

Quanterix remediated all cited material weaknesses in its control environment during the quarter, solidifying its compliance foundation. The newly consolidated enterprise stands more diversified, with ...