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Substance use disorder may be connected to a specific brain circuit

Posted in Medicine, Science on 27th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

Brain scans or neuroimaging can help inform treatment options, since abnormalities in brain scans are associated with substance use disorders.

Why astronomers want to put a telescope on the dark side of the moon

Posted in Hardware, Science on 27th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

Once landed, LuSEE-Night will peer out into the Universe's Dark Age vastness for about 18 months beginning in 2026..

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking On Benchmark

Posted in Software on 25th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

The creative abilities now realized by AI may provide a "Sputnik moment" for educators and others interested in furthering human creative abilities, including those who see creativity as an essential condition of individual, social, and economic growth.

MDMA Nears Breakthrough Approval For PTSD

Posted in Medicine on 25th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

Compared to patients given the same therapy with a placebo, MDMA was far more effective at dampening PTSD symptoms. Roughly twice the number of people given MDMA rather than a placebo recovered from their PTSD diagnosis.

Study Reveals Why Cancer May Spread To The Spine

Posted in Medicine on 13th Sep, 2023
by Alex Muller

The discovery opens up a new line of research on spinal disorders, helps explain why solid tumors so often spread to the spine, and could lead to new orthopedic and cancer treatments.