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Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials. Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental ...

As I’ve discussed previously, conventional wisdom suggests that using social media promotes poor mental health, especially in teenagers. But there is good reason to question this idea. As more ...

Alzheimer's disease is a form of progressive dementia that we've labored to figure out for decades. Scientists made some headway with the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease, but progress is ...

Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman takes the long view of physical activity. His name has been connected to running and human evolution ever since his seminal Nature study “Endurance running and ...

New findings contradict previous notions about sugar's role in the onset of diabetic cataracts. Using an animal model that more closely recapitulates type 2 diabetes in humans, the research team found ...

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"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

A language model the researchers named the “Ontologist” is tasked with defining scientific terms in the papers and examining the connections between them, fleshing out the knowledge graph. Crafting a ...

(Nanowerk News) Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their ...