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The shingles vaccine may protect the heart (opens the original)
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The shingles vaccine might do your heart good. In addition to protecting people from the blistering rash, the vaccine may also lower the risk of heart disease, scientists suggest August 26 in Nature Medicine. People who got the recombinant shingles vaccine Shingrix were less likely to develop serious heart problems than those who had received the older form of the vaccine, reports Maxime Taquet, a data scientist at the University of Oxford, and his colleagues. Taquet calls the potential bonus be
Sascha Brodsky | Science News (opens the original)
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Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News reports on crucial research and discovery across science disciplines. We need your financial support to make it happen – every contribution makes a difference. AI safety monitoring can fail when an AI’s reasoning is the main clue that something has gone wrong, new research suggests.
A massive study unveils the genetic underpinnings of fibromyalgia (opens the original)
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The mysterious pain disorder fibromyalgia may have some surprising genetic roots. An analysis of 2.5 million people suggests fibromyalgia is neurological in nature, scientists report July 28 in Nature Medicine. The genetics study is the latest — and largest — to try and get a grasp on a long-debated condition. The work establishes a biological basis for fibromyalgia, which was historically thought to be psychological. Evidence of the condition’s biological origins has been accumulating for years
Sad or afraid? Dogs may be able to read your face (opens the original)
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This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey . (See our AI policy here .) Dogs may be even more attuned to people’s feelings than we think. Man’s best friend has a knack for knowing what humans are thinking, reading signs as subtle as jangling keys or a dangling leash. But a new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may even be able to distinguish between certain negative emotions without using clues like our body language, odor or words. Just looking at people’s fa
Is AI making us dumber? Maybe not. But our skills are at risk (opens the original)
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This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey . (See our AI policy here .) AI today can write our college essays, plan our meals and draft our emails. But the benefits of such assistance incite wildly different opinions. Some see AI as a tool that frees up time for other activities. Others fear that offloading our thinking to a computer will dull our capacity to think for ourselves. (See recent headlines warning about AI making us lazy, stupid and prompting civilizati
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