Across three online experiments with 1,563 people, reading a careless repairman’s private thoughts rather than his spoken apology raised forgiveness only when he was clearly at fault, and the gains were small.
A lone attacker may be blocked by cutting off information and materials, but a state program mostly can’t be and has to be deterred instead. A policy analysis lays out nine layered defenses to cover both.
Five climate scientists reviewed three decades of fingerprint research and say rainfall, ocean, snow and stratosphere records now point the same way, while conceding that attributing individual extreme events remains hard.
Once resets outnumbered scrambling steps, a 100-qubit quantum circuit tipped into control, though a cheaper classical model reproduced the average result. Nothing in the experiment corrected an error.
Six chatbots backed an existing policy about 70% of the time but the same trade-off framed as new only about 34%, while recipe and home heating advice showed no clear bias.
Single-cell sequencing of biopsies from eight people with lupus and seven healthy volunteers pointed to skin cells and a recruited immune cell type that may help explain why ultraviolet light sets off rashes and flares.
Senescent fibroblasts from aged mice failed to ramp up protein recycling, and their secretions dulled the macrophages that clear them. In mice, a drug restarting the pathway curbed senescence and, started early, lung scarring.
Mice given a synthetic cannabinoid froze more and avoided a predator odor analog, and blocking output from fear-region somatostatin neurons prevented the avoidance boost. Whether any of this explains human cannabis anxiety is untested.
A lithium-doped manganese dioxide insert kept acetic acid readings lower in a bin of rotting food for more than 40 days. Fully converting that acid to carbon dioxide took lab light nearly three times as strong as full sun.
Chatbot answers now draw on a wider range of claims than three years ago, a new analysis of 27 systems finds, yet even the most diverse one still trails a simple web search by nearly 19 percent.
Georgetown and University of Washington researchers found that AI video summaries omitted the crash itself in 95% of test cases, and one misleading detail was enough to warp what people remembered from an accident they had watched firsthand.
A three-variable simulation of the primary visual cortex settled from chaotic activity into a steady rhythm once two feedback loops were added. The chaos never left the math, which hints that stable seeing is something the brain keeps working at.