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Pet dogs wearing brain-recording caps watched photos of their owners while hearing them say one word. Mismatched emotions drew a bigger late brain response, though a pilot with three animals cannot say whether emotion or surprise drove it.
Marfan syndrome, the disease linked to lens dislocation and aortic rupture in humans, has now turned up in two house cat littermates carrying the first molecularly confirmed feline case.
A study of seven large language models finds that an answer that looks reliable in a single exchange can become unstable after a user repeats a false claim. The results point to a neglected test of AI safety: what happens after the conversation continues.
Kyushu University researchers were trying to protect HGF, the signal that wakes muscle stem cells, from age-related damage. At double the dose, a small trisulfide compound instead made it grip its receptor twice as tightly as undamaged protein — and nobody yet knows why.