Genetic evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago

A new review warns that ecotourism cannot "decarbonize" the tourism industry, calling such claims scientifically inaccurate

Study evaluates performance of large language models on medical certification questions, reporting differences in accuracy and consistency across difficulty levels in geriatrics assessment tasks

Study reports that subjective and objective sleep measures are associated with next-day alertness and morning sleepiness, based on analysis of wearable sleep data and psychological factors in healthy adults

Meta-analysis reports that sleep disorders are associated with structural brain alterations linked to cognitive impairment and emotional regulation, based on neuroimaging studies across multiple sleep conditions

New York City's congestion pricing plan successfully reduced pollution and traffic in Manhattan – 8 weeks after the implementation, traffic volumes declined by 10%…

A decade of ocean surveys reveals that Prochlorococcus, the world's most abundant phytoplankton, could decline by 50% in tropical waters by 2100

Mental, physical illnesses often go hand in hand. Genetic study explains why

Metagenomic and gene expression patterns in declining commercial honey bee colonies - Scientific Reports

Global study of 480,000 wells reveals over 20% of coastal areas face significant groundwater depletion, with some levels dropping 50cm per year

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data

Study reports that improvements in sleep quality are associated with better decision-making performance in individuals with panic disorder, based on longitudinal clinical assessment over time

Categorization Is 'Baked' into the Brain

Study reports that multi-night sleep-disordered breathing patterns are associated with accelerated vascular aging, based on analysis of repeated sleep measurements and cardiovascular risk markers

Method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

Study reports that digital mindfulness intervention is associated with improved sleep efficiency and heart rate variability in adults, based on randomized controlled trial using wearable sleep tracking data

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists for major cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in type 1 diabetes

Study reports that a deep learning model can classify respiratory diseases using lung sound recordings with improved accuracy compared to traditional methods…

Air is full of DNA

Large collaborative study finds low analytical robustness in the social and behavioral sciences, with only 34% of reanalyses yielding the same results as the original reports.

These advanced solar cells have an antique source: old bullets

Randomized placebo-controlled pilot trial finds rice bran–derived compound improves quality-of-life scores in cancer patients during active treatment

Objectively measured physical activity following lumbar decompression surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis

Large-scale analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasians detects consistent trends in allele frequency change, showing many hundreds of alleles under strong directional selection the past 10,000 years, including variants that today predict complex traits such as body fat…

Liquid or solid? Oobleck droplets are both

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

Towards end-to-end automation of AI research

Large language models are not the problem

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