Tea, berries and dark chocolate featured in a diet linked to lower Parkinson’s risk
A prospective UK Biobank study of 123,655 adults found that a dietary pattern richer in flavonoid-containing foods was modestly associated with a lower incidence of
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Why erratic step counts may matter more than your daily total
Why erratic step counts may matter more than your daily total
Specific brain regions found more vulnerable to dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies is one of the most common forms of dementia in older adults, after Alzheimer’s disease.
Coronary artery calcium scan may be most valuable for a specific group of patients
It’s an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart’s arteries and helps predict risk of future heart disease.
Experimental vaccine protects against Zika virus through T cells alone
Zika virus has been spreading for decades, but it first grabbed worldwide headlines in 2016. That February, with an outbreak sweeping the Americas, the World
Gut bacteria may send different biological signals in Parkinson’s disease
A new study from the University of Oulu suggests that gut bacteria may send different biological signals in Parkinson’s disease.
Treatment involving patient’s family cuts mental health hospital admissions, study finds
The approach focuses on the patient priorities, seeing the same clinicians, and involving people close to them.
Study reveals how the brain balances competing goals
How do we decide what to do when faced with choices? And how does the brain adapt those decisions as the world around us changes?
World’s first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.
RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,”
Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible
At the heart of quantum mechanics lie a few sacred rules for how to use the theory. First and foremost is, roughly, that thou shalt
AI boom continues apace as world’s most valuable company beats expectations
The world’s most valuable company has again defied eye-watering forecasts, delivering a bumper set of financial results.