WhatsApp could soon be banned in Russia – here’s all you need to know
Russia is considering banning WhatsApp The Meta-owned app is the most popular messaging service in…
KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents
This is an early release from a forthcoming KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents. Please see the topline and methodology for full details. Full reporting is coming soon. Explore The Washington Post’s journalism: RFK Jr. drives a wedge between red and blue states on vaccines, Sept. 4, 2025 Source link
Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.
When Synthesia launched in 2017, its primary purpose was to match AI versions of real human faces—for example, the former footballer David Beckham—with dubbed voices speaking in different languages. A few years later, in 2020, it started giving the companies that signed up for its services the opportunity to make professional-level presentation videos starring either…
A tiny embryo fold changed the course of evolution
Small fold – big role: A tissue fold known as the cephalic furrow, an evolutionary novelty that forms between the head and the trunk of fly embryos, plays a mechanical role in stabilizing embryonic tissues during the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Combining theory and experiment: Researchers integrated computer simulations with their experiments…
Scientists create biodegradable plastic stronger than PET
The PET-alternative PDCA is biodegradable and has superior physical properties. A Kobe University team of bioengineers engineered E. coli bacteria to produce the compound from glucose at unprecedented levels and without byproducts — and opened up a realm of possibilities for the future of bioengineering. The durability of plastics is both the reason why they…
Fossil reveals a 310-million-year-old fish that ate with a hidden second jaw
Experts have uncovered the earliest known example of a fish with extra teeth deep inside its mouth – a 310-million-year-old fossilized ray-finned fish that evolved a unique way of devouring prey. Platysomus parvulus had a unique way of eating never seen in ray-finned fish from that time – a ‘tongue bite’, using a special set…
Scientists watch an atomic nucleus flip in real time
Researchers from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have been able to see the magnetic nucleus of an atom switch back and forth in real time. They read out the nuclear ‘spin’ via the electrons in the same atom through the needle of a scanning tunneling microscope. To their surprise, the spin remained stable…
A 3-minute brainwave test could spot Alzheimer’s years before symptoms
A simple brainwave test developed at the University of Bath has been shown to detect signs of memory impairment linked to Alzheimer’s disease years before clinical diagnosis is typically possible. Published in the journal Brain Communications the study by academics from the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, reports that Fastball EEG, a…
Martha’s rule rolled out to all acute hospitals in England
Smitha Mundasad and Judith BurnsBBC News Merope Mills Martha Mills died aged 13 after developing sepsis. Martha’s rule, a way for families to seek an urgent second opinion if they are concerned about the care their loved ones receive, will be rolled out across all English hospitals delivering acute or short-term treatment. The telephone helpline,…
Constipated children being failed by lack of services, say parents
BBC Elissa says constipation needs to be screened for in every area of healthcare A mother who feared her two-year-old son’s untreated constipation could have killed him is calling for access to children’s continence services to be made a national priority. Elissa Novak said Ivan was constantly vomiting, losing weight and in severe pain when…
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements
While there is a lot of work to do, Tedrake says all of the evidence so far suggests that the approaches used to LLMs also work for robots. “I think it’s changing everything,” he says. Gauging progress in robotics has become more challenging of late, of course, with videoclips showing commercial humanoids performing complex chores,…
