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Cambridge scientists cracked the brain “switch” that triggers weight loss two opposite ways

Two obesity drugs do the exact opposite thing to the same receptor. Both make you lose weight. That contradiction has…

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New GLP-1 pill hits up to 12% weight loss in 36 weeks

Twelve percent of your body weight, gone in 36 weeks, from a pill you can swallow with breakfast or without…

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Wild monkeys got a touchscreen and 97% of the time the AI knew exactly who was tapping [Field Test]

It took three days and a large male capuchin named Trompudo, whose name means "big snout," before anyone knew whether…

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Neuroscientists still can’t explain why red feels like anything

Christof Koch has spent decades mapping the machinery of awareness, and he opened the 15th "Behind and Beyond the Brain"…

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Not every atom in a molecule tells the same story [X-ray study]

Hit a molecule with ultraviolet light and something happens in about two picoseconds. Trillionths of a second. The trick has…

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Scientists scanned 15,000 bird skeletons and found evolution doesn’t work the way you’d think

A computer can measure a dead songbird's skeleton in about 45 seconds. That number is doing more work in this…

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China just tested a 582-ton magnet, and the ITER comparison is the real story

A 582-ton superconducting magnet doesn't get built for a science fair. China finished testing one, and the number that matters…

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Tesla’s robotaxi math doesn’t add up, and 3 numbers prove it

Tesla says its robotaxi program is growing. The numbers it released this week say something closer to the opposite.On an…

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OpenAI says ChatGPT now out-reasons doctors. Its own health lead walked it back.

Two OpenAI executives sat in the same briefing this week and told a different story about the same product. One…

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3 physicists asked what happens if you cut a photon in half

Pull a mirror out of the way while a single photon is halfway through bouncing off it, and you don't…

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