Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...
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Study Says Children Are Getting Sick And Dying From Exposure To Plastics And Chemicals

Over the past five decades, the health of children worldwide has taken a concerning turn, with rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) rising dramatically. Now, scientists say they can point to a ...
Ars Technica

Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.

Scientists could win back trust lost during the COVID-19 pandemic if they just showed a little intellectual humility, according to a study published Monday in Nature Human Behavior. It’s no secret ...
Los Angeles Times

Study sheds light on how reams of fake scientific papers are getting into literature

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...
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Science Is Used Differently by Policymakers in Different Parties, a New Study Finds

Societal challenges, from climate change to public health crises to advancements in AI, have been intrinsically linked with scientific progress for generations. But as politics become more polarized, ...
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Caris Life Sciences Announces New Study Demonstrating the Power and Clinical Utility of its Caris Assure® Blood-Based Assay for Multi-Cancer Early Detection, Minimal Residual ...

Scientific Reports study validates the first multifunctional, AI-enabled blood-based assay to offer diagnostic, prognostic and predictive utility in a single assay. The Caris Assure® platform is a ...