"The main objective of this scientific study was to see whether AI could be used in a scientifically appropriate manner to improve the scientific writing process. Indeed, AI reduced the time for writing but had significant inaccuracies. The latter necessitates that AI cannot currently be used alone but could be used with careful oversight by humans to assist in writing scientific review articles."
Kacena, M.A., Plotkin, L.I. & Fehrenbacher, J.C. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles. Curr Osteoporos Rep (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11914-023-00852-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #AI #Artificialintelligence #Writing #ChatGPT #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai @writing
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00278-3 #Science #STEM #Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookReview @science @bookstodon
"The researchers conclude that climate-related stress could trigger a pandemic outbreak or intensify disease outbreaks - for example, because food is scarce and people become more susceptible for diseases." https://www.marum.de/en/Discover/climate-and-pandemics.html #Climate #ClimateChange #Paleoclimatology #Research #Science #Oceanography #Environment #Pandemic @science @climate
"This article aims to complicate the origin story of biological anthropology by examining how colonial subjects were involved in the development, testing, and refinement of racial theory, and thus of biological anthropology itself. Taking India as an example, I trace how Indians and the caste system were first the subjects and eventually the interlocutors of racial scientific theory and testing."
Weaver, L.J. (2022) 'The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the origins of Anthropology,' Annual Review of Anthropology, 51(1), pp. 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041320-024344. #DOI #Article #History #Anthropology #Race #Racism #ScientificRacism #India #Colonialism #Science #Biology #Academia #Academic #Academics @biology @science @anthropology
"We show that early H. sapiens associated with the LRJ were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction of late Neanderthals in southwestern Europe. Our results strengthen the notion of a patchwork of distinct human populations and technocomplexes present in Europe during this transitional period."
Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H. et al. Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Science #STEM #Biology #Europe #Paleoanthropology #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology @archaeodons
"These findings suggest that wealth inequality in the US is associated with significant inequities in survival. Wealth redistribution policies may substantially reduce those inequities and increase population longevity."
Himmelstein KEW, Tsai AC, Venkataramani AS. Wealth Redistribution to Extend Longevity in the US. JAMA Intern Med. Published online January 29, 2024. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7975 #Investigation #Money #Inequalities #Finance #Wealth #US #USA #America #Medicine #Health #DOI #Research #PeerReviewed #Science #STEM @science
"In this technical report, we demonstrate a single scenario where a Large Language Model acts misaligned and strategically deceives its users without being instructed to act in this manner," https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-will-lie-cheat-and-use-insider-trading-when-under-pressure-to-make-money-research-shows #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Tech #Technology #STEM #Science @science
"What can new technology reveal about the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls? Join scientists as they investigate suspicious, newly surfaced fragments to see if they're forfeited, and use imaging techniques to digitally unravel the charred remains of a scroll." https://youtu.be/INV9eLQa7Jc #Youtube #Video #Documentary #DeadSeaScrolls #Ancient #Hebrew #Bible #Judaism #Christianity #Religion #Tech #Technology #Science #STEM #Archaeology @science @religion @christianity @archaeodons
"Retrace Einstein's thought experiments as NOVA reveals the simple but powerful ideas that reshaped our understanding of gravity, illuminating the theory of general relativity—and Einstein's brilliance—as never before." https://youtu.be/7CZyDPELXs4 #Youtube #Video #Science #STEM #Physics #Einstein #Documentary @science @physics
"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."
Karin A. F. Zonneveld et al., Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Sci. Adv.10, eadk1033 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Climatology #Science #STEM #Climate #Environment #Geoscience #ClimateChange #Roman #Empire #Italy #Europe #Pandemic #Disease #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology
Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Study #Handwriting #Typewriting #Writing #Brain #Neuroscience #Science #STEM #Education #Psychology #Learning #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
"Here we present ancient DNA evidence of a pre-Columbian New World treponematosis by reconstructing a high-coverage T. pallidum genome retrieved from nearly 2,000-year-old Brazilian indigenous human remains, along with three low-coverage genomes from the same spatiotemporal context."
Majander, K., Pla-Díaz, M., du Plessis, L. et al. Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #PeerReviewed #Article #Genetics #Biology #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genome #Academia #Academic #Academia @science @biology
"Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated “leap” (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2)."
Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, et al. (2019) Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0221967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221967 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReviewed #Archaeology #Metallurgy #Archaeodons #Science #STEM #Ancient #AncientNearEast #Anthropology #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
"Notably, we demonstrated through AlphaGeometry a neuro-symbolic approach for theorem proving by means of large-scale exploration from scratch, sidestepping the need for human-annotated proof examples and human-curated problem statements."
Trinh, T.H., Wu, Y., Le, Q.V. et al. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature 625, 476–482 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06747-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Geometry #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Maths #Math #Mathematics @science
"The team used a sophisticated statistical technique, latent profile analysis, to identify clusters of biomarker activity. Three groups were identified and labelled as low risk to health, moderate risk, and high risk. The researchers then looked at how earlier exposure to stressful circumstances might affect people’s likelihood of being in the high-risk group." https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jan/financial-stress-linked-worse-biological-health #Science #STEM #News #Health #Medicine #Stress #Biology #UCL @science @biology
"This article is an attempt to characterize part of the information that circulated in this transitional period through a comparative examination of Portuguese nautical instructions and Arabic navigational treatises, focusing specifically on the stars used for latitude measurements."
Bénard Inês (2022) ‘The stars in sixteenth-century nautical literature: a comparative study’. Zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985465 #Article #Science #STEM #History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #C16th #16thCentury #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
"We apply this method to ancient skeletal remains from Britain to document the first instance of mosaic Turner syndrome (45,X0/46,XX) in the ancient genetic record in an Iron Age individual sequenced to average 9-fold coverage, the earliest known incidence of an individual with a 47,XYY karyotype from the Early Medieval period, as well as individuals with Klinefelter (47,XXY) and Down syndrome (47,XY, + 21)."
Anastasiadou, K., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes. Commun Biol 7, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05642-z #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Population #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #IronAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology
"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."
Cook, S. J., Jouvet, G., Millan, R., Rabatel, A., Zekollari, H., & Dussaillant, I. (2023). Committed ice loss in the European Alps until 2050 using a deep-learning-aided 3D ice-flow model with data assimilation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105029. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105029 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #STEM #Glaciers #Climate #Data #AI #Europe #ComputationalScience #ClimateChange #Environment #Artificialintelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climate
"Our results indicate a case of poor oral health during the Scandinavian Mesolithic, and show that pitch pieces have the potential to provide information on material use, diet and oral health."
Kırdök, E., Kashuba, N., Damlien, H. et al. Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals. Sci Rep 13, 22125 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48762-6 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Archaeology #Palaeoecology #Archaeodons #History #StoneAge #Mesolithic #Scandinavia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science
"While we detect long-term shifts in local genetic ancestry in Cambridgeshire, we find no evidence of major changes in genetic ancestry nor higher differentiation of immune loci between cohorts living before and after the Black Death."
Ruoyun Hui et al., Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi5903 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Science #STEM #Genomics #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics #History #Ancestry #Cambridge #BlackDeath #UK #UnitedKingdom @science @anthropology @archaeodons @biology
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