Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea(news.flinders.edu.au)

98 points by belter 3 years ago | 74 comments

Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)(uwaterloo.ca)

118 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 75 comments

Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance(brunel.ac.uk)

109 points by XzetaU8 1 year ago | 101 comments

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data(news.mcmaster.ca)

149 points by XzetaU8 10 months ago | 6 comments

Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds(dornsife.usc.edu)

76 points by mashally 3 months ago | 38 comments

Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately(uwaterloo.ca)

358 points by ndrwnaguib 1 year ago | 145 comments

University of Waterloo news release about researchers developing a needle-free wrist-worn device that tracks blood glucose levels more accurately.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them(swinburne.edu.au)

485 points by OptionOfT 9 months ago | 252 comments

Swinburne University news article explaining why some fabrics shrink in the wash and how to restore shrunken clothes.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique(newatlas.com)

480 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 114 comments

New Atlas article reporting on a new islet cell transplantation technique that reversed type 1 diabetes.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis(lynchlab.net)

615 points by sungam 23 hours ago | 259 comments

A dermatologist's blog post comparing two frontier LLMs with a fine-tuned Inception v3 CNN on diagnosing 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, where the CNN scored 62% versus the LLMs' 42%.