Health

New Zealand smoking ban: Māori mourn loss of hard-won smoking reform

The model for an end to tobacco had been pushed for decades by New Zealand's Indigenous people.

Why do people always wait until January to get fit?

Many people wait until the new year to join a gym or start running - but now might be the best time.

Battle of the AIs in medical research: ChatGPT vs Elicit

A research team has focused on generative AI as an information-gathering tool in the medical field. The results showed that one of the generative AIs suggested mostly fictitious references, while the other suggested multiple references with the same level of accuracy as the researchers. It is advised to use different generative AIs depending on the type of information needed.

What happens when the brain loses a hub?

Neuroscientists have obtained the first direct recordings of the human brain in the minutes before and after a brain hub crucial for language meaning was surgically disconnected. The results reveal the importance of brain hubs in neural networks and the remarkable way in which the human brain attempts to compensate when a hub is lost, with immediacy not previously observed.

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