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Compulsive Behaviours Could Be Inflammation, Not 'Habit Loop', Says New Study In Rats
The study, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, looked at rats and tested whether inducing inflammation in the striatum brain region responsible for motor control, habit forming and motivation would increase habitual behaviour.
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Practical Health Resolutions 2026: Health Plans You Can Actually Stick To Beyond January
According to behavioural research, it is not a lack of motivation but poor planning and unrealistic expectations that cause most resolutions to fail.
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Study Reveals How Brain Cues Influence Poor Decisions And Risky Behaviour
This study helps understand why some people repeatedly make poor decisions and may be helpful in developing strategies to reduce unhealthy behaviour.
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Anthropic Releases New Open-Source Tool That Evaluates How AI Models Behave
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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James Webb Space Telescope Could Help Reveal Dark Matter in a Way Scientists Did Not Anticipate
New research suggests the James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists understand dark matter by studying oddly shaped early galaxies. These elongated galaxies may form due to dark matter’s gravitational behaviour, offering indirect clues about whether ultralight or warm dark matter particles shaped the early universe.
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Cute But Cruel? Research Shows Popular Pet Videos Often Cause Stress
So-called "challenges" on social media can involve scaring a pet, which is unkind and risks causing harm.
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China's Researchers Bring Closure To Einstein And Bohr's Long-Standing Quantum Mystery
Professor Pan and his team recreated Einstein's thought experiment to demonstrate how the quantum world actually works.
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The Real Reason You Get Hangry And How To Make It Stop
Hangry is partly biology, partly behaviour, and eminently manageable. Research links low glucose, hunger hormones and the gut-brain axis to irritability and reduced self-control.
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Generative AI Produces Only Average-Level Creative Work: Study
A new study in the Journal of Creative Behaviour finds that generative AI systems like ChatGPT have a mathematical limit on creativity, restricting them to amateur-level performance.
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"Asli Kaam After 4 pm," Terror-Accused Doctor Shaheen Told Colleagues
Dr Shaheen Saeed - a key suspect in the Delhi Red Fort blast case - would speak darkly of her 'work' starting only after 4 pm every day, after she clocked out of her 'day job' at the Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre.
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Male Humpback Dolphins Wear Sea Sponges As Wigs To "Impress The Ladies," Say Researchers
This strange behaviour was observed by a team of researchers from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA).
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82% Human-Stray Dog Encounters In India "Neutral": Research
Human-street dog interactions in India are predominantly uneventful with 82 per cent of observed encounters involving approachable or neutral behaviour, according to a research on street dogs and public health by the University of Edinburgh.
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Study Reveals Growing Use of ChatGPT in Scientific Papers Across Multiple Disciplines
Researchers have tracked a significant increase in the use of ChatGPT in scientific writing, especially in computer science and competitive research fields. By analyzing over a million papers, they found patterns linked to author habits, paper length, and geography. The findings raise broader discussions about the role of AI in research and the int...
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Nighttime Coffee Drinking May Increase Impulsivity In Women: Study
The findings could have negative implications for shift workers, health care, and military personnel who consume coffee at night, particularly females, said a team of biologists from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
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Compulsive Behaviours Could Be Inflammation, Not 'Habit Loop', Says New Study In Rats
The study, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, looked at rats and tested whether inducing inflammation in the striatum brain region responsible for motor control, habit forming and motivation would increase habitual behaviour.
-
Practical Health Resolutions 2026: Health Plans You Can Actually Stick To Beyond January
According to behavioural research, it is not a lack of motivation but poor planning and unrealistic expectations that cause most resolutions to fail.
-
Study Reveals How Brain Cues Influence Poor Decisions And Risky Behaviour
This study helps understand why some people repeatedly make poor decisions and may be helpful in developing strategies to reduce unhealthy behaviour.
-
Anthropic Releases New Open-Source Tool That Evaluates How AI Models Behave
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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James Webb Space Telescope Could Help Reveal Dark Matter in a Way Scientists Did Not Anticipate
New research suggests the James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists understand dark matter by studying oddly shaped early galaxies. These elongated galaxies may form due to dark matter’s gravitational behaviour, offering indirect clues about whether ultralight or warm dark matter particles shaped the early universe.
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Cute But Cruel? Research Shows Popular Pet Videos Often Cause Stress
So-called "challenges" on social media can involve scaring a pet, which is unkind and risks causing harm.
-
China's Researchers Bring Closure To Einstein And Bohr's Long-Standing Quantum Mystery
Professor Pan and his team recreated Einstein's thought experiment to demonstrate how the quantum world actually works.
-
The Real Reason You Get Hangry And How To Make It Stop
Hangry is partly biology, partly behaviour, and eminently manageable. Research links low glucose, hunger hormones and the gut-brain axis to irritability and reduced self-control.
-
Generative AI Produces Only Average-Level Creative Work: Study
A new study in the Journal of Creative Behaviour finds that generative AI systems like ChatGPT have a mathematical limit on creativity, restricting them to amateur-level performance.
-
"Asli Kaam After 4 pm," Terror-Accused Doctor Shaheen Told Colleagues
Dr Shaheen Saeed - a key suspect in the Delhi Red Fort blast case - would speak darkly of her 'work' starting only after 4 pm every day, after she clocked out of her 'day job' at the Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre.
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Male Humpback Dolphins Wear Sea Sponges As Wigs To "Impress The Ladies," Say Researchers
This strange behaviour was observed by a team of researchers from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA).
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82% Human-Stray Dog Encounters In India "Neutral": Research
Human-street dog interactions in India are predominantly uneventful with 82 per cent of observed encounters involving approachable or neutral behaviour, according to a research on street dogs and public health by the University of Edinburgh.
-
Study Reveals Growing Use of ChatGPT in Scientific Papers Across Multiple Disciplines
Researchers have tracked a significant increase in the use of ChatGPT in scientific writing, especially in computer science and competitive research fields. By analyzing over a million papers, they found patterns linked to author habits, paper length, and geography. The findings raise broader discussions about the role of AI in research and the int...
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Nighttime Coffee Drinking May Increase Impulsivity In Women: Study
The findings could have negative implications for shift workers, health care, and military personnel who consume coffee at night, particularly females, said a team of biologists from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
