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A quarter of all songs on streaming platforms received zero listens in 2023 showing how labels are still crucial for musical success, a report from a newly found music think tank explains. ‘Setting the Stage: How Music Works’ is the first annual report by Organisation for Recorded Culture and Arts (ORCA), a think tank, aimed at influencing governmental policy decisions around the music industry. Everything you need to know about breaking, the newest Olympic sport'Come As You Really Are': A joyful celebration of UK hobbies featuring 4,000 My Little Ponies In the report, it notes that 24.8% or 4...
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Scientists have developed a new way of tracking polar bears and it could help us better understand how they cope with disappearing sea ice. This breakthrough in stick-on GPS tracking tags will help researchers fill gaps in their knowledge about the behaviour or movement of polar bears like never before. It comes as research highlights the danger these animals face from climate change. Two important groups of polar bears in Hudson Bay, Canada, face becoming locally extinct if global temperatures continue to increase, according to a report released last month. “It's incumbent upon us to understa...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Elon Musk on Wednesday said his Neuralink startup is "moving on" to a second test patient as its tech for linking brains and computers improves. Musk and members of the Neuralink team fielded questions during an update streamed on X, formerly Twitter, discussing where it is on the path to making its brain implants commonplace. "We're only just moving now to our second Neuralink patient," Musk said. "But we hope to have, if things go well, high single digits this year." Musk's neurotechnology company in January installed a brain implant in Noland Arbaugh, which the billion...
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Sharks are known as one of the most powerful - and feared - creatures in our oceans. Now, though, it’s been revealed that a certain species could teach us how to improve heart health. New experimental research presented at the ongoing Society for Experimental Biology conference in Prague shows that muscle metabolic activity may be an important factor in the incredible longevity of the world’s oldest living vertebrate species – the Greenland shark. Scientists believe the findings may be good news for conserving this vulnerable species and for human health. What sharks can teach us about how to ...
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A method developed by a team of Oxford researchers could prevent AI models from making “confabulations” which are a certain type of hallucination or inaccurate answer, according to a new study. As the hype for generative artificial intelligence (genAI) continues, criticism has increased regarding AI models’ hallucinations. These are plausible-sounding false outputs from large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT or Anthropic’s Claude. These hallucinations could be especially problematic when it comes to fields such as medicine, news, or legal questions. “‘Hallucination’ is a very broad cat...
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African elephants call each other and respond to individual names - something that few wild animals do, according to new research published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The names are one part of elephants' low rumbles that they can hear over long distances across the savanna. Scientists believe that animals with complex social structures and family groups that separate and then reunite often may be more likely to use individual names. “If you’re looking after a large family, you’ve got to be able to say, ‘Hey, Virginia, get over here!’” says Duke University ecologist ...
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The "sleep hormone" and common supplement melatonin could be linked to a decreased risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is a progressive eye condition affecting the macula, a small area near the centre of the retina, and can blur your central vision. There is no definitive cure for AMD but several treatments can help manage the condition and slow its progression. A team of researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Cole Eye Institute both based in the US looked at the health data of over 200,000 people, some at an early stage of the disease a...
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By Liz Kimbrough Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it in their leaves, stems, roots and the soil. But as climate change and human activities drive more plant species toward extinction, that stored carbon could be released back into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating climate change. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests this biodiversity-driven carbon loss may be a major overlooked source of future emissions. The researchers used computer modeling to estimate that losing plant diversity around the world could release between 7 billion and 146 billion me...
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Some cancer patients may have better outcomes with less intensive treatment, according to several new studies. Research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago looked at ovarian and oesophageal cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. It's part of a trend of studying whether less surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation can help patients to live longer and feel better. Decades ago, cancer research was instead about doing more, but researchers are now asking if all the treatment is needed. Often, doing less works because of improved drugs. "The good news is that cancer trea...
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Plastics with bright colours degrade and form microplastics faster than those with plainer colours, according to new research. Experts at the University of Leicester have demonstrated that colours like reds, blues and greens can significantly affect the rate at which plastics break down. This could potentially mean more harmful microplastics are introduced into the environment. The study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, is the first time this effect has been proved. Which plastic colours break down faster?The team from the University of Leicester in the UK and the University ...
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