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BIOMETRICS

Facial age estimation: A roadmap for technological and legal deployment and development

Wrongful arrest in US linked to facial recognition error leads to 0K settlement

Wrongful arrest in US linked to facial recognition error leads to $200K settlement

Biometric identity verification gets caught up in great expectations and politics

ISO’s mDL standard can’t guarantee issue trustworthiness

UK Home Affairs Committee launches inquiry into digital ID potential and risks

40,000 IoT Security Cameras Are Exposed Online

Facial recognition in smart glasses sparks privacy concerns amid growing popularity

Climate Disasters Hit the Brain Before Babies Are Even Born, Study Suggests

“What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one.”

Stress-Linked Brain Pathway Disrupts Sleep and Memory

New research reveals a stress-sensitive neural pathway that impairs both sleep and memory in male mice. Scientists activated neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of […]

Sticky Molecules May Hold the Key to Preventing Vision Loss in AMD

A new study reveals how sticky molecules called heparan sulfate (HS) may trap lipoproteins in the eye and trigger early age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These […]

Late-Life Mood Disorders May Foreshadow Alzheimer’s

Late-life depression and bipolar disorder may be more than psychiatric conditions—they could be early warning signs of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Using advanced brain imaging […]

Neuroscience Says Your Office Should Have a Dedicated Daydreaming Space

Investing in a quiet spot for letting people’s mind run free for a while will pay off in greater happiness, creativity, and even productivity.

Aphantasia: Why Some Minds Are Blind to Images

Scientists have uncovered how the brains of people with aphantasia, those who cannot visualize mental images, process visual information differently. Although key visual and memory-related […]

BRAIN

Sleep’s Secret Sequence May Sculpt Our Memories Like a Garden

23/06/2025

Cerebellum Synapse Structure Revealed

23/06/2025

Zoning Out or Zoning In? How Aimless Wandering Trains the Brain

23/06/2025

Brain Navi receives US FDA approval for NaoTrac neurosurgical robot

23/06/2025

Your Brain Might Be Older Than You Think – And It Could Explain Memory Loss

23/06/2025

How PTSD Disrupts Brain Cell Communication

22/06/2025

Scientists Just Found a New, Incredibly Rare Blood Type

23/06/2025

A French woman in her 60s is the only person in the world known to carry it so far.

ChatGPT Encouraged Man as He Swore to Kill Sam Altman

23/06/2025

In its quest to keep users engaged, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is encouraging delusions — and that dangerous incentivization in the AI industry now has a growing […]

Meta’s AI Model ‘Memorized’ Huge Chunks of Books, Including ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘1984’

23/06/2025

A new paper from researchers at Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University seems to show that one version of Meta’s flagship AI model, Llama 3.1, […]