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  • Upward comparison predicts an increase in state body dissatisfaction after fitspiration exposure

  • Tiggemann, M. & Zaccardo, M. “Strong is the new skinny”: A content analysis of #fitspiration images on Instagram. J. Health Psychol. 23, 1003–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316639436 (2018).

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  • Human researchers are superior to large language models in writing a medical systematic review in a comparative multitask assessment

  • Vaswani, A. et al. Attention is all you need. Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst. 2017-December, 5999–6009 (2017).

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  • Devlin, J., Chang, M. W., Lee, K. & Toutanova, K. BERT: Pre-training of deep…

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  • Elon Musk gives nod to SpaceX’s massive, previously impossible feat

    Elon Musk gives nod to SpaceX’s massive, previously impossible feat

    Elon Musk recently shared SpaceX’s standing policy to offer free Starlink service during natural disasters worldwide, highlighting the company’s commitment to pursue aid over profit during times of need. 

    Musk’s comments…

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  • Transgenic validation of a promoter strongly inducible by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

  • Lang, J. et al. Fitness costs restrict niche expansion by generalist niche-constructing pathogens. ISME J. 11, 374–385 (2017).

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  • Gelvin, S. B. Agrobacterium-Mediated plant transformation: the…

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  • China tests deep sea trident telescope

    Chinese scientists say they are moving closer to building one of the world’s most powerful neutrino telescopes, an underwater array known as the Tropical Deep sea Neutrino Telescope, or TRIDENT, that will…

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  • There’s a 1950’s aircraft design which NASA still uses today in crucial operation for its 21st century spacecraft

    There’s a 1950’s aircraft design which NASA still uses today in crucial operation for its 21st century spacecraft

    Despite having all the technology in the world to play with, the NASA WB-57 is a 1950s aircraft that is still used in crucial operations for the leading aeronautics agency, and one was spotted in California.

    NASA has explored more of…

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  • Extreme ‘Fire Amoeba’ Smashes Record For Heat Tolerance : ScienceAlert

    Extreme ‘Fire Amoeba’ Smashes Record For Heat Tolerance : ScienceAlert

    A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.

    The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning “fire amoeba from the Cascades”, as

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  • Heat seeker: Abu Dhabi researcher discovers distant planet is scorching 3,500°C

    Heat seeker: Abu Dhabi researcher discovers distant planet is scorching 3,500°C

    An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away – and found that some areas are as hot as 3,500°C.

    Dr Jasmina Blecic, from New York University Abu Dhabi, and her fellow…

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