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Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key | New Scientist

AI Creativity Works Best in Moderation, Study Suggests

Research highlighted by New Scientist suggests creativity improves most when AI is used in moderation.
The report argues large language models can provide useful perspective shifts without replacing human judgment.
Over-reliance on AI may reduce originality, ownership, and motivation in creative work.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2026·via newscientist.com

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Study finds high school track experience gives baseball players an edge MLB teams overlook

High School Track May Be Baseball’s Hidden Development Edge

Researchers linked nearly 97,000 historical survey responses to professional baseball outcomes.
Players who participated in high school track performed better professionally than baseball-only peers.
MLB teams did not appear to value track experience in draft decisions or signing bonuses.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2026·via phys.org

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EU's AI 'guardrails' cannot absorb rapid changes in technology, study warns

Study Warns EU AI Rulebook Is Too Rigid for Fast-Moving Tech

A new study says the EU’s AI regulatory architecture is too rigid for fast-moving technological change.
Researchers argue the framework is difficult to enforce and adapt.
The paper contrasts the EU model with more concrete U.S. sector-by-sector regulation.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 17, 2026·via phys.org

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Disrupted antioxidant balance linked to the development of 'Skellefteå disease'

Redox Imbalance Offers New Clues in Skellefteå Disease

Umeå University researchers found disrupted antioxidant balance in patients with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis.
Elevated pyroglutamate and increased IDO1 activity linked disease status to oxidative stress and inflammation.
The study suggests biomarkers could help identify mutation carriers at higher risk of symptomatic disease.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 17, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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SpudCell, the first synthetic cell system built from non-living components to complete a full cell cycle

Synthetic cell milestone stops short of creating life

A prototype synthetic cell assembled from non-living components completed a full cell cycle.
The system is not yet considered living because it cannot replicate indefinitely or evolve autonomously.
Open-sourcing the project could accelerate work on minimal, better-understood cell systems.

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 2, 2026·via newscientist.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jul 1, 2026·via livescience.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 28, 2026·via universetoday.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 23, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 22, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 19, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 17, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 14, 2026·via newatlas.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 13, 2026·via interestingengineering.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 12, 2026·via science.org

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 5, 2026·via refractor.io

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 1, 2026·via newscientist.com

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 1, 2026·via the-decoder.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 30, 2026·via interestingengineering.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 30, 2026·via the-decoder.com

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DT Editorial Team·May 25, 2026·via phys.org

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StormWall Proposal Aims to Blunt Solar Superstorms

Researchers propose a six-satellite system called StormWall to reduce the impact of solar superstorms.
The concept would release gas into the magnetosphere to form a temporary protective plasma wall.
The study frames the approach as a more proactive alternative to forecasting and infrastructure hardening alone.

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Polarised emission of the black hole at the heart of M87. The lines mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole (Credit : EHT Collaboration)

Black hole merger signal offers a new view of the event horizon

Researchers used the unusually strong gravitational-wave event GW250114 to analyze black hole physics near the event horizon.
The team says it isolated faint “direct waves” that carry information from the final instant before the merger completed.
The analysis reportedly yielded estimates of the remnant black hole’s spin and surface gravity strength.
If replicated, the method could turn future gravitational-wave detections into stronger tests of gravity in extreme conditions.

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Spontaneous and voluntary laughter come from two different brain regions, researchers reveal

Why the Brain Produces Two Different Kinds of Laughter

A review in Trends in Neurosciences argues that spontaneous and voluntary laughter arise from distinct neural networks.
The analysis draws on awake brain-stimulation procedures, clinical reports, and animal studies.
The framework could help explain why some disorders affect emotional and social laughter differently.

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Coordinated brainstem slow waves may determine when it's time for REM sleep

Brainstem Slow Waves May Help Set the Timing of REM Sleep

Researchers recorded large populations of brainstem neurons during sleep in mice.
Slow coordinated fluctuations appeared before transitions from non-REM sleep to REM sleep.
The findings suggest REM timing may depend on gradual population-level brain dynamics.

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A renewable cell source for cancer immunotherapy could make off-the-shelf treatments possible

USC team reports renewable cell source for macrophage cancer therapies

USC-led researchers reported a way to extensively expand granulocyte-monocyte progenitors in the lab.
The progenitor cells can be engineered to target cancer markers and support broader immune responses.
The work suggests a scalable starting point for macrophage-based, potentially off-the-shelf cell therapies.

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Antisocial behavior in young people linked to changes throughout the brain

Large Brain Study Links Youth Conduct Problems to Widespread Structural Differences

Researchers analyzed brain data from more than 14,000 children and adolescents.
Greater conduct problems were associated with thinner or smaller cortical measures and differences in subcortical regions.
The pattern appeared across a continuum of severity, not only in diagnosed conduct disorder.
The findings support earlier and more tailored intervention models rather than diagnosis-only frameworks.

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The robotic tentacle during underwater lab trials at the Italian Institute of Technology

Octopus-inspired robot arm distributes intelligence to its suckers

The arm copies the octopus by distributing sensing and reaction across its body.
Each sucker independently detects contact, force, and direction.
The robot does not rely on cameras or centralized control for basic grip response.
The approach is designed for unpredictable underwater terrain.

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World's first working nuclear clocks built after decades of effort

Thorium nuclear clock reaches working milestone

Candidate metadata reports the first working thorium-based nuclear clocks.
Nuclear clocks have been pursued for decades as a precision breakthrough.
The development could matter for fundamental physics and future timing systems.

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Change in smoke PM2.5 with up to 500,000 acres treated (via brightsurf.com)

Science Publishes Study on Low-Severity Fire and Air Pollution

Science published a June 2026 paper on low-severity fire and air pollution.
The supplied source confirms the title, journal, and issue placement.
Detailed findings are not available in the provided source text.

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Study finds bird masturbation is widespread and evolutionarily old

Researchers compiled evidence from 120 bird species.
The behavior appears in both captive and wild birds.
The findings challenge the idea that masturbation is inherently abnormal in birds.

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Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long?

Arctic sea-ice thickening trials show promise but uncertain payoff

Trials in Canada and Norway showed seawater pumping can thicken Arctic sea ice.
The Norway experiment increased ice thickness but did not extend survival beyond a control site.
Researchers in Canada said their trial did slow summer melting.
Scientists say the long-term climate value of the technique remains an open question.

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Study finds AI coding-agent use is sharply uneven across social science

Anthropic found coding-agent use varies far more than general AI use across social science.
Researchers with typically male names were reported to use coding agents more than twice as often as those with typically female names.
Economists showed the highest adoption, while education researchers showed the lowest.
Respondents were optimistic about personal productivity gains but less positive about AI’s impact on the field overall.

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Scientists stack three silicon layers to build faster, denser 3D chips

Low-Temperature 3D Chip Stacking Points to a New Path for Silicon Scaling

Researchers reported monolithic 3D silicon chips built at low temperatures.
The work is framed around near-perfect manufacturing yields.
Low-temperature processing matters because stacked layers must avoid damaging underlying circuitry.
If scalable, the approach could strengthen a post-Moore's-Law path for denser chips.

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Helpful chatbots may be worse at acting like people

Researchers used a dataset covering roughly 208,000 participants and 26 million responses.
Base models beat post-trained assistant variants at predicting human answers.
The result suggests usefulness and human-likeness can diverge as models are tuned.

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'Butterfly' molecule spotted at last, completing a 20-year quantum zoo hunt

Physicists Finally Spot the Elusive ‘Butterfly’ Molecule

Researchers say they detected the last missing member of a predicted family of exotic molecules.
The butterfly molecule belongs to the ultralong-range Rydberg molecule class.
Its creation required ultracold rubidium atoms and carefully tuned laser pulses.

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