Republicans reveal plot to stop'insurrectionist' democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani being sworn in as NYC mayor using Civil War-era clause Texas governor warns any New Yorkers trying to flee south after Mamdani's win will be slapped with 100% tariff I won't ever forget what I saw at Andy Cohen's party. He may admit he's hooking up with guys on every dating app but this is the truth about men like him: KENNEDY As melatonin's terrifying link to fatal heart condition is revealed, experts weigh in on sleep aid's safety Warren Buffett's $6billion stock exit is his loudest warning yet Taylor Swift enjoys girls' night with squad member Gigi Hadid in NYC after Travis Kelce's ex took swipe Wicked star Jonathan Bailey becomes first ever openly gay man to be named People's Sexiest Man Alive Karoline Leavitt, 28, is accused of'airbrushing' husband, 60, in glamor White House snaps George W. Bush's hilarious reaction to 315lb Cardinals star Calais Campbell caught on ref's mic at Cowboys game Father reveals'radical faith' spiral of American son killed in hail of arrows by reclusive tribe as new believers consider following him to isolated island Justin Bieber's secret world: Faith, basketball and what friends say he's really like off-camera We've never been so sure of an imminent financial crash: Industry leaders across ALL sectors come together to say these signs of US economic meltdown are undeniable Sex aids and poppers... the sordid discoveries made by royal aides after party Andrew threw for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell - and the truth about those massages: ROBERT JOBSON Blake Lively demands It Ends With Us producer hand over full'graphic' footage of'naked' wife giving birth she called'porn' Meet Diddy's new prison pal: Disgraced rapper spotted with well-known sports star-turned-convict Shohei Ohtani makes rare speech in English as Dodgers star's wife soaks up the spotlight at World Series parade Insane survival skills of dad who got lost in wilderness for 20 days as he's found alive China's president Xi caught knifing Trump in brutal attack just hours after historic summit Rollercoaster camera caught utter terror on people's faces after seat belt failed on 208ft ride that travels at 75mph Pictured: Sweet boy, 8, wearing Spider Man robe was'killed and stuffed in cooler by mom and grandma' Being'hangry' is NOT a real thing! It might be time for Snickers to rethink its slogan - as a new study has revealed there's no truth to the phrase'you're not you when you're hungry'. Simply skipping a meal while fasting does not slow down thinking skills, scientists say. This contradicts the well-known phenomenon of becoming angry because you are peckish, also known as being'hangry'.

Artificial intelligence can do just as well as humans, if not better, when it comes to persuading others in a debate, and not just because it cannot shout, a study has found. Experts say the results are concerning, not least as it has potential implications for election integrity. "If persuasive AI can be deployed at scale, you can imagine armies of bots microtargeting undecided voters, subtly nudging them with tailored political narratives that feel authentic," said Francesco Salvi, the first author of the research from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He added that such influence was hard to trace, even harder to regulate and nearly impossible to debunk in real time. "I would be surprised if malicious actors hadn't already started to use these tools to their advantage to spread misinformation and unfair propaganda," Salvi said.

Humans don't just lie to deceive: sometimes we lie to avoid hurting others, breaking one social norm to uphold another. As robots begin to transition from tools to team members working alongside humans, scientists need to find out how these norms about deception apply to robots. To investigate this, researchers asked people to give their opinions of three scenarios in which robots were deceptive. They found that a robot lying about the external world to spare someone pain was acceptable, but a robot lying about its own capabilities wasn't -- and that people usually blame third parties like developers for unacceptable deceptions. Honesty is the best policy… most of the time.

When it comes to neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease is considered one of the worst. It promotes the onset of dementia--an irreversible decline in thinking, memory, and ability to perform simple everyday tasks--in around 60 to 70 percent of patients. Now, researchers have suggested that the disease can be divided into four distinct subtypes; potentially opening doors for individualized treatment among sufferers. In an international study, scientists illustrated that tau--proteins found in neurons that are associated with neurodegenerative conditions--spread through the brain in four distinct patterns. This leads to varied symptoms and outcomes among affected individuals. Machine learning (ML) was leveraged by the authors to distinguish between the different subtypes.

Kate Daniels, from Willow Farm in Worcestershire, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while the scientists might have been impressed, "I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone that works with pigs".

Shattered remains of once majestic works of art can now be digitally recreated and restored to their former glory thanks to a team of archaeologists. Researchers have built an AI-powered algorithm that predicts what should surround a surviving archaeological fragment and locates its neighbouring piece. A virtual image is then produced which aids in the meticulous physical reconstruction of the item. Fragile remnants of the past often resurface in scattered pieces and full restoration is a time consuming and arduous process. They are often not'clean' and'nicely behaved'; rather they are broken, eroded, noisy and ultimately extremely challenging Archaeologists at Technion and the University of Haifa in Israel say this programme could save endless hours in the restoration of historical items.

People with larger brains also have better memory, logic and reactions, scientists have found. The major discovery follows 200 years of research which attempted to find a link between brain size and cognitive performance. MRI scans revealed the link as scientists studied 13,600 people in the largest study of its kind ever undertaken. Researchers from the US and Netherlands compared brain size from MRI scans with cognitive performance and educational achievements. The results of the study, published in the journal Psychological Science, are the most comprehensive example of this type of investigation and is the largest of its kind.

Scientists find that the whiskers of harbor seals help them distinguish predator from prey -- even from a distance. Scientists find that the whiskers of harbor seals help them distinguish predator from prey -- even from a distance. Using lessons learned from harbor seals and artificial intelligence, engineers in California may be on to a new way to track enemy submarines. The idea started with research published in 2001 on the seals. Scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany showed that blindfolded seals could still track a robotic fish. The researchers concluded that the seals did this by detecting the strength and direction of the whirling vortex the robot created as it swam through the water.

Humans will actually be very happy to meet aliens, according to new research. Hollywood might have led us to expect that an alien invasion would be greeted with tanks and guns. But some of the first serious research into how people would feel about meeting extraterrestrials shows that we would be far more positive than you might think. "If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it," said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum. "So far, there's been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research."

Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90 -- breaking the record for the star with the most exoplanets and, for the first time, tying with our own. The planet Kepler-90i, described at a briefing Thursday and in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, demonstrates for the first time that other stars can host planetary systems as populous as our own solar system. The findings also establish the growing role that neural networks and other machine learning techniques could play in the hunt for more elusive planets outside our own solar neighborhood. "Kepler has already shown us that most stars have planets," said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington. "Today Kepler confirms that stars can have large families of planets just like our solar system." Kepler-90i sits around a sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco.