Should researchers use AI to write papers? Group aims for community-driven standards
When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing,
which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI issues for the past year and a half
. The group behind the effort wants to replace the piecemeal landscape of current guidelines with a single set of standards that represents a consensus of the research community.
Known as CANGARU, the initiative is a partnership between res...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Plans to expand African vaccine production face steep hurdles
In March 2022, when the pandemic was still raging, the messenger RNA (mRNA) company Moderna announced it would build a $500 million plant in Kenya to manufacture half a billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine annually. “
This is major
,” Kenyan President William Ruto said at the time. The plant would help reduce Africa’s dependence on vaccines produced elsewhere, Ruto said—a situation that had turned disastrous during the pandemic—and bring economic benefits as well.
But Moderna may never break ground on the Kenya factory. On 11 April, the company said it had
“paused its efforts”
becau...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Young toads are teaching Australian lizards to avoid deadly snacks
Releasing 200,000 eggs and young of a toxic invasive species might seem to be a sure way to make a bad situation worse. But by doing just that in Western Australia, conservation biologists have begun to rescue the region’s largest lizard.
Yellow spotted monitor lizards usually die after eating a single adult cane toad, an introduced pest with toxic skin secretions that has wreaked havoc on Australia’s native wildlife. But if these lizards first taste the species’ young, which are only slightly toxic, the predators learn to avoid eating the lethal adults. As a result,
they survive even after a wave of adult...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Giant planets ran amok soon after Solar System ’s birth
In its youth, the Solar System underwent a momentous upheaval: Gravitational tugs between the giant planets threw them off-track, causing Jupiter’s orbit to jump closer to the Sun, while Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were flung outward. The gravity of the rampaging giants scattered Pluto and other icy bodies to the Kuiper belt, shepherded the asteroid belt into its current location, and sent countless bodies crashing into the inner Solar System.
For many years, researchers believed this “giant planet instability” occurred 600 million years after the Solar System’s birth 4.57 billion years ago, based on the ages...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A PRISMA Scoping Review to Explore Interventions to Prevent Firearm-Related Injury and Suicide in Older Adults
CONCLUSIONS: Further research into adapting interventions to meet the clinical needs of older adults and treatment efficacy trials is necessary.CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Training healthcare providers to conduct firearm safety interventions with older adults may be an acceptable and impactful avenue to prevent suicide.PMID:38626064 | DOI:10.1080/07317115.2024.2339366 (Source: Clinical Gerontologist)
Source: Clinical Gerontologist - April 16, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Lakshmi Chennapragada Terra Osterberg Madison Strouse Sarah R Sullivan Chana Silver Mary LaMarca Caroline Boucher Emilia Fonseca Marianne Goodman Source Type: research
