Health

Smoking decline stalls since Covid as more young people take up the habit - study

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The number of adults giving up more than doubled but many young adults started smoking, researchers say.

Vikings in Sweden suffered from tooth decay

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a new study.

Yoga nidra might be a path to better sleep and improved memory

Practicing yoga nidra -- a kind of mindfulness training -- might improve sleep, cognition, learning, and memory, even in novices, according to a pilot study. After a two-week intervention with a cohort of novice practitioners, the researchers found that the percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep increased and that all tested cognitive abilities improved.

Deep neural networks show promise as models of human hearing

In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found most of these models generate internal representations that share properties of representations seen in the human brain when people are listening to the same sounds.

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