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University of Oslo researchers found about 65% of preschool boys chose a cartoon character from the larger of two groups, against 43% of girls. In white US adults, a similar choice tracked acceptance of group dominance, though only weakly.
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Mathew Domeier's University of Oslo team finds four fast bursts of true polar wander recorded in ancient sea levels over the past 190 million years. During those bursts, he says, the poles moved faster than most tectonic plates do, fast enough to possibly affect climate.
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Three theorists at the University of Oslo worked out what an ideal shutter does to one photon. Inside a small transition region, the truncated state turns out to need a classical mixture and a quantum superposition of many photons.
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Marita Skjuve's doctoral work interviewed 50 people already close to the chatbot Replika and concluded the emotions are real. The design shows how deep those ties can run; counting how many users form them would take a different study.
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An Oslo doctoral study stressed acinar cell lines from two rat salivary glands and found the parotid cells shed receptors and channels that trigger secretion while the submandibular cells shored up their defenses.
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Scientists in Oslo scanned cognitively healthy older adults for nearly 20 years. They then read the earlier images backwards. The divergence they found sits well outside the window amyloid-PET is able to define.
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A new grading method scores models on satellite radiation trends rather than past surface temperatures, and the ones previously discounted come out on top.
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Oslo researchers report that placental FcRn ferries IgG to the fetus but largely excludes albumin, and that fusing albumin to an antibody keeps the antibody out as well.
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