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  • Leading phenomena distracts the consumer from rational shopping

    Leading phenomena distracts the consumer from rational shopping

    Leading elements such as “Best Sellers”, “Most Popular”, “Especially for You”, “Phenomenon Preferences”, “Trending Now”, “Our Picks for You” on social media phenomena and e-commerce platforms significantly change the consumer's decision-making process. The simultaneous visibility of thousands of very similar alternatives in the digital market theoretically offers consumers more freedom, but in practice makes the…

  • New drug study against Alzheimer's

    New drug study against Alzheimer's

    According to a statement from the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), a Science Café event on Alzheimer's was organized by AFSU's Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology. YÖK President Prof. Dr. Erol Özvar said in his speech here that the contribution of universities to public health is not limited to the health services they provide.…

  • Solution for recycling lithium batteries from Turkish scientists

    Solution for recycling lithium batteries from Turkish scientists

    The problem of lithium-ion battery waste, which has increased rapidly in recent years with the widespread use of electric vehicles and portable electronic devices, poses new challenges to the environment and the economy. According to reports from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), it is estimated that by 2025, approximately 900,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries…

  • Research: Artificial intelligence outperforms doctors in making diagnoses

    Research: Artificial intelligence outperforms doctors in making diagnoses

    The study, which had a major impact on the medical world and was published in Science magazine, compared the performance of hundreds of doctors with artificial intelligence models. In the experiment, conducted on 76 patients admitted to a Boston hospital, artificial intelligence and doctors were given standard electronic health records consisting of patients' vital signs…

  • The African continent is splitting: a new ocean will form sooner than expected

    The African continent is splitting: a new ocean will form sooner than expected

    Geoscientist Christian Rowan of Columbia University explained that the Earth's crust in the region is much thinner than previously thought and that East Africa has reached a more advanced stage of the rifting process than expected. This period of time, which will pass in one “angle” on a geological scale, will permanently change the map…

  • Earthquake-affected students developed an unmanned ground vehicle made from recycled materials

    Earthquake-affected students developed an unmanned ground vehicle made from recycled materials

    Four friends from Reyhanlı, 12th grade students of Taipei Friendship Anatolian High School, designed an unmanned land vehicle using recycled materials. The students, who came together during their extracurricular time, developed the prototype of the unmanned ground vehicle, which they named “ŞAHUBERR.MG1,” after working for about three months. Designed by the students from container sheet…

  • Why can we read words even if they are complicated?

    Why can we read words even if they are complicated?

    The fact that we can easily read paragraphs with jumbled letters circulating on social media is often explained by the popular claim: “If only the first and last letters of the word are in the right place, the rest is unimportant.” However, linguistic research shows that this situation is more related to our brain's pattern…

  • Astronomers discovered the boundaries of the Milky Way

    Astronomers discovered the boundaries of the Milky Way

    The study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, analyzed age data from more than 100,000 giant stars obtained from comprehensive sky surveys such as APOGEE, LAMOST and Gaia. The data showed an interesting “U-curve” shaped relationship between the stellar age in the galaxy and the distance from the center. The secret of the “U”…

  • From CAPTCHA to navigation… Every movement on the Internet becomes data for artificial intelligence

    From CAPTCHA to navigation… Every movement on the Internet becomes data for artificial intelligence

    Among artificial intelligence technologies, large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, which can create humanoid texts, are used by many people every day. Text from books, websites, articles, and other written materials are used to train these models. Although educational materials can be collected from publicly available sources, recent discussions have focused…

  • Lake Salda becomes the center that inspires space exploration

    Lake Salda becomes the center that inspires space exploration

    The Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Salda Lake Application and Research Center for Science, Education and Conservation established in Salda is scheduled to open in the coming months. In the center, established to support scientific studies in the lake by the General Directorate of Natural Assets Protection of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate…