Hippocampal ripples and replay reveal how brain recombines past knowledge for flexible planning
When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, neuroscience studies suggest that the brain reorganizes past experiences and previously acquired knowledge, ...
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Evolution
Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades ...
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Colonial roots may explain why North and Latin America treat wildlife differently
How people view and treat wild animals can vary dramatically from one part of the world to another. In the first international study of wildlife values, research led by Colorado State University found a distinct difference ...
Plants & Animals
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Scientists identify hidden accelerant in Antarctic ice loss
For years, scientists have warned that melting Antarctic ice could push sea levels dangerously higher by the end of this century. But a new study led by University of Maryland scientist Madeleine Youngs suggests those warnings ...
Earth Sciences
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Sustainable chemistry: Iron substitutes noble metals in catalytic reactions
The production of many products used in everyday life and in industry, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, and coatings, requires chemical catalysts, often expensive noble metals with limited availability. Researchers at the ...
Analytical Chemistry
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A hidden threshold enables tunable control of liquid crystal helices for energy-efficient technologies
Liquid crystals are an integral part of modern technology, ranging from displays to advanced sensory systems. In a study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak ...
Soft Matter
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Tropical rivers emerge as biggest oxygen-loss hotspots in a warming world
According to a study published in Science Advances on May 15, global rivers are undergoing widespread and sustained deoxygenation driven by climate warming, among which tropical rivers are the most vulnerable ecosystems, ...
Environment
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With fewer than 50 adults remaining, Rice's whales carry a secret record that could rewrite what survival looks like
Baleen plates serve as whale diaries, preserving years of hormonal data. A new study in the journal PLOS One shows that, with so few Rice's whales left, the hormones locked in those plates offer clues about the species' stress ...
Heat-treated probiotic may protect sperm from BPA-linked damage, rat study suggests
Bisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in the production of plastic materials. However, there have recently been concerns about its toxicity in humans, leading to the European Union banning its use in food containers.
Medical Xpress
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Antiviral ensitrelvir cuts risk of COVID-19 in household contacts by two-thirds, study finds
The antiviral drug ensitrelvir prevents infection in household contacts of COVID-19 patients when given within 72 hours after symptom onset in the index patient, according to a Phase III randomized controlled trial published ...
Medical Xpress
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The Future is Interdisciplinary
Find out how ACS can accelerate your research to keep up with the discoveries that are pushing us into science’s next frontier
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A novel deep learning architecture for multi-source data fusion
Canada's Cohere embraces 'low drama' amid AI giant tumult
Humans are bad at making complex decisions. AI can call them out
Blind ambition: AI agents can turn tasks into digital disasters
Designing better quantum circuits with AI
Historic solar plane ends in Gulf crash after military test mission
Researchers solve longstanding problem in measuring semiconductor defects
We need to think smaller not bigger to future-proof AI
Thicker yet cooler: Novel magnet technology for next-generation motors
Wall design centers experience of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
Body-compatible electrode developed: Rigid on insertion, soft once inside
Lost in translation? Why human expertise still matters in the age of AI
Single-molecule RNA mapping may reveal how shape shifts steer health and disease
Researchers from A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a new method to study individual RNA molecules and reveal how their structures influence gene regulation, a fundamental process that affects ...
Biotechnology
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New targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy induces remission in pancreatic cancer model
A newly developed targeted radiopharmaceutical treatment can effectively slow tumor growth in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), according to new research published in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. ...
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Popular workout supplement may blunt heart benefits of exercise in women
A supplement widely promoted for athletic performance may interfere with some of the heart's beneficial adaptations to exercise, according to new Dalhousie University research published in Scientific Reports.
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Exploiting interfacial ionic mobility to make heat-moldable nanoparticle aggregates
If you have ever warped a cheap plastic cup by pouring coffee into it, then you have witnessed thermoplasticity in action. Thermoplasticity is the ability of a material to become pliable under heating. In industry, thermoplasticity ...
Nanophysics
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Ultra-thin membrane enables high-efficiency hydrogen fuel cells for transport and industry
Engineers have developed a new ultra-thin membrane that allows fuel cells to operate more efficiently at high temperatures by enabling proton transport without water, overcoming a key limitation in clean energy technologies.
Energy & Green Tech
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Coal pollution is cutting solar power output worldwide, study finds
New research led by the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL) has revealed that pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations, ...
Environment
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Dense soils may spread earthquake surface ruptures into wider damage zones, particle models suggest
Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil density strongly influences ...
Earth Sciences
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Q&A: Evolution may reshape how urban forests, wetlands and reefs protect cities
Over the past decade, cities around the world have increasingly turned to nature-based infrastructure to become more resilient in the face of a changing climate. Urban forests provide shade during heat waves and improve air ...
Evolution
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Bacterial energy enzyme reveals dual-trigger sodium pump mechanism, offering antibiotic clues
The Na+-NQR enzyme is vital for energy production in pathogenic bacteria like the one that causes cholera, making it a highly promising target for new antibiotics. Researchers combined modified artificial intelligence techniques ...
Biotechnology
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Climate change costs lives by breaking down social connection, says study
Climate change is widely understood as an environmental and economic threat, but new research from the University of Sydney shows it is also a growing social crisis, weakening the relationships people rely on to survive.
Social Sciences
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Fair matching systems can still produce unequal outcomes, new research finds
A computerized matching system can be designed to be fair and still produce unequal outcomes if the people using it do not understand how it works, according to new research published in Organization Science that shows that ...
Sunlight-powered generation of correlated photon pairs
Pairs of correlated or entangled photons are a foundational resource in quantum optics. They are most commonly produced through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), a nonlinear optical process that typically relies ...
Climate warming causes bleaching in key Arctic lichen, study finds
Long-term climate warming is causing a bleaching effect in a key Arctic lichen species, according to new research led by researchers in the School of GeoSciences and British Antarctic Survey. Their study shows how rising ...
Researchers identify enzyme that prevents chromosome breaks during DNA copying
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have identified how a key enzyme called ATR protects DNA from breaking when cells copy damaged genetic material, a discovery that could affect how certain cancer ...
Warming climate favors shallower cyclones, challenging current risk assessments
As tropical cyclones (TCs) are among the most destructive natural hazards worldwide, understanding how TCs change under climate warming is of critical importance. While substantial progress has been made in projecting changes ...
Physicists create hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute
Eighty years ago, Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly launched the age of electronic computing by harnessing electrons to solve complex numerical problems with ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic ...
How 'gentle power' leads to successful environmental conservation
Environmental conservation is one of the most pressing debates across the world. For decades, it has often been viewed as a choice between strict government regulation and voluntary community action. However, a new research ...
New scenarios needed to address climate crisis, say scientists
Scientists, including those working with the Earth Commission, are calling for a fundamental rethink of how the world imagines its future, arguing that today's dominant climate and biodiversity models are too narrow to deal ...
Patrolling males and waiting females—observing reproductive behavior of black sea bream in the wild
Ultrasonic tracking in Hiroshima Bay shows that male and female black sea bream move differently during the spawning season, offering a novel discovery into the reproductive behavior of a broadcast-spawning sparid fish in ...
Genomic analysis predicts guide dog success
Guide dogs help thousands of people with visual disabilities navigate daily life. While guide dogs provide tremendous benefits, the current training program faces serious inefficiencies, since a large percentage never actually ...
Researchers prove 'forever chemicals' can last longer than 3 decades
The fresh air, picturesque vistas and pristine bush of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney draw millions of visitors a year. Unfortunately, the Blue Mountains are also the site of a controversial investigation into water contamination ...
How studying friendship has changed the way I understand my own loneliness
A few years ago, I had just moved into a house.
Who shops at farmers markets in the US?
People who shop at the more than 8,700 farmers markets operating in the U.S. either year-round or seasonally generally fall into six distinct groups. Three of them are more interested in farmers markets than the others. I ...
Experimentally validated AI model predicts virulence of tomato yellow leaf curl virus
A CBBL research team led by Professor Balachandran Manavalan from the Department of Integrative Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University has developed DeepTYLCV, an accurate and interpretable artificial intelligence model ...
Future big droughts may be worse than we think—NZ's past shows why
For an agricultural nation like New Zealand, severe drought is one of the most ominous consequences of a warming planet.
How reindeer herds, nature and Sámi culture can thrive when forests are restored across northern Europe
Political debates about the future of forests in Sweden and the EU are reaching an impasse. Producing more wood comes at the expense of nature and the storage of carbon within trees and soils. Conserving and restoring more ...
NASA draws on industry for Mars telecommunications network
On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network.
Homelessness could be 4 times higher in a decade due to impacts from climate change, study suggests
A study on the future of Australia's housing market has revealed that even well-intended housing market interventions could significantly worsen housing affordability and homelessness in the country due to the impacts of ...
Picturing Earth in a new light
Maps can show more than just where things are—they can also show how things change. New maps of artificial light reveal a planet that has been reshaping its nights through patterns of brightening and dimming.
Attracting young women to careers in construction
As Australia's construction industry faces a critical skills shortage, new research from Adelaide University shows how the industry can better support women and therefore strengthen the future workforce.
