Plants & Animals
Smaller ants devote more of their resting energy budget to their brains
The energy required for brains of different sizes to function could play a role in how different species evolved over time. While the energetic costs of brains have long been deemed important in evolution, direct measurements ...
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Earth Sciences
As ancient oceans warmed, carbon export and fish productivity surged
Ocean fish stocks have been increasingly exploited over time, and remote sensing shows they have declined in the open ocean over the last three decades, particularly in the tropics. But it's uncertain how fish populations ...
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Supersonic waves could explain the strange orbits of hot Jupiters and Neptunes
Using advanced new simulations, a team of astronomers in the U.S. has developed a promising new theory for how giant, gaseous exoplanets migrate into stiflingly close orbits around their host stars. Led by J. J. Zanazzi at ...
Can gravitational fields break and reconnect? Einstein's equations suggest they can
More than a century after Einstein first devised the equations that describe gravity, physicists are still finding new ways of interpreting them. Luca Comisso, an associate research scientist in Columbia University's departments ...
General Physics
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Rarely seen deep-sea barreleye fish filmed in 4K
During a recent expedition aboard the research vessel David Packard, MBARI scientists encountered a rarely seen barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). This sighting is MBARI's 11th observation of this unique deep-sea fish ...
Plants & Animals
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Against all expectations, researchers control the magnetic core of a single atom
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) have succeeded in controlling the magnetism in the nucleus of a single atom with radio waves. This came as a surprise: until now, physicists believed that this ...
General Physics
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AI often passes for human, but asking follow-up questions can trip it up
Reading a conversation and deciding whether a chatbot wrote it can be surprisingly difficult. In a study involving more than 72,000 judgments of human and AI responses, participants frequently mistook machine-generated captions, ...
Single dose of fast-acting psychedelic nasal spray shows promise for stubborn depression
One in three individuals with major depressive disorder does not get relief from standard daily antidepressant medications. The up-and-coming psychedelic therapeutics like psilocybin or LSD do show promise of quick relief, ...
Colorectal cancer in younger patients shows distinct cellular and gene-activity patterns
Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, along with researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal ...
Medical Xpress
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Immune changes linked to diabetes could guide development of new cancer treatments
New research in The Journal of Immunology uncovers how high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) may protect against certain cancers like melanoma, breast and colon cancer. T1D has been associated with a ...
Medical Xpress
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Tech Xplore
Fluent language makes a hallucinatory chatbot just as credible as a curt, flawless one
How to get started with AI agents, and which are best for specific tasks
Semiconductors could sidestep a key solar-energy trade-off through a newly identified mechanism
Designing new nuclear alloys, element by element
Spray coating creates power-generating fibers without high-voltage equipment
Moving toward emission-free aluminum production
What is artificial general intelligence—and is it already here?
AI may quickly generate ideas, but working with people leads to more creative ones
Three ways professional gaming is becoming geopolitical
Personalized ovarian cancer vaccines spark immunity in phase 1 trial
Rapidly dividing cancer cells can develop DNA mutations that produce abnormal proteins called antigens, which are unique to each patient's cancer. Scientists are now testing personalized cancer vaccines that target these ...
The phantom lighthouse: New research explains one of Australia's strangest illusions
There are two lighthouses on Lady Elliot Island, at the southernmost tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The first was built in 1873, but was decommissioned in 1995 when the second took over the job of warning ships off ...
Mathematics
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Restoring an amino acid can diminish age-related inflammation
Sustained low-level inflammation is a hallmark of the aging process. The accumulating damage persistently activates the innate immune system—the body's first line of defense—leading to what is known as inflammaging, functional ...
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A spider named for Stephen Colbert has a genome about 50% larger than ours
Many spiders reach their maximum size about this time of year, having spent the summer eating, which helps explain their starring role in Halloween decorations. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found ...
Plants & Animals
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Ultrathin metal layer boosts spin-related signals, opening a door to ultralow-power electronics
Researchers at Kyushu University have found that an ultrathin layer of iridium manganese (IrMn) can improve two spin-related signals in a structure made of a magnetic insulator and a platinum film. By examining how spin currents ...
Condensed Matter
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Atomic magnetism reveals why iron, but not chromium, can produce ammonia using sunlight
Two nearly identical materials have completely different chemical behavior. Research teams at the University of Vienna and TU Wien studied catalysts that use the energy of sunlight to produce ammonia. Surprisingly, when the ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Arsenic drug combo resurrects 'guardian of the genome' to fight aggressive blood cancers
A combination cancer therapy that relies on the reactivation of a tumor suppressor protein to kill leukemic and other blood cancer cells has shown promise in a small pilot trial.
Macromolecular crowding could help build artificial cell systems
Macromolecular crowding can serve as a design tool for controlling the formation and organization of synthetic DNA droplets, a study from Science Tokyo reveals. Researchers investigated this strategy using DNA nanostars and ...
Cell & Microbiology
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150-year-old mystery about the identity of an 'extinct' giant crane solved
Scientists at Bournemouth University (BU) have solved a 150-year-old mystery about the identity of an extinct giant crane that lived in Europe over 20,000 years ago. The work is published in the journal Royal Society Open ...
Paleontology & Fossils
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Molecular architecture determines tomato plant resistance to its main pest
An international study investigating why wild tomatoes are more resistant to the tomato leafminer (Phthorimaea absoluta) than cultivated varieties revealed that the secret lies in the spatial structure of a plant defense ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Struggling with your career? This psychological intervention may help
Job loss and career uncertainty can take a toll that extends well beyond the workplace. New research suggests that a psychological intervention based on the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, may help ...
Children bear the brunt of climate change, warns new report
Climate change is posing an increasing threat to the health and well-being of children and young people in Australia and New Zealand, with rising exposure to heat waves and widespread climate-related distress among young ...
First individual-based model of basking sharks replicates complicated social and environmental drivers of behavior
A new study published in Individual-Based Ecology presents the first individual-based model (IBM) of basking shark behavior.
Q&A: Are polls trustworthy?
In the final stretch to the midterm elections, polls have come out tracking candidates' likelihood of victory at the local, state and federal levels. According to Tim Servinsky, project manager at Penn State Harrisburg's ...
How to keep electricity costs down amid uncertain federal policy
Keeping the lights on nationwide is a feat of engineering that depends on millions of miles of power lines and thousands of power-generation plants.
Prosecutors invoke gender stereotypes in capital cases against women
In 2001, Brenda Andrew was convicted of murdering her husband, and in 2004 she was sentenced to death.
American jobs offer more autonomy—and more stress
American jobs have become increasingly stressful over the past two decades—but workers have also gained greater ability to exercise independence and make decisions at work.
Philippine island fights rising seas with nature, not concrete
For years, residents of a flood-prone Philippine island north of Manila have elevated their homes atop layer upon layer of concrete, only to see floodwaters threaten them again.
Why the WHO must declare climate change a public health emergency
Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The Northern Hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The Southern Hemisphere now faces a summer ...
End of COVID-era SNAP emergency food assistance linked to increased child maltreatment rates
A new study has found that in U.S. counties that ended COVID-19 pandemic-era Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Allotments, child maltreatment rates went up. The findings from the study in the American ...
Optimistic climate futures for local communities in the UK imagined in a new report
A new report co-authored by researchers from the University of York and WWF highlights how local communities across the U.K. imagine positive, sustainable, and resilient futures for the places where they live and work.
How the Indian Ocean is linked to Europe's early-winter rain and storms
When we think about Europe's winter weather, the Indian Ocean is probably not the first place we look. We might picture Atlantic storms, cold air arriving from the north or rain sweeping across the Mediterranean. In my research, ...
Q&A: Decoding the cell—a conversation with a computational biologist
Computational biologist Christina Leslie, Ph.D., has spent nearly two decades at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) building computational tools that help make sense of some of the most complex data in biology.
Schools increasingly affected by poor air quality as wildfire smoke becomes more common
American children are increasingly exposed to air pollution as wildfire smoke becomes more common, and some schools and child care centers struggle to keep indoor breathing conditions clean, a new national study shows.
Medieval ghost stories featured rotten flesh, the walking dead and spoon‑stealing spirits
Stories of wandering spirits and the restless dead were common in the Middle Ages. These ghostly encounters were recorded in a wide variety of medieval literature.
Drones could help weather forecasters more accurately predict winter storms
Weather drones are being tested to help update forecasts of extreme weather more quickly, and could help us prepare earlier for upcoming winter storms.
Relocating amphibians and reptiles to make way for human development rarely delivers long-term conservation success
Relocating amphibians and reptiles to protect them from development rarely leads to long-term conservation success, a new UBC-led global review has found. The findings highlight the importance of habitat protection rather ...
A new physics-informed AI tool aims to predict wildfire spread in real time and assist wildfire response
A new AI system that NYU Fire Research Group describes as a digital twin of an active wildfire has, in early testing, shown the ability to forecast how a fire will spread in near real time.
'Let nothing be forgotten': Holocaust survivors' memorial books honored lives lost and vibrant hometowns
My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Kostopol, Ukraine. Years after she passed away, I was trying to learn more about her life before the war—something I knew very little about. When I found a book called "Sefer Kostopol"—Hebrew ...
Study finds celebrity digital twins may boost trust in customer service
Imagine losing your credit card, logging into your bank's website for help and being greeted by a virtual customer service representative who looks and sounds exactly like actor Hugh Jackman. The person helping you isn't ...
