Earth Sciences
Deep-Earth seismic anomalies may be explained by newly discovered manganese compound
Scientists know that manganese, in its various oxide forms, plays a significant role in Earth's geochemical cycles. However, the exact forms of manganese, their abundance and the mechanisms behind these cycles that occur ...
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Environment
Climate change may shift hailstorms toward Earth's poles—new study
Everyone has a storm story—whether it's that time you just escaped a downpour, or the hailstorm that wrote off your car. Even though hailstorms are relatively rare, they cause significant damage. Two new studies shed light ...
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'BBQ sauce' phase may link little red dots to quasars
Everyone knows that finding the right sauce recipe can make or break a barbecue, but now astronomers are using BBQSORS (pronounced "barbecue sauce") as part of the recipe to explain quasars, some of the brightest objects ...
Astronomy
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How honeybees really crown their queens
For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges. But new research suggests queens are created through a more elaborate ...
Plants & Animals
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Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life
Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their origins presented a puzzling gap in the fossil record. While nearly every other major animal group made ...
Evolution
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Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk
A hailstorm can undo a season's work in minutes. It can strike quickly and unevenly, shredding wheat, bruising fruit, flattening crops—while also leaving neighboring paddocks untouched. In a new Nature Climate Change study, ...
Environment
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1 in 5 teens turn to AI chatbots for mental health advice, but a majority of them keep it secret
The mental health crisis among young people is on the rise. Unfortunately, limited access to professional help still remains one of the largest roadblocks to effectively dealing with mental health issues. Soon after AI chatbots ...
Injectable hydrogel relieves osteoarthritis pain and repairs cartilage in preclinical tests
For millions of people living with osteoarthritis, daily life can involve a frustrating cycle of pain and stiffness. While current treatments like over-the-counter medications or steroid injections can temporarily dull the ...
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New antibiotic kills drug-resistant bacteria by targeting previously unknown vulnerability
Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a new antibiotic that kills some of the world's most dangerous and drug-resistant bacteria—and does so by targeting a previously unknown vulnerability, opening the door to ...
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Conductive plastic mimics heart cell ion signaling for first time
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, researchers at LiU have used organic electronics based on conductive plastics. The findings, published ...
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Tech Xplore
Reusable cups made easy: What consumers really want
Robots, supply strain: Five hot topics at Computex
Turbo-charging battery research with AI: An ambitious vision
Trump signs AI order giving government access to powerful models
100kW fully superconducting aviation motor developed for electrical aircraft
Ultra-thin semiconductors overcome performance limits with localized thick-contact design
Microsoft unveils AI models in push for independence from OpenAI
Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you
AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality
World-first spintronic p-bit on silicon chip points toward larger AI-ready p-computers
Anthropic expands access to powerful Mythos AI model
This researcher put AI in the big game. It did not play well
AI unearths soccer talent beyond scouts' radar
New 3D gaze forecasting could help AR devices render scenes before users look
'Baked' yeast-based materials power 3D-printed architectural materials
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new, entirely bio-based material from a somewhat unexpected ingredient: yeast. The material is 3D printed and customized for use in architectural ...
Engineering
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Violating the 3rd law of black hole mechanics in vacuum gravity
Black holes, regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, have been widely studied over the past decades, due to their unique and intriguing properties. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts ...
Whiskey chemistry propels microscopic machines through liquid
Whisky-inspired chemicals could help power a new generation of microscopic machines, according to researchers who have discovered a way to make tiny particles "swim" through liquid using compounds linked to the production ...
Nanophysics
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Solar sails edge closer to reality, but interstellar travel is another story
From planetary rovers and asteroid sample return missions to the recent Artemis II flight above the far side of the moon, we are seemingly good at doing space. But our achievements still do not match many of our space dreams, ...
A routine soccer skill sets off brain injury signals, and the blood shows it fast
The iconic header goal scored by Cristiano Ronaldo in a Manchester United vs. Real Madrid Champions League game was a marvel to watch. While heading a soccer ball can help a team climb the rankings, studies suggest it may ...
Ancient cave lion genomes reveal a distinct lineage
A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago. The results also show ...
Plants & Animals
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Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from precision micromachining to eye surgery to optical frequency combs, the Nobel ...
Optics & Photonics
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Unexpected chromosome interaction fuels aggressive cancers, researchers discover
Published in Nature, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center report a previously unrecognized change in how the cell's genetic material is packaged into structures called ...
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Detailed molecular picture of tooth enamel reveals adaptations to diet
From chewing to chomping to grinding, teeth suffer from a lifetime of repeated mechanical stress. It makes sense, then, that enamel is one of the hardest natural materials.
Bio & Medicine
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Cells have a built-in 'seatbelt' against sudden stress
When cells experience sudden physical stress, like stretching or pressure, they can activate a fast, protective mechanism that shields their nuclei from destruction, according to a new study published in the Biophysical Journal. ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Studying impact flashes to detect missile and meteorite composition
Southwest Research Institute, or SwRI, is studying impact flashes generated by high-speed collisions. One application of understanding impact flashes is to remotely identify what materials are involved in the collisions. ...
UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in ...
Q&A: Experts discuss rise of profanity from politicians
In American politics, cursing and "four-letter words" are no longer confined to hot mics or hidden behind closed doors. Politicians and pundits are increasingly using so-called "bad words" in speeches, social media posts ...
Why do male chimpanzees throw rocks at the same trees for more than a decade?
Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base.
The push to standardize ESG scores could make corporate greenwashing easier, not harder
Three-quarters of S&P 500 companies now tie a portion of their CEO's pay to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. They typically include carbon emissions, workforce diversity and worker safety, among others.
A lot of 'recycled' plastic is being burned overseas—and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems
Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That's how much plastic waste the world is predicted to be generating every year by 2050 if nothing is done to change course.
Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies
Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food production, distribution and sales industries—but an emerging generation of AI sensors is providing a raft of fresh solutions. The embrace of AI in food industries ...
How to encourage a child to try new, scary things (without traumatizing them in the process)
If your child has ever dug their heels in on the morning of the school athletics or cross country day, or refused to speak in front of the class, you're not alone.
Predictive model could help track deadly viruses back to their source
A new predictive model developed at Washington State University could help scientists more efficiently identify the reservoirs of emerging zoonotic viruses and dangerous pathogens like Ebola that can spill over from animals ...
Rising emissions, depleting water and vanishing land: AI is threatening natural resources for billions, say scientists
By 2030, the global data centers powering artificial intelligence are projected to consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity. This is nearly triple the combined annual electricity use of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria—countries ...
Belief that men 'evolved to be like this' could lead to more victim-blaming in rape cases
New research from the U.K. suggests that being exposed to old ideas that portray male sexual violence as having an evolutionary explanation—such as it being biological and inevitable—can lead people to be more likely to blame ...
Algal blooms explained: How scientists are helping spot them sooner
Algal blooms can seem to appear overnight. A stretch of ocean that looked clear days earlier can suddenly appear discolored and sometimes pose risks to ecosystems and human health. But scientists say blooms are rarely sudden—understanding ...
Astronomers uncover statistical evidence for recoiling supermassive black holes
Galactic collisions are events of breathtaking proportions. The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers plunge into a chaotic orbital dance that eventually coalesce into a single remnant. On their way to that point, ...
The perks of polyandry: Mating with multiple males leads to home improvement for African tree frogs
The question of why females mate with multiple males has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. A new study of African foam-nest tree frogs, led by University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers, reveals polyandry could be the ...
Beetle mating rituals key to Banksia populations
The nocturnal mating rituals of hairy scarab beetles are helping pollinate one of Perth's most common native trees, in a discovery that highlights the unusual adaptations of Australian plants and the unexpected pollination ...
Indonesia's air quality got worse after China banned plastic waste imports, research shows
When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, countries like the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan didn't stop exporting plastic waste—they diverted their shipments to countries in Southeast Asia.
Research project provides new estimates of greater amberjack abundance in U.S. South Atlantic, Gulf of America
A multi-year research project has provided new insight into greater amberjack. The Greater Amberjack Count was led by Sean P. Powers, Ph.D., fisheries ecology professor and Director of the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental ...
Storm Jangmi dumps torrential rain on Tokyo
A severe tropical storm brought torrential rain to Tokyo on Wednesday, swelling rivers, grounding flights, and sparking calls to evacuate for hundreds of thousands of people across wide swaths of Japan.
Before SpaceX goes public, a scramble to get on bandwagon
As SpaceX prepares its long-awaited stock market debut, investors everywhere are scrambling to get a piece of the action—through investment funds, related company stocks, and even online prediction markets.
Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts
A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific.
