General Physics
Spins influence solid oxygen's crystal structure under extreme magnetic fields, study finds
Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or behavior. Specifically, studies show that under magnetic fields above 100 tesla (T), spins (i.e., intrinsic ...
Nov 8, 2025
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Molecular & Computational biology
Bacteria use sugar-fueled currents and molecular gearboxes to move without flagella
New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella—the slender, whip-like propellers that usually drive them forward.
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Climate intervention may lower protein content in major global food crops
A new study in Environmental Research Letters reports that cooling the planet by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a proposed climate intervention technique, could reduce the nutritional value of the world's ...
Agriculture
Nov 8, 2025
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Rare footage shows sucker fish as they whale-surf in the ocean's wildest joyride
There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora's whale-surfing joyride.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2025
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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.
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Nov 8, 2025
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'Mind-captioning' technique can read human thoughts from brain scans
Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or thinking of, or matching ...
Green alternative for light-emitting materials in displays uses plant waste and amino acids
Scientists have devised a way to create a green alternative to the light-emitting materials often used in TV, smartphones and other display technologies.
Engineering
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Protein linked to cancer found to play key role in wound healing
When doctors detect elevated levels of SerpinB3 in a blood test, it can signal that something is seriously wrong, from hard-to-treat cancers to severe inflammatory conditions.
Oncology & Cancer
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Husbands' self-esteem linked to lower risk of preterm birth in partners
A husband's optimism and confidence may play a crucial, if often unseen, role in helping babies arrive healthy and on time.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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A study questions melatonin use and heart health but don't lose sleep over it
Don't lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That's the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related supplement. It raised questions about the safety ...
Cardiology
Nov 8, 2025
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The Future is Interdisciplinary
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Medical Xpress
Protein linked to cancer found to play key role in wound healing
Just 3,000 steps a day linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in older adults
Husbands' self-esteem linked to lower risk of preterm birth in partners
Quality improvement intervention may help prevent deaths from metformin-associated lactic acid
Kidney transplant waitlisting: A potentially better way to optimize the timing
Global study finds stable acute kidney injury mortality with shifting age patterns
Coronary artery calcium may be a predictor for all-cause mortality, including non-cardiac conditions
Pfizer poised to buy Metsera in $10 bn deal after bidding war
Flu season peak is still to come this year: Is it too late to get a flu shot?
Disagreement between two kidney function tests predicts serious health problems
Coordinated brain network activity during emotional arousal may explain vivid, lasting memories
Urolithin A nudges aging immune cells toward a youthful profile in 28 days
Chronic kidney disease is now the ninth leading cause of death, global analysis finds
Why Alzheimer's patients forget loved ones
Tech Xplore
A crisis at chipmaker Nexperia sent automakers scrambling. Here's what to know
New holography-inspired reconfigurable surface developed for wireless communication
AI tech can compress LLM chatbot conversation memory by 3–4 times
Amazon unveils latest move to keep customers from shopping elsewhere
OpenAI boss calls on governments to build AI infrastructure
Putting people first: Europe's 6G push for connectivity that serves society
Nanoparticles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs
A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 8, 2025
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Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals ...
Robotics
Nov 7, 2025
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Urolithin A nudges aging immune cells toward a youthful profile in 28 days
An international research team focused on aging reports that urolithin A at 1,000 mg per day shifted human immune profiles toward a more naive-like, less exhausted CD8+ state and increased fatty acid oxidation capacity, with ...
Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life
A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at Enceladus's north pole, ...
Astrobiology
Nov 7, 2025
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Ancient DNA uncovers unknown Argentina lineage that has persisted for last 8,500 years
An area called the central Southern Cone in South America, which consists of a large part of Argentina, is known to be one of the last global regions to become inhabited by humans.
Uncovering the genetic mechanism that causes barley crops to sprout early
Every year, billions of dollars' worth of crops worldwide perish due to pre-harvest sprouting (PHS), a phenomenon in which grain or seeds germinate on the plant before harvest. The process is triggered by a variety of factors, ...
Disagreement between two kidney function tests predicts serious health problems
A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and death, a new study shows.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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New holography-inspired reconfigurable surface developed for wireless communication
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are engineered structures comprised of several elements known as 'meta-atoms,' which can reshape and control electromagnetic waves in real-time. These surfaces could contribute to ...
Stone Age Pacific fishing practices revealed through chemical fingerprints hidden in collagen
A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master fishers. Archaeological ...
Coordinated brain network activity during emotional arousal may explain vivid, lasting memories
Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or traumatic experiences, more vividly than neutral events, such as a routine professional meeting. ...
Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had ...
Deep-sea mining risks disrupting the marine food web, study warns
Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web—and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates, according to a new ...
Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears
Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected late-night landfall on the east coast.
What if your Tamagotchi was alive and glowing? This toy prototype is full of bacteria
Children and bacteria—normally they're a parental nightmare, a cocktail of late-night pediatrician calls and ruined weekends.
How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5°C
Global emissions need to peak this year to stay within 1.5°C of global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels. This means that starting now, countries need to emit less greenhouse gases. Emissions also need to be cut ...
The 'anti-weather' of Venus
Conditions on Venus's surface have largely remained a mystery for decades. Carl Sagan famously pointed out that people were quick to jump to conclusions, such as that there are dinosaurs living there, from scant little evidence ...
Empowering street vendors in Indonesia through a sustainability-integrated financial literacy program
Earlier this year our Grantham Scholar, Eva Andriani, traveled to Indonesia to conduct some participatory research with a community of street vendors. We spoke to Eva to find out about her experience and the impact of her ...
Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: Here's what to expect at this year's COP30 global climate talks
Along with delegates from all over the world, I'll be heading to the United Nations COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. Like many others, I'm unsure what to expect.
We studied 217 tropical cyclones globally to see how people died. Our findings might surprise you
Tropical cyclones—also known as hurricanes, typhoons or storms, depending on their location and intensity—are among the world's most destructive and costly climate disasters.
'Almost every day': Japan battles spike in bear attacks
The sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the noise will keep bears away, while signs warn people to be on guard.
Turning undersea cables into a global monitoring system for seismic and environmental hazards
EU researchers are exploring how undersea communication cables can double-up as environmental and seismic sensors—a potential game-changer for early warning systems.
Immigrants share democratic basic values, international study finds
Migrants in Europe stand by the basic values of democracy, according to a new study conducted by a research team led by Professor Marc Helbling, sociologist at the University of Mannheim focusing on Migration and Integration ...
Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe
As countries meet at COP30 in the Amazon, a new Oxford University study gives the most detailed view yet of how different nations' laws and regulations are aligning—or not—to climate goals. The survey of climate policies ...
Researcher sees 'a lot of backsliding on climate commitments' since 2015 Paris conference
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. At that time, the countries of the world agreed that global warming should be kept well below 2°, and preferably not exceed 1.5°. At the climate conference in ...
Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and their symbiosis with algae ...
Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
In the dense forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of retired oil and gas wells—some dating back to the mid-1800s, long before modern construction standards—dot the landscape, according to geochemists ...
Earth 'can no longer sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said Earth cannot sustain humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and without confronting this reality the climate fight will be lost.
Experts outline cleaner, more resilient supply options for critical graphite mineral
Graphite, the primary anode material in lithium-ion batteries, has become central to energy storage technologies and a growing focus of supply chain concerns. Even as graphite demand is rising faster than lithium demand, ...
Why measuring land-use carbon emissions is so challenging—and how to fix it
A team led by LMU researchers shows why CO₂ fluxes from land use are so difficult to quantify—and how they can be estimated more accurately in the future.
Enhancing ocean wind observation accuracy: New rain correction approach for FY-3E WindRAD
Satellite scatterometers play a crucial role in monitoring ocean surface winds, with their accuracy directly impacting weather forecasting and climate research. However, rainfall has consistently challenged precise wind measurements, ...
