Plants & Animals
Mother bats' hearts beat faster at the sound of their own babies' cries
A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies among hundreds of other bats in the colony. Making sure she cares for and nurses only her own offspring is important to ensuring their survival. Among Japanese house ...
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Quantum Physics
Lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals his true view of quantum randomness
Unlike classical physics, quantum mechanics generally cannot tell us exactly what will happen in an individual event. Instead, it predicts the probabilities of different outcomes. As one of the theory's early pioneers, Erwin ...
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A parasite carried by one-third of humanity can't reproduce if one key protein is disabled
A protein discovered in a Virginia Tech–led study may open a gateway to treatments for a parasite responsible for a deadly disease in immunocompromised people. The team led by Raj Gaji, assistant professor of parasitology ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leicester ...
Earth Sciences
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Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments
A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes, revealing how social ...
Plants & Animals
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Stream restoration improves biodiversity but not necessarily ecosystem functioning
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation adopted in 2024 establishes the restoration of ecosystem functions as an objective of stream restoration. But can conventional measures that focus primarily on restoring the physical structure ...
Plants & Animals
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Paying for the past: Norway's finder's fees favor gold's weight over what it tells us
Ten years ago, in 2016, a metal detectorist came upon a hoard of gold. It had been buried in the dirt for around 1,800 years and consisted of around 396 grams (14 ounces) of gold rings. The detectorist handed in his finds ...
Something smells different as scientists send aromas over the internet
One day, you may be able to easily smell what you are looking at when browsing online. Sending smells over the internet has long been a dream, and while it may seem far-fetched, researchers have now taken a major step toward ...
Strand AI on a desert island, and it starts playing and inventing games
AI agents tend to do things when we give them specific commands, such as analyzing data and answering questions. But what would they do if left to their own devices?
Researchers thread the world's first touchscreen into a garment
Researchers at the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create ...
Consumer & Gadgets
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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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Tech Xplore
Strand AI on a desert island, and it starts playing and inventing games
Doubling hydrogen production through a synergy of materials
Researchers thread the world's first touchscreen into a garment
Tiny holes in silicon modulator create 'slow light' for more efficient data signal conversion
Researchers find a way to reduce AI chatbots' reinforcement of delusions
App's AI 'eyes' for blind users fall short, researchers find
Molecular locking strategy enables efficient and scalable organic solar cells
Nvidia boss criticizes 'cheap' AI doomsday warnings
Finland grants license for world's first nuclear waste repository
Drone system uses VR for warehouse inventory
As Apple's Duo phone is released, here are dos and don'ts for folding phones
Sapphire-grown semiconductor film sets bandgap record
Semiconductors with wider bandgaps could pave the way for smaller, more efficient electronics that can handle far higher voltages, but the wider this gap becomes, the harder it is to control how well a material conducts electricity. ...
More than 20 years of data challenge one-size-fits-all view of Arctic cloud-forming particles
As the climate gets warmer, the number of particles that make up clouds in the Arctic may increase or decrease, depending on the specific area. A new study indicates that the Arctic should be divided into three parts rather ...
Earth Sciences
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Petting your dog may help your body handle the next stressful situation better
Coming home to a four-legged furry friend wagging their tail can ease the stress accumulated throughout the day. Since time immemorial, humans have found comfort in petting their dogs. A large body of research acknowledges ...
Engineered porous material recovers valuable rare earth elements from industrial wastewater
The rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles, wind turbines, medical imaging machines and other advanced technologies may be hiding in an unlikely place: industrial wastewater.
Engineering
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Public health programs can 'rewire' social networks, study finds
An educational program intended to improve maternal and child health fundamentally altered the social fabric of the rural Honduran villages where it was implemented, a new Yale-led study finds. The findings, researchers say, ...
Social Sciences
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International study helps support FDA approval of HIV drug for newborns
An international study conducted through the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network, including researchers at the University of California San Diego, helped inform the U.S. Food ...
Medical Xpress
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Study reveals how melanoma outmaneuvers both drugs and immune defenses
Melanoma is one of the most difficult cancers to treat due to its resistance to targeted drug therapies. But a new study from the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center shows that the cancer is playing offense as well ...
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Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests
Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the 1960s, summer temperatures ...
Earth Sciences
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Clustering changes how charged polymers separate in water, challenging old assumptions
A polymer science revelation about how liquid mixtures separate could have major implications for human health, metabolism and disease, new research indicates. In a brief report published in the Proceedings of the National ...
Biochemistry
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How L-carnitine, found in red meat and exercise supplements, may amplify inflammation
In a study published Oct. 19 in Cell, Yale researchers identified a previously unknown mechanism by which a nutrient abundant in red meat and commonly used in exercise supplements may amplify inflammation.
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How we mark our ballot can affect how we feel about voting. Here's why
Have you ever left a polling place feeling that your mark on the ballot didn't quite say what you wanted it to? Perhaps you liked two candidates but had to drop one, or backed the one who might actually win over the one you ...
Beyond hearing: Sensing when conversation becomes difficult
About six years ago, hearing researcher Dr. Kelly Miles had a stroke just a week after having a baby.
How Zimbabwe's government turned international condemnation into political ammunition
International pressure intended to encourage democratic reform can sometimes strengthen the very governments it seeks to hold to account, according to new research from The University of Manchester.
New test measures potentially harmful metals in cellulose food packaging
A technique for detecting potentially harmful metals in regenerated cellulose food packaging is discussed in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The new tool can be used for safety assessments of materials ...
Autonomous triangular modules could build tomorrow's mega-observatories
Private companies are getting better at launching more mass into space with larger rockets. But there is still a major constraint on the size of objects we can get into orbit—fairing size. This places physical constraints ...
Researchers develop AI tool to map microRNA binding sites on circular RNAs
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are loop-shaped molecules that can influence gene regulation through interactions with microRNAs (miRNAs). This matters because circRNAs can exist as different full-length isoforms, and their back-splice ...
Acupuncture and mutual exchange in Chinese and Soviet science
Previous accounts of the scientific relationship between communist China and the Soviet Union have depicted it as one of subordination, with the Russians exporting knowledge to the Chinese or scavenging from their bodies ...
Material substitution can increase the potential environmental impact of packaging systems
New research suggests that replacing polyethylene (PE) packaging with paper, glass, aluminum or steel often does not reduce environmental impacts across a product's life cycle.
What is a neutrino anyway? A look at the science behind this year's Nobel Prize in Physics
If you wanted a Nobel Prize, you would do well to study neutrinos. To date, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded five times to research related to neutrino detection and discovery. This year, Francis Halzen earned ...
Revamped playground design could protect children around the world from dangers of the sun
A new design methodology for school playgrounds is demonstrating how children can still enjoy their playtime while being protected from the harmful effects of the sun.
Researcher tackles impact of a CMO's life events on businesses' bottom line
When a major company's CEO goes through a messy divorce or is arrested for drunk driving, investors often get nervous, worried that the executive's personal struggles will dent their returns. But most people hardly notice ...
Brazil's presidential elections linked to decades of fluctuating environmental destruction—study
A University of Cambridge–led analysis of maps made from satellite imagery covering over three decades and seven presidents shows how the winner of Brazil's national elections since 1990 directly affected the preservation ...
How farming helped cause two medieval tsunamis in an Italian lake—and why the danger has returned
On Jan. 3, 1117, a strong earthquake shook northern Italy. A manuscript of the 12th century, kept today in the Vatican Library, recorded what came next: "The lakes also rose so much that very few of those living in the villages ...
Most AI chatbots stay in the political middle ground, with Grok being an exception
The 2026 election was the first parliamentary election in Sweden since AI chatbots became a serious part of everyday life—not least for young people and first-time voters. Today, it is possible to turn to a number of services, ...
Canine cancer patients contribute to next-generation minimally invasive cancer therapies for dogs and humans
Natural disasters. Hikes. Long, dark nights alone. For many people, dogs offer a sense of safety and comfort in challenging or uncertain times. Cancer researchers at a new lab at Purdue University are partnering with dogs ...
Disiplinang walang palo: Challenging common Filipino parenting misbeliefs
More frequent spanking is linked to greater anxiety and aggression in children over time, according to international research that includes Filipino families presented by psychology professor Dr. Liane Peña Alampay of the ...
Study: Pandemic arrest patterns may have deepened existing inequalities in policing
The COVID-19 pandemic was a public health crisis that affected more than the public's health. It brought complex changes across many aspects of society, including having an influence on suburban arrest patterns, according ...
A house ages alongside its occupants, according to researcher
Flemish people are very attached to their homes and generally wish to stay there for as long as possible. However, many homes were not designed to be lived in for a lifetime. Architect and researcher Sander Lambrix has analyzed ...
Study highlights need for policymakers to look at digital policies as part of energy, climate planning
A new study underscores the extent to which digital policies cannot be separated from energy policies. The research evaluates the relationship between information communication technologies and carbon dioxide emissions and ...
Chiricahua is the nation's newest national park—what does that mean?
With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump has officially created the United States' 64th national park.
