Astronomy
Panorama of Andromeda galaxy unveils hundreds of millions of stars
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky ...
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Analytical Chemistry
Heavy dipnictogen chemistry: Researchers create heterocycles with more than one antimony atom
An international team of chemists has successfully created methylenedistibiranes, which are three-membered rings that have two antimony atoms and one carbon atom. In their paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
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New chainmail-like material could be the future of armor
In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material.
Nanomaterials
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Is the moon a chunk ejected from Earth? Study sheds light on moon formation, origin of water on Earth
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory ...
Planetary Sciences
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Artificial imagination with the 'exocortex:' Researcher proposes software to aid scientific inspiration and imagination
Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy spacecraft to neighboring galaxies with a casual command. Humanoid AIs even served as companions to otherwise ...
Software
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Study reveals immune system changes linked to schizophrenia and treatment resistance
Researchers from Singapore's National Healthcare Group (NHG)'s Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have made strides in understanding the connection between the immune ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Sky-high prices? Estimating the cost of climate-neutral aviation in the future
Aviation currently contributes to about 4% of the global warming that has been observed. As demand for flights is likely to continue to increase, researchers and governments are looking for solutions to make aviation climate-neutral ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Multi-target approach counters tumor growth in several cancers
The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away. The tumor's cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking the body's immune defenses and creating a sort of haven in which the tumor can ...
Oncology & Cancer
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Change in induction procedures linked to sharp drop in infant mortality after 41 weeks of pregnancy
The proportion of babies dying before and during labor after 41 weeks of gestation has fallen by 47% in Sweden in a relatively short time. This is the result of a major national study. The reduction has occurred since the ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Skin-inspired optical sensor reads Braille at the speed of touch
Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible optical skin that can be used to read Braille. The advance could not only improve access to information for people who are blind but also help move us closer to a future ...
Engineering
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Medical Xpress
Study reveals immune system changes linked to schizophrenia and treatment resistance
Multi-target approach counters tumor growth in several cancers
Change in induction procedures linked to sharp drop in infant mortality after 41 weeks of pregnancy
Q&A: Psychiatric epidemiologist discusses mental health toll from displacement and loss in L.A.
Children born to young men with cancer have increases in preterm birth, low-birthweight children, but not birth defects
The long-term health effects of LA County wildfire smoke
Review highlights current understanding of Nipah virus features
Children with post-COVID syndrome show promising recovery in multicenter analysis
Study shows teletherapy has not improved access to mental health care for those who cannot pay
Patients who have had multiple COVID infections appear prone to contracting long COVID
Improving teen mental health could save US $52 billion over 10 years
Children learn even when they're not paying attention, psychologists find
Half of adult ticks in the Northeast carry Lyme disease bacteria, study reveals
Tech Xplore
Sky-high prices? Estimating the cost of climate-neutral aviation in the future
How the UK's plans for AI could derail net zero: The numbers explained
AI-based technology could reduce the number of controversial decisions in boxing
New guide offers framework to measure AI's energy consumption
As EV sales surge, the UK car industry might be reaching a turning point
Report evaluates increase in electricity demand from data centers
Apple loses top spot in China smartphone sales to local rivals
Taiwan takes a further step in production of AI chips with advanced new plant
Nintendo hopes to reprise blockbuster Switch with 2025 successor
Study examines how climate change has shaped coastal forests over the last decade
A new study finds that climate change may have a range of contrasting effects on coastal forests, both slowing and enabling growth in areas where sea levels are rising and storms are more common.
Earth Sciences
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Geoengineering strategies against climate change could positively impact agriculture
On the basis of current carbon emissions rates and climate policies, average global temperatures are projected to increase to 2.9°C above preindustrial averages by the end of the century. Such an increase would severely ...
Earth Sciences
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Double the disks, double the discovery: New insights into planet formation in DF Tau
Tucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constellation, a pair of circling stars are displaying some unexpected differences in the circumstellar disks of dust and gas that surround them. A new study led by researchers ...
Planetary Sciences
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Water gives cells a push in blood vessel formation
Water flow plays a surprising role in the formation of new blood vessels as zebrafish develop, RIKEN researchers have discovered. This finding advances our understanding of how blood vessels sprout new branches through cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Discovery could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and protein-based drugs
A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by researchers at Penn State, could eliminate the need for refrigeration for hundreds of life-saving medicines ...
Vaccination
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Art analysis: 2D multifractal tools examine Jackson Pollock's expressionism
The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on multifractals have managed ...
Mathematics
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Decoding HIV's tactics: RNA structures provide new insights into how virus hijacks cells
A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, skillfully hijacks ...
Genetics
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New process creates ordered semiconductor material at room temperature
Scientists at the University of Twente have developed a way to create highly ordered semiconductor material at room temperature. This UT research was published today in Nature Synthesis. This breakthrough could make optoelectronics ...
Nanophysics
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Tagging gene-regulating DNA sequences with barcodes provides insights into human genome
An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled across the human genome. The research is published in the journal Nature.
Genetics
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Scientists uncover new human-caused shifts in global water cycle
In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by activities such as agriculture ...
Earth Sciences
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Amid rising geopolitical tensions, researchers call for 'safe zones' for scientific collaboration
A new article emphasizes the need for "safe zones" for researchers amid escalating geopolitical tensions. It uses the history of IIASA—established as a neutral ground during the Cold War—as a prime example.
An even ghostlier neutrino may rule the universe
Strange "right-handed" neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.
Disinformation in 2024 was rife, and it's likely to bring more risks in 2025
Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025.
Touschek and Gatto: Exploring a friendship that would shape fundamental physics
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made its groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, but its ancestry can be traced back more than 60 years to the first electron-positron collision experiment in Italy. Named Anello ...
Identifying hazelnut origin to combat food fraud
A team from the University of Barcelona is leading a study that improves the technology available to identify the geographical origin and variety of hazelnuts, and thus avoid commercial fraud and food safety problems linked ...
Population genomic analysis uncovers complex breeding history of celery
Celery, a key vegetable in the Apiaceae family, is widely valued for its nutrition and medicinal uses. It is commonly categorized into three varieties: A. graveolens var. dulce (common celery) with thick and solid petioles; ...
Magnolias and other threatened trees feeling the heat in Honduras
A new study has revealed the dramatic impact that rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns due to climate change could have on threatened tree species in Pico Bonito, the largest national park in Honduras.
Gene-edited soil bacteria could provide third source of nitrogen for corn production
If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day level the playing field. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows that ...
Where is Tahlequah? What we know about the mother orca and her calf
This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles.
Schools need to boost entry-level salaries to better compete for novice teachers, study says
Despite concerns about teacher shortages in certain school districts and subject areas, a recent study found that schools are not adjusting their salary scales strategically so they can better attract novice teachers.
Musk's Starship set for launch after Bezos orbital triumph
The rivalry between the world's two richest men is going cosmic.
American studies degrees are declining in popularity, but the subject has never been more important
We're witnessing a momentous period in US history and culture. A second Donald Trump presidency promises to be just as turbulent, if not more so, than his first term in office.
How interactive 'climate fresk' workshops are trying to accelerate environmental awareness around the globe
Six people huddle around a table, their brows furrowed in concentration as they piece together the puzzle of the changing climate. The task before them is deceptively simple yet profoundly complex: tracing the cascading impacts ...
Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity
One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality is sharply on the rise.
Climate science seeks solutions for agriculture in warming world
By the time the world's leading climate scientists publish their next report in 2028–29, the world will already have possibly breached 1.5°C warmer than the pre-industrial era for a few years and the deadline for the UN's ...
Canada's water governance and management systems threaten the country's water supply
Canadians are among some of the most water-rich people globally, with access to about 20% of the world's freshwater supply and 7% of the world's renewable freshwater supply.
Developing an autonomous AI assistant to build nanostructures
The chemical composition of a material alone sometimes reveals little about its properties. The decisive factor is often the arrangement of the molecules in the atomic lattice structure or on the surface of the material. ...
Why citizen scientists are key in the fight against invasive species
Creating a biosecurity crisis is shockingly simple. In the 1850s, Jane Paterson, a settler near Albury planted seeds of a European plant with an attractive purple flower in her garden. She had no way of knowing that plant ...
Drum mills achieve kilogram-scale ibuprofen synthesis with green technique
For the first time, researchers used drum mills to make kilograms of ibuprofen-nicotinamide, a formulation that improves therapeutic efficacy and stability. This is part of European project IMPACTIVE, focused on studying ...
Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts
The global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 unless immediate policy action on risks posed by the climate crisis is taken, warns a new report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and University ...
