Bio & Medicine
Peppermint oil plasma coating could cut catheter infections without releasing drugs
Australian researchers have developed a high‑performance coating made from peppermint essential oil that can be applied to the surfaces of many commonly used medical devices, offering a safer way to protect patients from ...
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Plants & Animals
YouTubers love wildlife, but commenters aren't calling for conservation action
YouTube is a great place to find all sorts of wildlife content. It is not, however, a good place to find viewers encouraging each other to preserve that wildlife, according to new research led by the University of Michigan. ...
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Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key feature of virtual particles ...
General Physics
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Why snakes can go months between meals: A genetic explanation
Snakes may well be one of nature's greatest predators, capable of eating whole deer or even crocodiles, but just as impressive is that they can go months, or even a whole year, without a single meal. And now an international ...
Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons
You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a material's radiating heat. ...
Optics & Photonics
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Astronomers trace a runaway star to a former companion's supernova
Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent supernova explosions. ...
Addiction and appetite along the gut-brain axis: Vagus nerve may play a crucial role in the dopamine reward pathway
Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a fleeting satisfaction ...
Immune cells linked to Epstein-Barr virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis
Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million Americans. The work found ...
Medical Xpress
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AI tool predicts brain age, cancer survival and other disease signals from unlabeled brain MRIs
Mass General Brigham investigators have developed a robust new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model that is capable of analyzing brain MRI datasets to perform numerous medical tasks, including identifying brain age, ...
Medical Xpress
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Family dinners may reduce substance-use risk for many adolescents
A new study by researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine finds that regular family dinners may help prevent substance use for a majority of U.S. adolescents, but suggests that the strategy is not effective for youth ...
Medical Xpress
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Immune cells linked to Epstein-Barr virus may play a role in multiple sclerosis
Mental health and heart attacks: What a 22-million-person review suggests
Rates of autism in girls and boys may be more equal than previously thought
Cap-like OLED wearable could prevent hair loss, replacing bulky helmet devices
High-dose antioxidants linked to offspring birth defects
Neuroticism may be linked with more frequent sexual fantasies
DNA marker in malaria mosquitoes may be pivotal in tackling insecticide resistance
Testing menstrual blood for HPV could be 'robust alternative' to cervical screening
Hair oxytocin levels may reflect parent–child emotional bond
Tech Xplore
Extending optical fiber's ultralow loss performance to photonic chips
Fungi turn shredded mattress foam into lightweight building insulation
Why reinforcement learning breaks at scale, and how a new method fixes it
Texas Instruments to buy chip designer Silicon Labs in $7.5 bn deal
Q&A: Changing our society through AI smart air conditioning technology
Neptunium study yields plutonium insights for space exploration
MoSi₂ shows transverse thermoelectric effect, converting waste heat to electricity
Does AI understand word impressions like humans do?
OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social media
Oxygen-modified graphene filters boost natural gas purification
AI is coming to Olympic judging: What makes it a game changer?
Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
Poop as medicine? A Roman vial's chemistry backs up ancient medical texts
When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny the Elder, there was no ...
Mental health and heart attacks: What a 22-million-person review suggests
The Department of Medicine at University of Calgary led an analysis comparing several clinical mental disorders with risk of acute coronary syndrome, a term that includes heart attack and emergency chest pain resulting from ...
'Red Potato' galaxy discovered by astronomers
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive and quiescent red galaxy, which they dubbed "Red Potato." The discovery was reported in a research paper published ...
Are returning Pumas putting Patagonian Penguins at risk? New study reveals the likelihood
Should we protect an emblematic species if it may come at the cost of another one—particularly in ecosystems that are still recovering from human impacts? This is the conservation dilemma facing Monte Leon National Park, ...
Plants & Animals
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One-third of dementia cases are linked to non brain-related diseases, study finds
Dementia is a term used to describe memory loss, impaired reasoning, difficulties communicating and other mental impairments that can be caused by Alzheimer's disease, other neurodegenerative disease, strokes, severe infections, ...
When continents try, and fail, to break apart
Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and runs smack in the middle of the United States at the Great Lakes. The rift failed to completely rupture, ...
Earth Sciences
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Rates of autism in girls and boys may be more equal than previously thought
Autism has long been viewed as a condition that predominantly affects male individuals, but a study from Sweden published by The BMJ shows that autism may actually occur at comparable rates among male and female individuals. ...
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Electron-phonon 'surfing' could help stabilize quantum hardware, nanowire tests suggest
That low-frequency fuzz that can bedevil cellphone calls has to do with how electrons move through and interact in materials at the smallest scale. The electronic flicker noise is often caused by interruptions in the flow ...
Condensed Matter
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Beyond climate: Connection and mobility were key drivers in early human innovation, research suggests
A new study challenges the idea that climate change drove early human innovation. Instead, researchers find that cultural developments arose under different environmental conditions, shaped by movement, interaction, and knowledge ...
Archaeology
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Self-regulating living implant could end daily insulin injections
A pioneering study marks a major step toward eliminating the need for daily insulin injections for people with diabetes. The study was led by Assistant Professor Shady Farah of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion—Israel ...
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AI to track icebergs adrift at sea in boon for science
British scientists said Thursday that a world-first AI tool to catalog and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change.
New crew set to launch for ISS after medical evacuation
Four astronauts could blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) next week, after setbacks including a mysterious medical evacuation of the previous crew, last-minute rocket problems, and some scheduling conflicts ...
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation
When the International Space Station comes back to Earth in 2030, it will mark the end of three decades of peaceful international cooperation—and an era when space became central to our daily lives.
AI foundation model aims to make stem cell therapies more predictable
One of the most enduring goals in regenerative medicine is deceptively simple: replace a person's damaged or dying cells with healthy new ones grown in the laboratory.
Gray wolf crosses into Nevada after breaking from California pack
A spotted gray wolf has left his California pack and trotted across Silver State lines, wildlife biologists say.
Little blue penguin chick reared by its parents at aquarium
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is celebrating another milestone in their little blue penguin breeding program. For the first time, a penguin chick has been raised and reared by its penguin ...
Catalina Island's deer to be culled to restore its ecosystem
California wildlife officials have approved a plan to eradicate Catalina Island's entire deer population as part of a broader effort to restore the island ecosystem, sparking fierce opposition from an unusual coalition of ...
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new ...
Red giant stars can't destroy all gas giants—some are hardy survivors
Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes through dramatic changes. And those changes don't just dictate the star's fate; they can also dictate ...
New AI model enables native speakers and foreign learners to read undiacritized Arabic texts with greater fluency
Reading an Arabic newspaper, a book, or academic prose fluently, whether digital or in print, remains challenging for many native speakers, let alone learners of Arabic as a foreign language.
Mindful choice or locked in? Study probes feelings about written consent
People who sign consent forms feel more trapped—not more empowered—than those who give consent verbally, according to new research by Vanessa Bohns, the Braunstein Family Professor in the ILR School, and co-author Roseanna ...
Workplace gamification erodes employee moral agency, finds study
What is lost when a worker completes actions—such as helping a client or ensuring safety—in exchange for incentives like digital badges, placement on a leaderboard, or in-office rankings? A study by Carnegie Mellon University ...
Lack of information hinders regulation of 'green' nanopesticides
New formulations of nanopesticides with natural ingredients have appeared in specialized literature using terms such as "green pesticide," "ecological," "based on natural elements," and "with natural nanoparticles," among ...
Dual-atom platinum–ruthenium catalyst achieves efficient low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation
A research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an efficient, stable, atomic-scale catalyst for carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation. This advancement offers promising ...
How high temperatures disrupt anthocyanin metabolism in red kiwifruit
Red-fleshed kiwifruit, valued for its high anthocyanin content and associated health benefits, is increasingly threatened by rising temperatures. Global warming severely inhibits anthocyanin accumulation, leading to flesh ...
Where are Europe's oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent
For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in longevity have been noted in the 20th century, correlating with the slump in infectious illnesses and ...
Hudson Valley initiative puts food sovereignty into practice
A study by researchers from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute gauges how an initiative in New York's Hudson Valley is helping farmers and community organizations build more equitable regional food systems and advance food ...
Schools are increasingly telling students they must put their phones away. Ohio's example shows mixed results
Cellphones are everywhere—including, until recently, in schools.
Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits
Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for space exploration, scientific advancement and national security. But figuring out where exactly ...
Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm
The world is looking for more clean water. Intense storms and warmer weather have worsened droughts and reduced the amount of clean water underground and in rivers and lakes on the surface.
