Plants & Animals
Key protein SYFO2 enables 'self-fertilization' of leguminous plants
Most plants allow fungal microorganisms to enter their root cells and provide them with carbohydrates in exchange for a better supply of nutrients and water. Only leguminous plants like peas, beans, and clover enter into ...
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Evolution
Scientists trace crop viruses back to the last Ice Age
Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild plants in Eurasia. According to a new international study published in Plant Disease, the ancestors ...
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Microbes hitchhiking on marine snow could limit how deep carbon sinks
In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers to the deepest parts ...
Earth Sciences
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Baltic herring fishing rules may need an update after new genetic mapping
Herring from different parts of the Baltic Sea belong to distinct populations genetically adapted to local differences in salinity and temperature. However, these populations can also mix with each other, according to a new ...
Ecology
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How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system
Changes in the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current in the Atlantic, could serve as an early warning of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a massive system of ocean ...
Ocean carbon removal looks promising, but nutrient cycling could curb long-term gains
There is growing interest in the scientific community and private sector in biological approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal—strategies designed to enhance the ocean's natural ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. ...
Earth Sciences
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Circadian rhythm drives metabolic dysfunction in fat cells, study finds
Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolism, have discovered how disruptions in ...
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Can tomorrow's grid handle extremes? New simulations test renewables far faster
As power grids add more renewable energy and large-scale battery storage, utilities face a growing challenge: how to stress-test tomorrow's electricity systems before investing billions to build them. Wind, solar and battery-backed ...
Engineering
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Deep-frozen brain region restarts electrical activity after thawing
Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen have succeeded in preserving brain tissue through extreme deep freezing. After thawing, the neurons begin exchanging electrical ...
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Cancer drug reduces early Alzheimer's-like brain hyperconnectivity in lab tests
Neuroscientists at King's College London have pinpointed a mechanism behind the increased neural connectivity observed in the very early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Published in Translational Psychiatry, the study also ...
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Tech Xplore
Improving AI models' ability to explain their predictions
Deep AI training gets more stable by predicting its own errors
Smart pillow lets users stream podcasts and music with hugs and presses
AI text-to-speech gives Manx a digital voice as speakers fall to 2,200
Apple launches $599 MacBook Neo, threatening Windows PC market
Hybrid 'super foam' uses 3D-printed struts to absorb up to 10 times more energy
'AI will be the end of us': Is Colm Tóibín right about the threat to creative writing?
Your clothes may become smarter than you
Liquid-metal pupil helps an artificial eye adapt to sudden light changes
Sibling study finds birth order neurodevelopmental differences appear within the first year of life
Birth order has long been linked to differences in cognition, with firstborn children often outperforming their later-born siblings. Parental engagement and interaction have been suggested as potential influences on this ...
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Antarctic sea ice rebounds in 2026, nearing average after four years
Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.
Environment
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Why coordination improves after brain circuits mature: Astrocytes may be the missing link
A new study reveals that astrocytes—star-shaped support cells traditionally viewed as passive partners of neurons—play a previously underappreciated role in the maturation of coordinated movement.
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From carp to crocodilians: Why deliberately introduced freshwater giants may bring hidden risks
More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and hippopotamuses, have been deliberately introduced outside their natural range, often for economic ...
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Alternative breast cancer treatment tied to about four times higher mortality, nationwide analysis finds
The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social media. This growing trend has become an increasing concern for oncology practitioners and patients, ...
What makes a hit? On TikTok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide
TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform's Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its top charts. On both platforms, ...
Internet
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Why lungs age unevenly: Vulnerable cells may guide new therapies
Aging is associated with increased risk for nearly every lung disease, including acute conditions like pneumonia and chronic diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and lung cancer. ...
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Pathogenic virus infects and structurally reorganizes human cells, finds new study
Orthohantaviruses, such as the Puumala virus, are widespread in Europe, causing flu-like illnesses and severe kidney damage in those infected. It is increasingly considered a zoonotic threat. Researchers from the Medical ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation, study finds
A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a phylogenetic, genome-wide analysis ...
Evolution
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2D topological Kondo insulator observed in a moiré superlattice
When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated with the intrinsic angular momentum of localized electrons, this can give rise to the so-called ...
Terraforming Mars isn't a climate problem—it's an industrial nightmare
Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an entire planet is not something to do easily. Over the following decades, plenty of scientists and engineers ...
Students with lower self-control tend to procrastinate with short-form video, study finds
Who among us hasn't put off doing something we know we need to do while scrolling through just a few more TikToks, Instagram reels or YouTube shorts? New research from the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications ...
Experts challenge idea that social media harms teen empathy
Teenagers who use social media more frequently may show slightly higher empathy, according to a new meta-analysis by researchers at Georgia State University. The study, a systematic review published in the Journal of Adolescence, ...
Lactose-free milk presents an opportunity to boost dairy consumption and coffee shop visits with coffee drinkers
For many coffee drinkers, choosing milk for their coffee shop order often involves navigating a growing list of choices, each carrying different expectations around taste, digestibility, cost, and more. A new study in the ...
Many wild bee species find home on a university campus
170 species of wild bees live on the Hubland Campus of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU). This is the result of a study carried out by the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the JMU Biocentre from ...
Why nanotechnology breakthroughs often stagnate before reaching the market
New research suggests that the most formidable barrier to commercializing nanotechnology is not the science itself, but rather the way organizations manage the innovation process. While nanotechnology is heralded as one of ...
Silicone wristbands can help scientists track people's exposure to pollutants like 'forever chemicals'
Every morning, people fasten their watch, slip on a bracelet and head out the door without thinking much about what they might encounter along the way. The air they breathe, the dust on their hands and the surfaces they touch ...
Most Saharan dust is generated by 'hidden thunderstorms' high above the desert
When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while allowing reds and oranges ...
Herpetologists analyze population decline in regional turtle populations
Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new research published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
Which climate policies actually make a difference? Our new analysis has the answer
Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate measures has quadrupled since 2000, with some datasets showing a fifteen-fold increase.
Study finds unexpected link between public health, tax policies
A new study finds that the more a state's budget relied on sales tax revenue, the more likely it was to shorten stay-at-home orders during the early stages of the COVID pandemic. The findings suggest that state public-health ...
Online meetings come with pros and cons—managers should understand all of them
Video meetings have become a staple in the workplace. A recent study among senior IT industry managers shows that video meetings have a dual impact on remote leadership. Although Teams, Zoom and other tools for video meetings ...
Cattle grazing boosts nature recovery in Yorkshire Dales
Cattle grazing at a nature reserve in the Yorkshire Dales has increased plant diversity by more than 40%, according to research by the University of Leeds. Allowing native cattle breeds to roam large areas of the landscape ...
Cornwall ocean study highlights value of low-cost eDNA tests
Environmental DNA (eDNA) tests can identify genetic material left by organisms in the environment, such as cells and excrement, but surveys of ocean wildlife can be difficult and expensive, and standard eDNA tests are also ...
When silence isn't an option: Designing green spaces that still relax
Local recreation areas play an important role in reducing stress. In two new publications, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL show how visual impressions and sounds interact ...
New fossil reveals the weird 'tooth cushions' of an apex predator from 425 million years ago
Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth.
Study finds biodiversity credits could boost rewilding, but fall far short
Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of the emerging market ...
Why the Doomsday Clock has outlived its usefulness
The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight. And that was before all-out ...
Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, studies warn. Here's what can be done
Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.
Contraceptive vaccine reduces fertility in animals to address wildlife overpopulation
A Purdue University contraceptive vaccine seeks to address animal overpopulation by markedly reducing fertility in feral horses, deer, swine and other animals. Dr. Harm HogenEsch, distinguished professor of immunopathology ...
