Condensed Matter
Using phononic bandgap materials to suppress decoherence in quantum computers
Quantum computers have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some optimization and computational tasks. Compared to classical systems, however, quantum systems are more prone to errors, as they are more sensitive ...
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Mathematics
Scientists map the mathematics behind how we create and innovate
A new study in Nature Communications explores the dynamics of higher-order novelties, identifying fascinating patterns in how we combine existing elements to create novelty, potentially reshaping our understanding of human ...
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Droplet microfluidics advance may hold key to next-generation cancer drugs
At Texas A&M University, one research lab is changing the game of droplet microfluidics, a technique that involves conducting experiments in nanoscale droplets of liquid in a controlled environment. The team has developed ...
Bio & Medicine
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Scientists create new register with thousands of entangled nuclei to scale quantum networks
In an advance for quantum technologies, researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, have created a functional quantum register using the atoms inside a semiconductor quantum dot.
Quantum Physics
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Temperature-sensitive protein module can guide cell activity remotely
Imagine being at a big marquee event in an arena, like the Super Bowl, with the roar of the crowd, the smell of hot dogs, and a sea of jerseys all merging into one chaotic blur. While the frenzied, exciting environment certainly ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Superionic compound with liquid-like dynamics shows promise as solid-state battery electrolyte
Superionic materials are a class of materials that simultaneously present properties that are characteristic of solids and liquids. Essentially, a set of ions in these materials exhibits liquid-like mobility, even if the ...
Can a heart failure drug effectively treat a lethal form of ovarian cancer? Scientists hope the answer is 'yes'
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic malignancy globally and is increasing in incidence and mortality with currently more than 300,000 new cases and 200,000 deaths annually, according to data from the World Health ...
AI-based pregnancy analysis discovers previously unknown warning signs for stillbirth and newborn complications
A new AI-based analysis of almost 10,000 pregnancies has discovered previously unidentified combinations of risk factors linked to serious negative pregnancy outcomes, including stillbirth.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Large-scale data analysis links rare diseases to higher COVID-19 mortality risk
An England-wide study of over 58 million people has identified eight rare diseases that carry significantly increased risks for COVID-19-related mortality in fully vaccinated individuals. This important research calls for ...
Medical research
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A weekly injection could replace painful daily treatment for rare genetic condition
Rutgers Health researchers have found that a weekly injection of diabetes medication could replace painful daily hormone shots for people with a rare genetic form of lipodystrophy that leaves patients with almost zero fat ...
Medications
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Medical Xpress
Fresh embryo transfer may be better for women with low chance of IVF success
Childhood trauma strongly linked to mental health problems in Brazilian adolescents
Analysis identifies beneficial prenatal vitamins to reduce risk of infant death
How group size affects cooperation: Insights from brain science
Launch of 988 crisis hotline sees limited growth in most mental health crisis services
Advanced brain circuit-mapping technique reveals new anxiety drug target
Changing cholesterol over time tied to risk of dementia
Relative of deadly Hendra virus discovered in the US
Integrating palliative and dementia care can cut emergency visits and hospitalizations in half
Tech Xplore
Chemical looping turns environmental waste into fuel
Using network science, study shows music has become less complex
A sharp look into Ockham's razor: Is it losing its edge in light of AI?
Alibaba launches advanced AI model to rival GPT-4
Student creates online hub for wildfire relief with interactive map
Upstart DeepSeek faces heightened scrutiny as AI wows
Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make new AI chatbot? Trump adviser thinks so
With China's DeepSeek, US tech fears red threat
After inversion by CRISPR/Cas, the epigenetic state of plant chromosomes remains stable
The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK Leibniz Institute (IPK) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has investigated how the chromosomal ...
Plants & Animals
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Unified model scales pressure fluctuation in an accelerated liquid
A research team from Japan has developed a unified model to scale the transitional pressure development in a one-dimensional flow. This achievement provides a better understanding of how pressure fields build up in the confined ...
General Physics
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Bat behaviors tied to differences in vocalizations suggest personality traits
A team of animal behaviorists at the Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science's, Museum für Naturkunde, and Wageningen University and Research has found an association between different types of vocalizations ...
Synthetic neurons that mimic human processes could lead to smarter robotics
Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory neurons, which communicate ...
Robotics
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Uber, Lyft or transit? The answer appears to align with how people value their time
Research led by the University of Michigan has arrived at a surprisingly unsurprising result while assessing the sustainability gap between public transit and services like Uber and Lyft, formally known as transport network ...
Business
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Creating nanoislands enhances platinum catalyst efficiency
Noble metals such as platinum can make useful catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions, particularly hydrogenation (adding hydrogen atoms to a molecule). A research team led by Professor Bruce Gates at the UC Davis Department ...
Nanomaterials
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Optical levitation traps nanospheres, revealing quantum-classical crossover
An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary between classical and quantum physics, allowing the simultaneous observation and investigation of ...
Optics & Photonics
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Materials can remember a sequence of events in an unexpected way
Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered how, under specific conditions, ...
Condensed Matter
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Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland
Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a fungus found on a ...
Ecology
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Smart carbon dioxide removal yields economic and environmental benefits
Last year, Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfires, droughts, floods, and other climate impacts are expected to escalate in frequency, intensity, and lethality. ...
Environment
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Future of UK peatlands under threat due to climate change
The UK's peatlands face an uncertain future amid the escalating impacts of climate change. Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite ...
Antarctic biodiversity database has ice-free areas covered
Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, after 16 years of research.
Racial disparities persist in US juvenile drug offense cases
Research on race/ethnicity and juvenile court processing in the United States has found that youth of color often have outcomes that are more disadvantaged than those of their White counterparts, and that community context ...
Updated database details pollution risks for students nationwide
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the updated Air Toxics at School database, a web-based platform that tracks toxic air pollution affecting ...
Report highlights photosynthetic microorganisms in sustainable bioplastic production
The European project PROMICON issued five policy recommendations to support a new method for the production of sustainable bioplastics from microorganisms.
AI-driven multi-modal framework improves protein editing for science and medicine
Researchers from Zhejiang University and HKUST (Guangzhou) have developed a cutting-edge AI model, ProtET, that leverages multi-modal learning to enable controllable protein editing through text-based instructions. This innovative ...
Stronger community connections could foster better wildfire readiness in Eastern Coachella Valley
A study led by the University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health highlights the need for improved wildfire preparedness tailored to disadvantaged communities in unincorporated areas of the ...
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets?
Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets are this extreme. Some are ...
Global biodiversity goals: Researchers call for systematic conservation planning
Activists around the world are striving to stop the loss of biodiversity and restore ecosystems, as agreed by the international community in the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of Kunming and Montreal.
NewsGuard: Study finds no bias against conservative news outlets
A recent study evaluating the NewsGuard database, a leading media reliability rating service, has found no evidence supporting the allegation that NewsGuard is biased against conservative news outlets. Actually, the results ...
Avoiding the next collapse: Study unveils the factors behind cryptocurrency exchange failures
Imagine logging into your cryptocurrency exchange platform one morning only to find the website down, your funds gone, and no one to answer your questions. This nightmare has been a harsh reality for thousands of traders, ...
Tracing metals from Earth to water to life in China's Yellow River
The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent by massive amounts of suspended sediments along its 5,400-kilometer length. Its waters, sediments, ...
How to fly NASA's Orion spacecraft
On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the moon ...
How organizations should address challenges in work-from-home shift
A lot has been said about the tragic and ongoing outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. There has also been much discussion about the economic impact and how the pandemic led to a dramatic shift in work culture for many people. ...
The global plant trade is spreading invasive species to Europe
Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, England. It certainly wasn't any species found in Europe: Silviu thought he had been pranked.
AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
Artificial intelligence technologies, like chatbots, are attracting growing scrutiny for their voracious energy demands. However, energy consumption is only one part of their broader environmental impact.
Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
For years, Augusti Ntivuguruzwa struggled to perfect his banana wine in Rwanda. As for many traditional wine-makers in the country, each batch brought uncertainty about whether regulators would approve his product.
Will the US get to Mars quicker if it drops or delays plans to visit the moon?
The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking guidance from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is focused on Mars colonization, will they end up ...
Cold-stunned green sea turtles are recovering at a Florida marine life center
An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning.
A marine heat wave in northwest Australia is killing huge numbers of fish—it's heading south
Tens of thousands of fish have died off northwestern Australia, as a large and long-lasting marine heat wave intensifies.
