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Cell & Microbiology 5 hours ago

Sperm don't just swim, they screw their way forward

Monash researchers have discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid vortices—shaped like rolling corkscrews—giving them an extra boost in the race to the egg.

Planetary Sciences Apr 7, 2025

FengYun-3 satellites improve global diurnal land surface temperature tracking

A recent study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing highlights how China's FengYun-3 (FY-3) meteorological satellites have improved global tracking of land surface temperature (LST) throughout ...

Social Sciences Apr 7, 2025

Study finds global downturn in bias against stigmatized groups

In a study that tracked explicit and implicit bias against stigmatized groups in 33 countries between 2009 and 2019, researchers found substantial reductions in explicit, self-reported bias against all categories of stigma ...

Space Exploration Apr 6, 2025

Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin's all-female space flight crew, which includes popstar Katy Perry, is ...

Education Apr 4, 2025

Expert warns of misinterpretations in AI-generated research hypotheses

Researchers from chemistry, biology, and medicine are increasingly turning to AI models to develop new hypotheses. However, it is often unclear on which basis the algorithms come to their conclusions and to what extent they ...

General Physics Apr 4, 2025

Enhancing heat transfer using the turbulent flow of viscoelastic fluids

Fluids play a crucial role in industrial processes like cooling, heating, and mixing. Traditionally, most industries would utilize Newtonian fluids—which have a constant viscosity—for such processes. However, many are ...

Social Sciences Apr 3, 2025

'Making memories' via social media is an increasingly 'crucial' part of live events

Eventgoers' live experiences are shaped by media technologies like social media, whether used in the moment or not, and memory and anticipation are increasingly part of live experiences themselves, research published in the ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 3, 2025

Infrared heavy-metal-free quantum dots deliver sensitive and fast sensors for eye-safe LIDAR applications

The frequency regime lying in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) has very unique properties that make it ideal for several applications, such as being less affected by atmospheric scattering as well as being "eye-safe." These ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 3, 2025

Firefly light gives rise to sensor that detects cellular alterations

The gene encoding an enzyme from a firefly, discovered at the Sorocaba campus of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil, has given rise to a biosensor capable of detecting pH changes in mammalian cells—which ...

Biotechnology Apr 3, 2025

Fluorescent biosensor tracks plant RNA in real time for better crops and biosecurity

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, inside plant cells using a technique that results in a visible fluorescent signal. The technology can ...

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