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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 ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 3, 2025

Twisted crystals open door to smaller, more powerful sensors for optical devices

Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to engineer smaller, more capable and more powerful optical systems. How do they work?

Cell & Microbiology Apr 3, 2025

Jumbo phages infect cells with a protective cloaking mechanism, researchers discover

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections. The rising antibiotic resistance crisis poses a significant public health threat in hospitals and ...

General Physics Apr 2, 2025

Repurposed smartphone camera sensors create real-time, high-resolution imaging of antiproton annihilations

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt's team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical ...

Plants & Animals Apr 2, 2025

Alcohol makes male fruit flies more attractive to females by boosting sex pheromones, researchers find

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster drinks alcohol and has shown that alcohol has a direct and positive effect on the mating success ...

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