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Mathematics Aug 7, 2025

Mathematical proof provides new perspectives on the effects of blending

What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and beyond.

General Physics Aug 6, 2025

Researchers discover universal rules of quantum entanglement across all dimensions

A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective theory to demonstrate that quantum entanglement follows universal rules across all dimensions. Their study was published online in Physical Review Letters.

Analytical Chemistry Aug 4, 2025

Topological AI enables interpretable inverse design of catalytic active sites

A collaborative research team led by Professor Pan Feng from the School of New Materials at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has developed a topology-based variational autoencoder framework (PGH-VAEs) to enable ...

Plants & Animals Jul 31, 2025

Twinkle, twinkle leopard seal: Songs below the ice flow like nursery rhymes

In a study published today in Scientific Reports, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung ...

Materials Science Jul 30, 2025

Water's molecular disorder helps turn carbon waste into valuable fuel products

Penn materials scientist Shoji Hall and colleagues have found that manipulating the surface of water can allow scientists to sustainably convert carbon monoxide to higher energy fuel sources like ethylene.

Ecology Jul 29, 2025

The math behind bees, blooms and better harvests

Researchers at UBC Okanagan have created a mathematical model that captures something remarkable: how a bumblebee colony uses and manages its energy, and what that means for farmers, pollination and the future of sustainable ...

Other Jul 26, 2025

Saturday Citations: Hot, hot gold; mechanisms of face recognition; first pathway of gut-brain communication

It's Saturday! Let's review the last seven days of research findings: In a kind of logistics/transport breakthrough, archaeologists in Wales have determined that smaller megaliths surrounding Stonehenge were transported by ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 24, 2025

Seeing the unseen: Laser acceleration technology shows microscopic particle behavior

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles—far smaller than a grain of sand—hit a surface at extremely high ...

Condensed Matter Jul 23, 2025

Superheated gold withstands 'entropy catastrophe': New method challenges established physics

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating.

Materials Science Jul 22, 2025

High entropy alloy material could improve safety in nuclear reactors

Nuclear reactors and spacecraft are exposed to high levels of radiation and high temperatures, so it's critical the metals they're made of are strong and stable.

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