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Plants & Animals Aug 6, 2026

Songbirds may have developed sharper senses to de-husk seeds

Songbirds, birds belonging to the Passeriformes order, are best known for their ability to produce complex musical sounds. Yet some songbird species also have another remarkable skill: They can easily remove the tough layer ...

Plants & Animals Aug 3, 2026

Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers

Ants live in highly organized colonies and cooperate daily to tackle a wide range of problems. Their striking group behaviors have fascinated biologists for centuries and even inspired the development of various artificial ...

General Physics Jul 30, 2026

Learning may rely on stronger neural connections, not expanding networks

How does the brain learn? Does it acquire new knowledge by creating new neural pathways or by strengthening existing connections? A new study from Bar-Ilan University offers evidence in favor of the latter, suggesting that ...

Nanophysics Jul 28, 2026

Inverse-designed 2D magnonic crystals widen spin-wave band gaps

Spin waves (SWs), or magnons, are collective excitations of magnetization in magnetic materials arising from electron spins. They have attracted considerable attention as information carriers and have shown promise in logic ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 28, 2026

Nanomace catalyst boosts greenhouse gas breakdown up to 14.4-fold

Seoul National University (SNU) College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor Jeong Woo Han of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a new nanostructured catalyst with ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 27, 2026

Water's local asymmetry drives proton hopping between molecules, simulations reveal

Complex simulations—the most intricate of their kind to date—carried out by an international research team led by scientists at Heidelberg University's Institute for Physical Chemistry, have revealed how water governs the ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jul 27, 2026

Soil carbon effectively measured by new, efficient AI model

A new computer model is one of the first artificial intelligence tools to advance scientific discovery in agriculture and biogeochemistry and is 50 times more efficient than its predecessors, according to a study that offers ...

Astronomy Jul 27, 2026

Seven possible quasar lenses emerge from AI scan of 800,000 DESI objects

Quasars, distant cores of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, are among the most luminous objects in the universe. While not uncommon, their brightness can make it difficult to accurately measure the galaxies they ...

Quantum Physics Jul 27, 2026

Quantum neural networks get their first hardware test

Neural networks have transformed how machines find patterns in data, from recognizing faces in photos to predicting the shapes of proteins. So far, all of this progress has been made on ordinary classical computers, but with ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 23, 2026

Zebrafish rebuild damaged 'second brain' networks in nine days, offering clues for nerve repair

Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged gut nerves while humans largely cannot? Michigan State University researchers have developed a new research tool that allows them to remove gut neurons in zebrafish and watch them regenerate ...

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