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Condensed Matter Oct 28, 2026

When simulations fall short, this spectrometer learns for itself

An NMR spectrometer can reveal molecular structure down to the atomic level, but weak signals limit what it can see. Now, Aarhus University researchers have used AI to let the spectrometer learn the best pulse sequence directly ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 28, 2026

The hydrogen atom: The raw material of the universe barely exists on Earth—now we've made it in a flask

What do you see when you look up at the night sky? While everyone may have a different answer, the truth is that almost everything out there is hydrogen. The first element in the periodic table is by far the most abundant ...

Archaeology Oct 28, 2026

Discovering Vasari beyond the page

Most students of Renaissance art encounter Giorgio Vasari through a book. His Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, first published in 1550 and expanded in a second edition in 1568, is often considered ...

Education Oct 28, 2026

The Advanced Placement gender gap is narrowing but not across all subjects

The gender balance among the top scorers on Advanced Placement exams tends to track the gender balance among students taking those tests, according to a new study led by the University of Georgia.

Astronomy Oct 28, 2026

NASA systems engineering team details Habitable Worlds Observatory mission architecture

Finding an Earth-like world beyond the solar system is the holy grail of exoplanet research, and the field has seen remarkable technological advances in detecting and studying exoplanets since the first confirmed exoplanet ...

Environment Oct 28, 2026

Portable device accurately and rapidly detects PFAS in water

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals known for their exceptional resistance to degradation, earning them the nickname "forever chemicals." These persistent substances can accumulate in water, ...

Earth Sciences Oct 28, 2026

Urban street trees lose much of their capacity to cool during droughts

The combination of heat waves and drought markedly reduces the capacity of street trees to cool the air in Mediterranean cities. The lack of soil moisture severely restricts plant transpiration, reducing the thermal relief ...

Biotechnology Oct 28, 2026

Japan's genome-editing law sets a global ethics challenge

A Hiroshima University researcher contends that Japan's newly enacted law regulating human genome-edited embryos and germ cells marks a significant advance in the governance of reproductive genome editing. Tsutomu Sawai, ...

General Physics Oct 28, 2026

Against all expectations, researchers control the magnetic core of a single atom

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) have succeeded in controlling the magnetism in the nucleus of a single atom with radio waves. This came as a surprise: until now, physicists believed that this ...

Earth Sciences Oct 28, 2026

Parts of Tibetan Plateau's frozen ground are gaining ice despite warming

High on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, the ground stays frozen, with only the top few meters melting each summer. Although the region is warming about twice as fast as the global average, a new study finds that more than a third ...

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