Plants & Animals
Scientists uncover environmental cues behind black bear hibernation
New research from Virginia Tech scientists in the College of Natural Resources and Environment provides fresh insight into how environmental conditions influence black bear hibernation, with implications for wildlife management ...
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Interplanetary spacecraft capture a coronal mass ejection component hidden from Earth
During a coronal mass ejection (CME), the sun hurls billions of tons of magnetized plasma into space. These eruptions are among the most powerful events in the solar system, and when they are aimed toward Earth, they can ...
Archaeologists uncover 11 rare marked arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik whose purpose remains a mystery
For decades, archaeologists have been uncovering rare and mysterious incised obsidian arrowheads across Neolithic Central Anatolia, each one bearing a unique design etched into its glassy black surface nearly 9,000 years ...
Cannabis addiction climbs fast while alcohol use disorder slowly declines across the USA
Alcohol is second on the list of the most addictive drugs in America. By altering the brain's chemistry and triggering the release of pleasure-inducing chemicals like dopamine, alcohol can create a strong desire to repeat ...
Fever-like body heat reduces cognitive differences in preclinical autism model
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in communication, social interactions, learning and sensory processing. Past studies have found that when some autistic children ...
Nonmetallic metasurfaces offer a new way to block radiant heat
Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and Honeywell Aerospace have developed a new way to reduce the transfer of radiant heat between closely spaced bodies by using thin, ...
Engineering
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Genetic algorithms test cybersecurity defenses against adaptive malware
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many people approached their work across the globe. For Carnegie Mellon University Africa's Jema Ndibwile, it changed the way he viewed a completely different type of virus: a computer ...
Computer Sciences
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AI-powered terrain recognition helps cyborg cockroaches navigate faster
Cyborg insects combine the mobility of living organisms with miniature electronic devices, offering potential applications in search-and-rescue operations, infrastructure inspection and exploration of environments that are ...
Robotics
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Daily 20 mg of zinc reduces infections by nearly 40% in children with sickle cell anemia
A daily 20-milligram dose of zinc reduced infections by nearly 40% among Ugandan children younger than 5 with sickle cell anemia, according to new research led by scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine and ...
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Genetic algorithms test cybersecurity defenses against adaptive malware
When the algorithm determines wages
Neural network approach makes AI uncertainty checks far more efficient
Q&A: Promise and perils of agentic AI
At 0.8 nanometers, carbon film may replace two layers in future chip wiring
AI helps turn citizen photos into water-level data
Expert comment: New nuclear capacity won't fix today's energy problems
AI bias isn't just an error in the algorithm, it's a chain of human decisions
Turning once-troublesome protons into an energy storage resource for batteries
Hybrid magnetic device enables quantum-inspired secure communication at room temperature
More is different when AI agent populations work together, study suggests
More than 2,300 psilocybin users report real-world outcomes in Oregon and Colorado
Over the past few decades, some psychiatrists and medical researchers have been running controlled clinical trials to assess the potential therapeutic value of psychedelics, substances that alter perception, mood and thinking ...
Lab-grown brain models gain a sense of place
The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how it's organized. Its outer layer, the cerebral cortex, is not one uniform sheet. As the brain develops, ...
Cell & Microbiology
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How the brain distinguishes the consequences of our own choices from events beyond our control
A study led by the University of Oxford has identified the brain mechanisms that help us work out whether the consequences we experience are caused by our own actions or by circumstances beyond our control.
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Why memories get fuzzier with age—and what replaces them
Research from the University of East Anglia shows how our memories change with age and why specific details associated with past events can fade over time. The new study reveals that as people age, they not only remember ...
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We're building a New York‑sized city every month. That's worrying for our climate
We each need a roof over our heads, classrooms to learn in and offices or spaces to work in. To meet this unprecedented demand for new buildings, globally, we're constructing the equivalent of an entire New York City every ...
Environment
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Breaking up of swan families in winter disrupts spring migration
Young Bewick's swans only survive their first spring migration if they stay with their parents long enough. If they lose their parents in winter, they leave later and are unable to keep up with the rest of the population. ...
Plants & Animals
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When the algorithm determines wages
What happens when companies on digital labor platforms no longer decide for themselves how much to pay their workers, but leave this to learning algorithms? Researchers at TU Darmstadt, Bielefeld University and the Université ...
Business
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Quantum dots keep their glow under heat after dual modification
Quantum dots are semiconductor crystals only a few nanometers in size. Their ability to produce bright, precisely tunable colors has made them promising materials for light-emitting diodes, displays, solar cells and other ...
Nanophysics
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New brain cell formation stalls in adults with depression, study shows
Findings from a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggest that the trickle of neurons created in the adult hippocampus could be instrumental in preventing depression. ...
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'Rainbow-on-a-chip' could help unlock 6G networks and precision timing for quantum technologies
Loughborough University physicists and an international team have demonstrated that a grain-of-rice-sized microchip can be used to produce a spectrum of precisely spaced frequencies of light, which is then converted into ...
Optics & Photonics
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The framing of nature changes how kids respond to environmental education
How to teach children to care about the environment? Beyond including climate change and biodiversity in the curriculum, researchers argue that environmental ethics—how we frame the relationship between humans and nature—matter ...
Young people who pass through youth justice die at six times the rate of their peers
Conversations about the youth justice system typically focus on crime and punishment. In Australia, this has fueled increasingly populist and punitive youth justice policies like Queensland's Adult Crime, Adult Time policy ...
Mapping Indonesian seagrass quality to target blue carbon conservation
Not all of Indonesia's seagrass meadows are faring alike. A study has revealed substantial spatial differences in the condition of 21 seagrass meadows across central and eastern Indonesia, providing a clearer picture of where ...
Study finds women build strong workplace friendships than men
Women are more likely to form close-knit friendship groups at work, a Durham University Business School study suggests. The findings are published in the journal Social Networks.
After a wildfire, Britain's moors and heaths can be green again within weeks—but the real recovery takes much longer
Wildfires that have swept across Britain's upland moors and lowland heaths in unprecedented tinder-dry conditions have left behind expanses of smoking, blackened vegetation.
Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent
The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That's the second consecutive year of an early closing.
Women in politics face more personal, sexualized attacks than men, a recent analysis shows
Online spaces, and social media in particular, are forums for vigorous political debate. They provide a space for members of the public to express political opinions, organize and sometimes even interact directly with politicians. ...
New solar system models show Earth is no fluke
Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to sophisticated simulations using thousands of different starting points.
Q&A: How Brown University is navigating the rise of generative AI use in the classroom
In just a few short years, generative artificial intelligence tools have made a leap from novelties that produce stilted text to genuine societal disruptors that may alter the way people learn, work and even think.
What dandelions and bees can teach us about our responsibilities to the natural world
In spring, on the traditional and treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, young children, Anishinaabe storytellers and educators walk together with Aki (Land) and Nibi (Water).
Forest service detects emerald ash borer in 5 additional counties
The Texas A&M Forest Service has confirmed emerald ash borer in Delta, Erath, Hardin, Walker and Wood counties, continuing the spread of the invasive insect into new areas of Texas. Eight new counties have been confirmed ...
Leaving abusive relationships can be harder for migrant women. Here's what they need to feel safe
Like many women raised in traditional cultures and religious contexts, I was taught that a "good" woman holds the family together. In my culture, women were often glorified for quietly accepting hardship.
China is launching a moon mission to find water ice
We've known for nearly two decades that some form of water exists on the moon. What we still don't know is exactly how much accessible water ice lies inside permanently shadowed craters, how deeply it is buried or what form ...
Ph.D. student's forensic review highlights need for standardized bloodstain pattern classification
A University of Staffordshire Ph.D. student has received national recognition for research that could transform how bloodstain evidence at crime scenes is analyzed. Emma Hook has been awarded the Science & Justice Review ...
What comes after fire? What forests need to survive in a warming world
Jennifer Bhatnagar spent the summer of 2023 traversing barren hillsides blackened by wildfire in northern California. She walked through devastated properties, examined the hot soil beneath her feet, collected samples and ...
Spinach peptide discovery leads to citrus greening treatment
A citrus greening disease treatment rooted in more than a decade of research at Texas A&M AgriLife Research has reached a milestone on the path to commercial availability. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted ...
What a record-breaking El Niño could mean for the world
This year's El Niño is on track to be the strongest on record, threatening to unleash extreme weather across the globe and make 2027 the hottest recorded year by far.
Pioneering cancer treatment saves python named Jodie Foster: UK zoo
A British zoo Friday hailed the successful treatment of a cancer-stricken python named after Hollywood star Jodie Foster, who became the first snake to receive an innovative treatment combining surgery and electrochemotherapy ...
Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws
Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school auditorium and talked about ...
Panama Canal to reduce shipping over El Niño-fueled drought
The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month because of drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific said Thursday.
