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May 1, 2025
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May 1, 2025 — Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing ...
May 1, 2025 — A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground. ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT). The ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological ...
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May 1, 2025 — A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...
May 1, 2025 — The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and ...
May 1, 2025 — Many people around the world believe in karma -- that idea that divine justice will punish people who do bad deeds and reward those who good. But that belief plays out differently for oneself versus ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — A new study may offer reassuring news for parents whose children have a history of concussion, but want to get back to playing sports. Researchers ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Researchers have developed a foolproof recipe for cacio e pepe, based on their findings studying the physics of mixing cheese in water and determining the mechanism that causes the cheese sauce to go ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — The global energy system may be faced with an inescapable trade-off between urgently addressing climate change versus avoiding an energy shortfall, ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — A Phase I trial involving ten patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma or T-cell lymphoma has achieved a 100% overall response ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Depression in young teens could be easier to treat than in adulthood due to the symptoms being more flexible and not yet ingrained, a study ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter the lungs of climbers ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Scientists have developed a highly sensitive method to detect illegal opioids and a veterinary sedative in Australia's wastewater system, providing a vital early warning tool to public health ...
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Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don't yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Every second counts when it comes to detecting and treating heart attacks. A new technology may be able to identify heart attacks faster and more accurately than traditional ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An increase in physical activity between the ages of 45 and 65 could help prevent Alzheimer's disease, while inactivity may be detrimental to brain ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Aiming to address age-related cognitive decline, a growing global health challenge, a team of researchers has developed a VR-based smell-training system to help combat it. This innovative VR game ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. Researchers have now managed to recreate this ancient metabolic process in their ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Protein sources appear to have major effects on both the population and function of the mouse gut ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — In what could represent a milestone in ecological restoration, researchers have implemented a method capable of restoring peatlands at tens of thousands of oil and gas exploration sites in Western ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Breast cancer deaths among women ages 20-49 declined significantly between 2010 and 2020, according to a new ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have found that drug effectiveness, alcohol tolerance, and carbohydrate metabolism change with the seasons. Their findings are based on a comprehensive seasonal gene expression map, which ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound -- that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Researchers have shown they can inexpensively nanomanufacture silk microneedles to precisely fortify crops, monitor plant health, and detect soil ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can be damaging and even ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Essay Challenge: ChatGPT Vs Students
- Engineers Develop Wearable Heart Attack Detection Tech
- Zoo Life Boosts Object Exploration in Orangutans
- Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
- Increasing Physical Activity in Middle Age May Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease
- Children's Reading and Writing Develop Better When They Are Trained in Handwriting
- A Virtual Reality Game Integrating Smell to Fight Cognitive Decline
- Geobiology: Iron, Sulfur, Heat -- And First Life
- Protein Sources Change the Gut Microbiome -- Some Drastically
- Restoring Oil Wells Back to Nature With Moss
- 'Scratching' More Than the Ocean's Surface to Map Global Microplastic Movement
- When Sea Stars Fall, Sea Otters Rise: Sea Otters Benefit from Prey Boom Triggered by Loss of Ochre Sea Stars
- Breast Cancer Mortality in Women Ages 20-49 Significantly Dropped Between 2010 and 2020
- Seasonal Changes Affect Alcohol Tolerance and Your Waistline
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Giant Croclike Carnivore Fossils Found in the Caribbean
- Will the Vegetables of the Future Be Fortified Using Tiny Needles?
- Synchrotron in a Closet: Bringing Powerful 3D X-Ray Microscopy to Smaller Labs
- Study Suggests Dance and Lullabies Aren't Universal Human Behaviors
- Heart Disease Deaths Worldwide Linked to Chemical Widely Used in Plastics
- Rainfall Triggers Extreme Humid Heat in Tropics and Subtropics
- New Machine Algorithm Could Identify Cardiovascular Risk at the Click of a Button
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Hospital-Based Outbreak Detection System Saves Lives
- Global Study Links Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods to Preventable Premature Deaths
- Simple Test Could Better Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease
- Viewing Organs in 3D
- A Vast Molecular Cloud, Long Invisible, Is Discovered Near Solar System
- Unveiling the 3D Crystal Secrets of Defective Nanoparticles
- New AI Model Improves MS Diagnostics
- Social 'hippie' Spiders Don't Believe in Labels: Study Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About Animal Personalities
- Smart Surfaces: A Powerless Solution to Multipath Signal Interference
- Dual Scalable Annealing Processors: Overcoming Capacity and Precision Limits
- Elephant Instead of Wild Boar? What Could Have Been in Europe
- Cell Colonies Under Pressure: How Growth Can Prevent Motion
- Family First: Scientists Reveal Long-Tailed Tits' Remarkable Family Bonds
- Layered Semiconductor Shows Potential for Next-Gen Data Storage
- High-Wire Act: Soft Robot Can Carry Cargo Up and Down Steep Aerial Wires
- Drug Combination Reduces Breast Cancer Risk and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats
- Using Humor in Communication Helps Scientists Connect, Build Trust
- Geoengineering Technique Could Cool Planet Using Existing Aircraft
- 'Wood You Believe It?' Engineers Fortify Wood With Eco-Friendly Nano-Iron
- Climate Change Increases the Risk of Simultaneous Wildfires
- Scientists Observe How Blobs Form Crystals and Discover a New Crystal Type
- Low Iron Could Cause Brain Fog During Menopause Transition
- United States Sees Disproportionate Increase in Body Mass Index Rates of More Than 60
- Natural Killer Cells Remember and Effectively Target Ovarian Cancer
- New Look at Galactic Region Surrounding Our Solar System: Lyman-Alpha Emissions
- Extreme Rainfall: A Long-Standing Hypothesis on Temperature Dependence Finally Settled?
- Gene Circuits Enable More Precise Control of Gene Therapy
- Left or Right Arm? New Research Reveals Why Vaccination Site Matters for Immune Response
- Bacteria's Mysterious Viruses Can Fan Flames of Antibiotic Damage
- Influenza Virus Hacks Cell's Internal System
- Data Collection Changes Key to Understanding Maternal Mortality Trends in the US, New Study Shows
- Personality Traits Shape Our Prosocial Behavior
- Breakthrough Extends Fuel Cell Lifespan Beyond 200,000 Hours, Paving the Way for Clean Long-Haul Trucking
- Updated Equestrian Helmet Ratings System Adds Racing and High-Speed Events
- Want to Understand Grasslands? Look at the Bigger Picture
- Urine Test Could Reveal Early Prostate Cancer
- How Math Helps to Protect Crops from Invasive Disease
- Study Using Simulations Highlights Power of Pooled Data in Environmental Health Research
- Largest Osteoarthritis Genetic Study Uncovers Pathways to New Therapies and Repurposed Drugs
- Blackberries With No Thorns? Scientist Assembles Genome of a Blackberry in Major Step to Breed Better Fruit
- Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users
- New Research Shatters Long-Held Beliefs About Asteroid Vesta
- A Drug Dismantles a Metabolic Barrier to Anti-Tumor Immunity
- Anatomy of a 'zombie' Volcano: Investigating the Cause of Unrest Inside Uturuncu
- Evolution of Pugs and Persians Converges on Cuteness
- First Synthetic 'mini Prion' Shows How Protein Misfolding Multiplies
- Brain Decoder Controls Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Long-Term Survival Rates of Some Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Could Double With Sensitive Bone Marrow Test
- Billion-Year-Old Impact in Scotland Sparks Questions About Life on Land
- High Blood Sugar in Adolescence Tripled the Risk of Premature Heart Damage Affecting Females Worse Than Males
- Noto Quake 3D Model Adds Dimension to Understand Earthquake Dynamics
- Move More, Think Sharper
Friday, April 25, 2025
- Less Intensive Farming Works Best for Agricultural Soil
- Are 'zombie' Skin Cells Harmful or Helpful? The Answer May Be in Their Shapes
- Hidden Mechanisms in Next-Generation AI Memory Device
- Cancer Research Reveals How Chemo Impact Cells at the Molecular Level
- Affordable Hydrogen Fuel Production Using Surface Reconstruction Strategy
- Young Adults and Rise in Dry Eye Disease
- Global Survey Highlights the Challenges of VR-Haptic Technology in Dental Education
- Study on the Reproducibility of Behavioral Experiments With Insects Now Published
- 'Cryosphere Meltdown' Will Impact Arctic Marine Carbon Cycles and Ecosystems, New Study Warns
- New Cell Therapy Shows Promising Results in Advanced Tumor Diseases
- An Earth-Abundant Mineral for Sustainable Spintronics
- New Way to Prevent Duodenal Cancer
- Structure Dictates Effectiveness, Safety in Nanomedicine
- New Body-Fluid Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease Discovered
- AI Helps Unravel a Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Identify a Therapeutic Candidate
- Astronomers Find Earth-Like Exoplanets Common Across the Cosmos
- Chimpanzee Stem Cells Offer New Insights Into Early Embryonic Development
- This Injected Protein-Like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
- In Down Syndrome Mice, 40Hz Light and Sound Improve Cognition, Neurogenesis, Connectivity
- Immune Cells Drive Congenital Paralysis Disease
- Compelling New Insights Into Dynamics of the Brain's Serotonin System
- Cutting the Complexity from Digital Carpentry
- Why Our Waistlines Expand in Middle Age: Stem Cells