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May 19, 2025 — The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...
May 19, 2025 — A study shows a non-opioid pain reliever blocks pain at its source -- calming specific nerve signals that send pain messages to the brain. In mice, the compound SBI-810 eased pain from surgery, bone fractures, and nerve injury without causing ...
May 19, 2025 — Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a behavior never before seen in wild primates. Rise and spread: The sightings were remotely recorded by over 85 camera ...
May 16, 2025 — Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary ...
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May 20, 2025 — New research has revealed that puff adders (Bitis arietans) can be highly efficient at controlling rodent populations that threaten agricultural ...
May 20, 2025 — Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but ...
May 20, 2025 — A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it ...
May 20, 2025 — Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, ...
May 20, 2025 — Sets of metabolites found in blood and urine reliably correspond with how much energy from ultra-processed food a person consumes, according to a new ...
May 20, 2025 — New research could improve the efficiency of electrochemical carbon-dioxide capture and release by six times and cut costs by at least 20 percent. Researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a ...
May 20, 2025 — What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think -- and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the surprising ...
May 20, 2025 — Scientists have made a breakthrough in eco-friendly batteries that not only store more energy but could also help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Lithium-CO2 'breathing' batteries release power ...
May 20, 2025 — Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and wellbeing, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale study demonstrates how specific forest characteristics -- such as canopy ...
May 20, 2025 — The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...
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May 20, 2025 — Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by up to two-fifths, a new ...
May 20, 2025 — A study has used advanced genetic and genomic techniques to offer a major step forward in understanding and diagnosing infectious intestinal diseases. The large-scale study analyzed more than 1,000 ...
May 20, 2025 — Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of diseases. For a long time, these specialized connective tissue cells were ...
May 20, 2025 — African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...
May 20, 2025 — Several varieties of wild spinach that originated in Central Asia show resistance to a destructive soil-borne pathogen that beleaguers growers of spinach seed in the Pacific Northwest -- a finding ...
May 20, 2025 — Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic ...
May 20, 2025 — Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, ...
May 20, 2025 — Photovoltaic systems are increasingly being installed not only on roofs but also on open land. This does not always meet with citizens' approval. What is known as agrivoltaics (Agri-PV), ...
May 20, 2025 — Head and neck cancer researchers are reporting the development and testing of HPV-DeepSeek, a novel liquid biopsy assay. In their new study, HPV-DeepSeek achieved 99% sensitivty and specifity for ...
May 20, 2025 — By studying Chikungunya virus, scientists shed light on how immune responses to viral infections may lead to persistent symptoms of autoimmune ...
May 20, 2025 — After invasive American bullfrogs 'croak,' native turtles return to Yosemite, finds a new ...
May 20, 2025 — A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal ...
May 20, 2025 — Humpback whales are not always born in tropical waters, new research has shown -- challenging long-held assumptions about their breeding and migration behaviors, while raising new questions for ...
May 20, 2025 — To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...
May 20, 2025 — Astronomers have filled a large gap in knowledge about Mars' water cycle. Their research on water percolating from surface to aquifer could change the picture of what early Mars was like, ...
May 20, 2025 — Controlling blood pressure is not the only way to treat hypertension. A new study identified eight associated risk factors. Each risk factor addressed was associated with a 13% lower risk of ...
May 20, 2025 — Small clinical study with obese dieters who had chronic health problems found that eating balanced meals and including craved foods with those meals helped dieters manage cravings, even into the ...
May 19, 2025 — A new report identifies the top 12 emerging threats that could accelerate pollinator losses within the next 5-15 years, according to ten of the world's leading ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously -- ...
May 19, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi that lives inside sea sponges and ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Household Action Can Play Major Role in Climate Change Fight
- Advanced Genomics Study Improves Detection of Hard-to-Find Diarrheal Infections
- New Perspectives for Wound Healing and the Treatment of Chronic Diseases
- Asian Elephants Have Larger Brains Than Their African Relatives
- Wild Spinach Offers Path to Breed Disease Resistance Into Cultivated Varieties
- 'Sharkitecture:' A Nanoscale Look Inside a Blacktip Shark's Skeleton
- Cool Science: Researchers Craft Tiny Biological Tools Using Frozen Ethanol
- Agrivoltaics Enjoys Comparatively High Acceptance
- New Blood Test Shows Superior Sensitivity in Detecting HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancers
- Why Some Viral Infections Appear to Trigger Autoimmune Disease
- Native Turtles Return to Yosemite After Removal of Invasive Bullfrogs
- Thousands of Animal Species Threatened by Climate Change
- Surprise Baby Whale Sightings Reveal There's Still Much to Learn About Humpbacks
- Research Team Traces Evolutionary History of Bacterial Circadian Clock on Ancient Earth
- Missing Link in Early Martian Water Cycle Discovered
- Controlling These 8 Risk Factors May Eliminate Early Death Risk for Those With High Blood Pressure
- Eating Craved Foods With Meals Lessens Cravings, Boosts Weight Loss
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Bees Facing New Threats, Putting Our Survival and Theirs at Risk
- World's First Petahertz-Speed Phototransistor in Ambient Conditions
- A Head and a Hundred Tails: How a Branching Worm Manages Reproductive Complexity
- Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar
- Genomic Data Shows Widespread Mpox Transmission in West Africa Prior to 2022 Global Outbreak
- Empowering Robots With Human-Like Perception to Navigate Unwieldy Terrain
- 'Cutting to Survive': How Cells Remove DNA Bridges at the Last Moment
- Survival Trick: Pathogen Taps Iron Source in Immune Cells
- After Cardiac Event, People Who Regularly Sit for Too Long Had Higher Risk of Another Event
- Streaked Slopes on Mars Probably Not Signs of Water Flow, Study Finds
- Cover Crops May Not Be Solution for Both Crop Yield, Carbon Sequestration
- Researchers Take AI to 'kindergarten' In Order to Learn More Complex Tasks
- Glaciers Will Take Centuries to Recover Even If Global Warming Is Reversed, Scientists Warn
- More Donor Hearts by Extending the Preservation Time
- First-of-Its-Kind Global Study Shows Grasslands Can Withstand Climate Extremes With a Boost of Nutrients
- Nimble Dimples: Agile Underwater Vehicles Inspired by Golf Balls
- Family of Parasite Proteins Presents New Potential Malaria Treatment Target
- Scientific Breakthrough: We Can Now Halve the Price of Costly Cancer Drug
- A First Blueprint of Chemical Transport Pathways in Human Cells
- How Did Plants Evolve the Ability to Transport Massive Amounts of Protein Into Seed Vacuoles?
- How to Swim Without a Brain
- New Protein Target for Childhood Medulloblastomas
- Could Nanoplastics in the Environment Turn E. Coli Into a Bigger Villain?
- Maintaining Balance in the Immune System
- New Research Highlights Health Benefits of Using Heritage Art Practices in Art Therapy
- Sophisticated Data Analysis Uncovers How City Living Disrupts ADHD's Path to Obesity
- Scientists Use Salinity to Trace Changes in the US Northeast Coastal Ocean
- Mice Use Chemical Cues Such as Odors to Sense Social Hierarchy
- AI Chip Developed for Decentralized Use Without the Cloud
- With Evolutionary AI, Scientists Find Hidden Keys for Better Land Use
- Invisible Currents at the Edge: Research Team Shows How Magnetic Particles Reveal a Hidden Rule of Nature
- Fitness Fight: Native Bees Struggle Against Invasive Honey Bee
- Machine Learning Model Helps Identify Patients at Risk of Postpartum Depression
- Stars or Numbers? How Rating Formats Change Consumer Behavior
- Waist-to-Height Ratio Predicts Heart Failure Incidence
- Remotely Controlled Robots at Your Fingertips: Enhancing Safety in Industrial Sites
- Fast Food, Fast Impact: How Fatty Meals Rapidly Weaken Our Gut Defenses
- Scientists Describe 71 New Australian Bee Species
- The Invisible Order Sets the Fluctuation in the Terahertz Region of Glass
- Chemists Develop Compact Catenane With Tuneable Mechanical Chirality
- Not One, but Two Massive Black Holes Are Eating Away at This Galaxy
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Researchers Find CRISPR Is Capable of Even More Than We Thought
- Longer-Lasting Wearables Set to Transform Health Monitoring
- Heat-Tolerant Symbionts a Critical Key to Protecting Florida's Elkhorn Coral from Bleaching During Marine Heatwaves
- Study Reveals Healing the Ozone Hole Helps the Southern Ocean Take Up Carbon
- Individual Layers of Synthetic Materials Can Collaborate for Greater Impact
- Could Personality Tests Help Make Bipolar Disorder Treatment More Precise?
- UCF's 'bridge Doctor' Combines Imaging, Neural Network to Efficiently Evaluate Concrete Bridges' Safety
- Scientists Discover Key Gene Impacts Liver Energy Storage, Affecting Metabolic Disease Risk
- A Step Closer to the Confident Production of Blood Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
- Designing the Future of Clean Energy: Janus Heterobilayers Lead the Way
- Relieve Your Pain With a Psychologist or an App
- How Antibiotic Resistance to Fusidic Acid Works
- Rising Temperatures Lead to Unexpectedly Rapid Carbon Release from Soils
- How Do Middle-Aged Folks Get Dementia? It Could Be These Proteins
- Novel Molecular Maneuver Helps Malaria Parasite Dodge the Immune System
- Ancient Ocean Sediments Link Changes in Currents to Cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 Million Years Ago
- GPS for Proteins: Tracking the Motions of Cell Receptors
- Hazardous Reactions Made Safer Through Flow Technology
- Light-to-Electricity Nanodevice Reveals How Earth's Oldest Surviving Cyanobacteria Worked
- New Model for More Accurate Landslide Prediction
- New Auditory Brainstem Implant Shows Early Promise
- Log in to Your Computer With a Secret Message Encoded in a Molecule
- In Healthy Aging, Carb Quality Counts
- Thousands of Cardiac 'digital Twins' Offer New Insights Into the Heart
- Study Reveals Impacts of Alzheimer's Disease on the Whole Body
- Very Different Mammals Follow the Same Rules of Behavior
- AI-Powered App Enables Anemia Screening Using Fingernail Selfies
- Overlooked Cell Type Orchestrates Brain Rewiring
- Language a Barrier in Biodiversity Work
- One in Ten Asthma Cases Can Be Avoided With a Better Urban Environment
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- A Vicious Cycle: How Methane Emissions from Warming Wetlands Could Exacerbate Climate Change
- New Gene Editor Enables Greater Precision
- New Insights Into Quantum Physics
- Can the Brain Be Targeted to Treat Type 2 Diabetes?
- Bismuth's Mask Uncovered: Implications for Quantum Computing and Spintronics Materials
- Study Reveals a Deep Brain Region That Links the Senses
- Study Suggests Loss of Lung Capacity Begins Between the Ages of 20 and 25
- School Dinners May Encourage Picky Teenagers to Eat Better, Says New Study
- Ultraviolet Data from NASA's Europa Clipper Mission
- Two HIV Vaccine Trials Show Proof of Concept for Pathway to Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
- Particles Carrying Multiple Vaccine Doses Could Reduce the Need for Follow-Up Shots
- Asians Made Humanity's Longest Prehistoric Migration and Shaped the Genetic Landscape in the Americas