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May 1, 2025
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Apr. 28, 2025 — Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud 'Eos,' ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, according to a new modelling ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn't have ...
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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 ...
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. 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 ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — It is now possible to obtain three-dimensional, high-resolution images of enzyme activity in tissue samples or whole organs -- thanks to probe molecules that anchor fluorescent dyes within tissue as ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Metal oxyhydroxides are nanoparticles with wide industrial applications, but determining their exact structure is often challenging. Recently, a research team has developed an advanced imaging method ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Multipath interference disrupts wireless signals, causing issues like TV ghosting and fading. Now, researchers have developed a passive metasurface that overcomes traditional filtering limits. Using ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) arise in various fields such as shift scheduling, traffic routing, and drug development. However, they are ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Conflicting findings in environmental epidemiology have long stalled consensus on the health effects of toxic chemicals. A new study suggests that ...
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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 — 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 — 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 — 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. 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. 28, 2025 — To provide the right treatment for MS, it is important to know when the disease changes from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive, a transition that is currently recognized on average three ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That's according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have created a light-powered soft robot that can carry loads through the air along established tracks, similar to cable cars or aerial trams. The soft robot operates autonomously, can ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Scientists aren't comedians, but it turns out a joke or two can go a long way. That's according to a new study that found when researchers use humor in their communication -- particularly ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a significant step toward the widespread adoption ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — New research demonstrates how mathematical modeling can predict outbreaks of toxic fungi in Texas corn crops -- offering a potential lifeline to farmers facing billions in harvest ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — BU researchers develop a brain-inspired algorithm that can help people with hearing loss pick out conversations in noisy, crowded ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — New research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years later than previously thought, in a discovery that not only rewrites Scotland's geological ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Essay Challenge: ChatGPT Vs Students
- Engineers Develop Wearable Heart Attack Detection Tech
- Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
- A Virtual Reality Game Integrating Smell to Fight Cognitive Decline
- Restoring Oil Wells Back to Nature With Moss
- 'Scratching' More Than the Ocean's Surface to Map Global Microplastic Movement
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Will the Vegetables of the Future Be Fortified Using Tiny Needles?
- Synchrotron in a Closet: Bringing Powerful 3D X-Ray Microscopy to Smaller Labs
Monday, April 28, 2025
- New AI Model Improves MS Diagnostics
- Layered Semiconductor Shows Potential for Next-Gen Data Storage
- High-Wire Act: Soft Robot Can Carry Cargo Up and Down Steep Aerial Wires
- Using Humor in Communication Helps Scientists Connect, Build Trust
- 'Wood You Believe It?' Engineers Fortify Wood With Eco-Friendly Nano-Iron
- Scientists Observe How Blobs Form Crystals and Discover a New Crystal Type
- New Look at Galactic Region Surrounding Our Solar System: Lyman-Alpha Emissions
- Breakthrough Extends Fuel Cell Lifespan Beyond 200,000 Hours, Paving the Way for Clean Long-Haul Trucking
- How Math Helps to Protect Crops from Invasive Disease
- 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
- Billion-Year-Old Impact in Scotland Sparks Questions About Life on Land
Friday, April 25, 2025
- Hidden Mechanisms in Next-Generation AI Memory Device
- Affordable Hydrogen Fuel Production Using Surface Reconstruction Strategy
- Global Survey Highlights the Challenges of VR-Haptic Technology in Dental Education
- Structure Dictates Effectiveness, Safety in Nanomedicine
- This Injected Protein-Like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
- Cutting the Complexity from Digital Carpentry
- Physicists Uncover Hidden Order in the Quantum World Through Deconfined Quantum Critical Points
- AI Model for Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis, With Over 90% Accuracy and Reduced Consultation Preparation Time
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Can Technology Revolutionize Health Science? The Promise of Exposomics
- Nanophotonic Platform Boosts Efficiency of Nonlinear-Optical Quantum Teleportation
- Quantum Sensors Tested for Next-Generation Particle Physics Experiments
- The Heart of World's Largest Solar Telescope Begins to Beat
- Awkward. Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Reading the Room
- Finding 'win-Win-Wins' For Climate, Economics and Justice
- New Method Improves Survival Analysis Power in Clinical and Epidemiological Studies
- A New Recycling Process for Silicones Could Greatly Reduce the Sector's Environmental Impacts
- Evidence Blasted Into Space: Mystery Why Some Meteorites Look Less Shocked Solved
- Flying Robots Unlock New Horizons in Construction
- Trawling-Induced Sediment Resuspension Reduces CO2 Uptake
- New Approach Makes AI Adaptable for Computer Vision in Crop Breeding
- Plant-Based Calamari That Rivals Real Seafood in Texture
- Artificial Intelligence Tool Helps Predict Relapse of Pediatric Brain Cancer
- AI Algorithm Can Help Identify High-Risk Heart Patients to Quickly Diagnose, Expedite, and Improve Care
- Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Better Understand Solar System's Origins
- Making AI-Generated Code More Accurate in Any Language
- Combining Signals Could Make for Better Control of Prosthetics
- Right Patient, Right Dose, Right Time
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- FRESH Bioprinting Brings Vascularized Tissue One Step Closer
- Smart Bandage Clears New Hurdle: Monitors Chronic Wounds in Human Patients
- Scientists Identify Potential Treatments for Emerging Zoonotic Pathogens
- 'Periodic Table of Machine Learning' Could Fuel AI Discovery
- Engineer Reinvents Ceramics With Origami-Inspired 3D Printing
- Generative AI Masters the Art of Scent Creation
- New Porous Crystal Catalyst Offers Durable, Efficient Solution for Clean Hydrogen Production
- Current AI Risks More Alarming Than Apocalyptic Future Scenarios
- From Beam to Battery: Single-Step Laser Printing Supercharges High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Engineers Print Synthetic 'metamaterials' That Are Both Strong and Stretchy
- Bacteria Killing Material Creates Superbug Busting Paint
- Some Protective Resin Coatings May Damage Metal Artifacts
- Scientists Have Found a Way to 'tattoo' Tardigrades
- New Electronic 'skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses
- New Model Predicts a Chemical Reaction's Point of No Return
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
- Innovative Approaches Advance Search for Ice on the Moon
- Crystal Clear Design for High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Semiconductor
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Light Fields With Extraordinary Structure: Plasmonic Skyrmion Bags
- Robot See, Robot Do: System Learns After Watching How-to Videos
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Engineer 'bespoke Enzymes' For Gene Editing
- New Technique Expands Tissues So Hundreds of Biomolecules Can Be Seen Inside Cells
- Transformable Flat-to-Shape Objects Created Using Sewing Technology
- Shining a Light on DNA: A Rapid, Ultra-Sensitive, PCR-Free Detection Method
- A Colloidal Crystal Model for Controlled Polymorph Selection
- Brain-Inspired AI Breakthrough: Making Computers See More Like Humans
- Activity Stabilizes Mixtures
- In US, Saving Money Is Top Reason to Embrace Solar Power
- Using Blue Light to Fight Drug-Resistant Infections
- Astronomers Discover a Planet That's Rapidly Disintegrating, Producing a Comet-Like Tail
- AI Tool Grounded in Evidence-Based Medicine Outperformed Other AI Tools -- And Most Doctors On USMLE Exams
- Using ChatGPT, Students Might Pass a Course, but With a Cost
- Trash Talk: As Plastic Use Soars, Researchers Examine Biodegradable Solutions
Monday, April 21, 2025
- Study Shows Addressing Working Memory Can Help Students With Math Difficulty Improve Word Problem-Solving Skills
- Did It Rain or Snow on Ancient Mars? New Study Suggests It Did
- A Light-Activated Probe Reveals TB Immune System Evasion Mechanisms
- It's a Quantum Zoo out There, and Scientists Just Found a Dozen New 'species'
- Harmful Microplastics Infiltrating Drinking Water
- From Research to Real-World, Startup Tackles Soaring Demand for Lithium and Other Critical Minerals
- High-Tech Sticker Can Identify Real Human Emotions
- Should Farm Fields Be Used for Crops or Solar? Or Both
Friday, April 18, 2025
- Turning Down Starlight to Spot New Exoplanets
- How Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See
- Scientists Probe the Mystery of Titan's Missing Deltas
- Volcanic History and Clues to Ancient Life on Mars
- Generative AI's Diagnostic Capabilities Comparable to Non-Specialist Doctors
- 'Faster Charging, Longer Lifespan': Next-Generation Battery Breakthrough
- Pushing Boundaries: Detecting the Anomalous Hall Effect Without Magnetization in a New Class of Materials
- Soft Brainstem Implant Delivers High-Resolution Hearing
- Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles
- A Wearable Smart Insole Can Track How You Walk, Run and Stand
- Researchers Use Machine Learning to Predict Exercise Adherence