Paleontology & Fossils
Fossil of a new mammal species from the age of dinosaurs discovered in Mongolia's Gobi desert
A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) strata of Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
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Plants & Animals
Popularly eaten fish among key seabed engineers, research shows
Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex Seascape Survey scientists assessed the role of fish in bioturbation (churning and reworking sediments) ...
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Researchers find link between HPV and thyroid eye disease
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers have identified molecular evidence linking human papillomavirus (HPV) to thyroid eye disease (TED) through molecular mimicry involving HPV capsid proteins and autoimmune ...
Circular breathwork induces altered states of consciousness linked to improved mental health
Researchers from the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, the MIND Foundation, alongside other collaborators, have found that reductions in carbon dioxide saturation during circular breathwork sessions were correlated ...
Nasal microbiome may help explain link between olfactory dysfunction and cognitive decline
As humans age, particularly after middle age, their brain functions, cognitive abilities and memory can deteriorate to varying degrees. Aging-related disorders marked by cognitive decline, particularly dementia, have become ...
Long-term study links chronic conditions in midlife to higher cancer risk and mortality
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of California, Los Angeles, identified that comorbidities in midlife are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer and cancer-related ...
Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics
Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 365,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.
Health
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Women are overtaking men in the most extreme sports events, study shows
Much of the work devoted to exploring potential sex-specific differences in exercise or sports performance has been derived from laboratory-based studies. While these studies are typically well-controlled and guide an understanding ...
Sports medicine & Kinesiology
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Repurposed Roombas: Scientists program domestic robots for additional household tasks
At a time when we run ourselves ragged to meet society's expectations of productivity, performance and time optimization, is it right that our robot vacuum cleaners and other smart appliances should sit idle for most of the ...
Consumer & Gadgets
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Trouble hearing in noisy places and crowded spaces? A new algorithm could help hearing aid users
When a group of friends gets together at a bar or gathers for an intimate dinner, conversations can quickly multiply and mix, with different groups and pairings chatting over and across one another.
Neuroscience
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Simulation Belongs Where Decisions Are Made
Custom apps bring the benefits of simulation to those who need it, when they need it, in a format that makes sense in their context.
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Tech Xplore
FAST reveals new millisecond pulsar missed by earlier surveys due to signal overlap
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar. The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J2129-1210O, was missed by previous searches as its ...
Molecule can disarm pathogenic bacteria without harming beneficial microbes
A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Université Paris-Saclay and Inserm, has identified a molecule capable of "disarming" pathogenic bacteria in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Snowball Earth: Drone mapping and isotopic dating suggest Marinoan glaciation spanned 4 million years
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Boise State University have found evidence suggesting that the Marinoan glaciation began approximately 639 million years ago and lasted for approximately 4 million ...
Fungi dwelling on human skin may provide new antibiotics
University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million hospitalizations annually in ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Smart surfaces could represent a powerless solution to multipath signal interference
The evolution of wireless communications and the miniaturization of electrical circuits have fundamentally reshaped our lives and the digital landscape. However, as we push toward higher-frequency communications in an increasingly ...
Engineering
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Global map of fishmeal and fish oil factories exposes industry's footprint
Around the world, millions of tons of small fish are processed into fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) each year—key ingredients in aquaculture that help farmed fish, like salmon, grow. A new University of British Columbia (UBC) ...
Ecology
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Less intensive management works best for agricultural soil, study finds
The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function; for example, not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions of a research team led by the Netherlands ...
Ecology
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First atomic map of potato pathogen reveals potential infection mechanism
Plants are susceptible to a wide range of pathogens. For the common potato plant, one such threat is Pectobacterium atrosepticum, a bacterium that causes stems to blacken, tissues to decay, and often leads to plant death, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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New non-invasive brain stimulation technique shows significant reduction in depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms
Patients suffering from depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders experienced significant relief from their symptoms after a new treatment that uses sound waves to modulate deep brain activity, according to new research ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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All-organic solar cells achieve record efficiency by doubling previous performance
As global efforts to combat climate change continue, demand for solar energy is growing. However, since the current most-used silicon-based solar panels include a variety of hazardous substances, their disposal or recycling ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Less-thirsty rice offers hope in drought-stricken Chile
A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions.
Kenya's desperate need for more snake antivenom
Writhing in pain on a hospital bed in a Kenyan coastal town, teenage snakebite victim Shukurani Konde Tuva faced the grim reality of his left leg from above the knee being amputated.
Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX's Starlinks
Amazon's first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's thousands of Starlinks.
NASA's oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
Fresh from space, NASA's oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing.
High-resolution climate models reveal how Tasman Sea temperatures may influence Antarctic peninsula warming
The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the global average in recent decades. Extreme heat events, such as the record-breaking 20.8° C recorded ...
Climate change drives more overlapping wildfire seasons in Australia and North America, study finds
Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions—known as fire weather—that facilitate the spread of wildfires.
Eastern Europe's air has become cleaner: Long-term study from Saxony shows decreasing air pollution
Air pollution with particulate matter smaller than 1 micrometer has fallen by an average of 5% annually in rural Saxony. However, the decreases were particularly marked in air masses coming from Eastern Europe: PM1 concentrations ...
Quality of 3D printing with lunar regolith varies based on feedstock
Lately, there's been plenty of progress in 3D printing objects from the lunar regolith. We've reported on several projects that have attempted to do so, with varying degrees of success. However, most of them require some ...
How personality traits shape our prosocial behavior
Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion and agreeableness correlate ...
Study explores how criminal law could address sexual violence in the metaverse
Carlotta Rigotti, post-doc researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Professor Clare McGlynn, Durham University, have co-authored a new article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, introducing the ...
How the influenza virus hijacks cell machinery to suppress immune alarm signals
The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Their study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen ...
NASA 3D wind-measuring laser aims to improve forecasts from air, space
Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data—including a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the ...
Blackberries with no thorns? Scientist assembles genome of a blackberry in major step to breed better fruit
Thornless, disease-resistant, and tastier blackberries could be on the horizon—thanks to new genetic research from the University of Florida.
Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit: A sociologist of work explains why
It's telling that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration wants to fire bureaucrats. In its view, bureaucrats stand for everything that's wrong with the United States: overregulation, inefficiency and even the nation's ...
New method identifies rancid hazelnuts without removing them from the bag
No more rancid hazelnuts: A research team at the URV has developed a method that can identify nuts that have gone bad due to oxidation. The technique uses infrared light to determine the chemical composition of hazelnuts ...
Using 'shallow shadows' to uncover quantum properties
It would be difficult to understand the inner workings of a complex machine without ever opening it up, but this is the challenge scientists face when exploring quantum systems. Traditional methods of looking into these systems ...
P160C fires up successfully, a new chapter for Ariane 6 and Vega launchers
The P160C qualification motor was successfully tested on 24 April at the European Spaceport in French Guiana, on the solid-propellant booster test stand (BEAP) operated by the French Space Agency (CNES). The successful test ...
First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa
A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the world's first fossil pangolin trackway, with the help of Indigenous Master Trackers from Namibia. ...
Multistakeholder solutions for urban resilience for coastal cities
Rapid urbanization and climate change are intensifying urban flash floods and waterlogging, especially in coastal cities. In a new study published in Risk Sciences, a duo of researchers explore the growing challenges and ...
Cryptocurrency may be evolving into a shadow banking system
A recent study published by political scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, Christopher Olk and Louis Miebs, indicates that the global cryptocurrency system has been undergoing significant transformations. The crypto system, ...
