Condensed Matter
Two distinct exciton states observed in 2H stacked bilayer molybdenum diselenide
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have proved to be a promising platform for studying exotic quasiparticles, such as excitons. Excitons are bound states that emerge when an electron in a material absorbs energy and rises to ...
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Environment
Low-emission zones linked to improved air quality in Belgian cities
A team of health and environmental researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Belgium, working together due to a request from health insurer Mutualités Libres, has found that converting parts of cities to low-emission ...
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Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior: Research hints at an underlying architecture
In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying architecture that ...
Plants & Animals
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Theoretical model provides fresh route to more efficient cooling using light and heat
As climate change and growing energy demands strain global systems, scientists are increasingly turning to passive cooling technologies—ways to cool objects or spaces without using electricity. One promising method is radiative ...
Optics & Photonics
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Researchers find elevated levels of mercury in Colorado mountain wetlands
Climate change is melting glaciers and permafrost in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado, exposing rocks and freeing up minerals containing sulfate, a form of sulfur, to flow downstream into local watersheds.
Earth Sciences
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Microbial monitoring in reef waters offers accessible tool for ecosystem management
Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from microscopic algae which lives inside the corals' tissue and provides the coral with food. Even in the water ...
Ecology
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Oral norovirus vaccine candidate successfully tested in human challenge trial
Vaxart Inc., in collaboration with researchers from multiple academic institutions, evaluated the VXA-G1.1-NN vaccine against norovirus infection. Findings show a 30% reduction in infection rates among vaccinated participants ...
Study maps three decades of white LED progress and key innovation drivers
White light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the semiconductor devices underpinning the functioning of countless lighting technologies on the market today, were first released to the public in 1996. Following their commercial debut, ...
The words of health care providers during prenatal care visits can influence how parents see their children
Pregnancy is often a unique experience, marked by anticipation and mental representations of what will happen after a baby's birth. Understanding how people's experiences while pregnant influence their parenting skills and ...
No more sticky patches: 3D-printed wearable monitors health through skin gases
Wearable technologies are revolutionizing health care, but design limitations in adhesive-based personal monitors have kept them from meeting their full potential.
Biomedical technology
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Tech Xplore
Ancient ocean sediments link changes in currents to cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 million years ago
New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of global cooling that occurred ...
Earth Sciences
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Subtle ligand modifications in aluminum complexes unlock enhanced solid-state light emission
Artificial light, once a luxury, has become central to modern life, with its evolution spanning from fire to LEDs. Now, researchers have developed a new class of efficient light-emitting materials as promising candidates ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Ocean microbes offer clues to environmental resilience
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic changes that help tiny oxygen-producing microbes survive in extreme environments. The findings ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Healing the ozone hole helps the Southern Ocean take up carbon, study reveals
New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease.
Earth Sciences
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Psychological treatment linked to physical brain changes that ease chronic pain
Back pain, migraines, arthritis, long-term concussion symptoms, complications following cancer treatment—these are just a few of the conditions linked to chronic pain, which affects 1 in 5 adults and for which medication ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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GPS for proteins: Tracking the motions of cell receptors
Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers at the University of Basel have uncovered the ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists map activation of prostaglandin E₂ receptor EP1 at atomic level
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a bioactive lipid derived from arachidonic acid, mediates a broad range of physiological processes through four G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) subtypes: EP1–EP4. While the high-resolution structures ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Structural mechanism reveals how antibiotic resistance to fusidic acid works
In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Finely-tuned TiO₂ nanorod arrays enhance solar cell efficiency
A research team led by Prof. Wang Mingtai at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a finely tuned method for growing titanium dioxide nanorod arrays (TiO2-NA) with controllable ...
Nanophysics
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Scientists observe collective behavior of femtoscopic droplets at CERN
At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the speed of light. In such scattering processes, the quarks and gluons that make up these nuclei collide, ...
General Physics
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Study calls for greater coordination between the European Central Bank and national fiscal policies
Researchers at the University of Seville have analyzed interdependencies between fiscal and monetary policies and economic growth in Eurozone countries. The study highlights the need for greater coordination between the monetary ...
Life, death and mowing: Study reveals Britain's poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower
Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry microgenre," using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much ...
Optimizing rice mill lab analysis can improve yield, consumer qualities
Before it gets to your table in a steaming dish, rice has to go through the mill. More specifically, the unprocessed rice kernels that are encased in an inedible hull must undergo milling to reveal the white rice grain.
Tracking down 'annihilation photons' could lead to unique binary systems
Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types of photons are tied so closely to particular phenomena that tracking their sources would help answer some larger questions in astrophysics itself.
Advancing Martian geology mapping with machine learning tools
How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance mapping and imaging methods on other planets? This is what a study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a lone researcher ...
How to aerobrake a mission to Uranus on the cheap
Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed up that process, especially ...
Executive pay is starting to look the same everywhere: That could hurt performance, study suggests
Corporate boards are increasingly paying their chief executives similarly — a shift that could weaken company performance.
Not saying it's aliens: SETI survey reveals unexplained pulses from distant stars
More than 60 years ago, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) officially began with Project Ozma at the Greenbank Observatory in West Bank, Virginia. Led by famed astronomer Frank Drake (who coined the Drake ...
AI can help students learn better when used creatively, say educators
The vast majority of students now use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) programs on a regular basis. Can teachers get students past the principle of least effort and turn these programs into educational tools?
Advancing toward cellulose-based materials for effective and sustainable food packaging
Professor Ying-Chih Liao from the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University has published a study in the Chemical Engineering Journal, presenting fully biodegradable food packaging films developed through ...
Working from home isn't significantly changing where people live, study reveals
Working from home has surged since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among older, high-skilled professionals in and around London and other major cities. However, new research has revealed this hasn't significantly changed ...
Landing on the moon is an incredibly difficult feat—2025 has brought successes and shortfalls
Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering.
Hubble captures the Large Magellanic Cloud
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations ...
Why we fall for fake health information—and how it spreads faster than facts
In today's digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related information on social media or receive it ...
Martian resource potential and challenges for future human activities
What steps can be taken to enhance in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future astronauts on Mars? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as an international ...
TESS has found exoplanets. Can it find rings around them?
Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ranging from scorching ...
A CubeSat to capture a supernova's UV spectrum
Technology readiness levels (or TRL levels, because repeating the last word of initialisms is common in English) is a metric commonly used by NASA to define how developed a technology for use on a mission is. These typically ...
Could dark matter be evolving over time, and not dark energy?
For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard cosmological model. Although all observations support the expanding universe model, observations of the early period of the cosmos give a ...
Students use AI for their assignments—this AI tutor can actually help them learn
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego developed an AI tutor designed to give students an alternative to off-the-shelf AI tools, so that students not only get help but actually learn course‐relevant ...
The space race is being reshaped by geopolitics, offering opportunities for countries such as New Zealand
The space economy is being reshaped—not just by innovation, but by geopolitics. What was once dominated by state space agencies, and more recently by private ventures, is evolving into a hybrid model in which government ...
