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Forming meaningful friendships is a fundamental human need that impacts our mental and physical well-being. Scientists are learning more and more about the exact mechanisms that bring people together. Modern research provides evidence that...

Popular Science

Spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning the birds in our backyards will soon make a lot more noise than before. I, for one, am excited. Birds are obviously great, but as with most subjects, there are all kinds of things we...

SciTech Daily

A new study challenges a decades-old explanation for how bacteria change direction, revealing that the process may be driven by active, energy-dependent forces rather than passive protein interactions. Scientists have identified a new way...

SciTech Daily

Scientists are exploring DNA-based robots, tiny molecular machines that could one day navigate the body, deliver targeted therapies, and even build nanoscale technologies. DNA is best known as the molecule that carries genetic information,...

PsyPost

For decades, scientists have sought to understand the biological foundations of genius by examining the physical characteristics of Albert Einstein’s brain. Various studies indicate that while his brain weighed a normal amount, it...

The Guardian

Nasa confirms meteor after residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visible A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials....

SciTech Daily

A newly identified cellular system monitors subtle variations in genetic coding, hinting at a hidden level of control over how genes are expressed. Human DNA stores instructions for life in sequences built from just four nucleotides. Those...

Popular Science

In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a startling discovery: a hot pink leaf-masquerading katydid (Arota festae), striking a pose in the glow of a research...

Science Focus

Want to lose excess fat? There’s one method scientifically proven to work: the calorie deficit. In simple terms, that means eating a little less food than your body needs to fuel itself each day. Do that, and your body starts dipping into...

PsyPost

New research reveals that the tendency to feel a shiver down the spine when listening to a beautiful song or looking at a striking painting is partly tied to a person’s DNA. The findings suggest that the intense physical and emotional...

Scientific American

Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress

The Guardian

Cosmologists and physicists come up empty handed when they attempt to pin down time. So what, exactly, is it? When was the last time you raced against an unforgiving clock? Perhaps you skipped breakfast, broke a sweat, shelled out for...

PsyPost

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that miniature, lab-grown brain models can reveal distinct electrical activity patterns in different types of autism. By analyzing brain tissues grown from patient urine samples,...

SciTech Daily

A new study explores whether birch tar, long associated with Neanderthal toolmaking, may have served another purpose as well. In a new study from the University of Cologne, the University of Oxford, the University of Liège, and Cape Breton...

SciTech Daily

Cobalt sits at the heart of the clean energy transition, but this study suggests its supply chain is far more fragile than it appears. Cobalt plays a central role in lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles, but its global supply chain...

NPR Science

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the oldest known recording of whale song. And it reveals a noisier soundscape of today's oceans.

Scientific American

The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the science suggest that’s possible?

Ars Technica

More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with copper, manganese, cobalt,...

SciTech Daily

New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas. New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist is challenging a widely accepted idea about the earliest people in the Americas....

PsyPost

New research published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports suggests that efforts to make artificial intelligence more inclusive can sometimes create unexpected new biases. The scientists found that popular artificial intelligence models...

SciTech Daily

A new study reveals an unexpected connection between physical strength and brain activity. A new study points to an unexpected player in healthy aging: a little-known structure deep in the brain that may help maintain physical strength...

SciTech Daily

A small microbe in the respiratory tract may hold important clues about why long COVID persists. According to the WHO, about 6% of people worldwide who get COVID-19, roughly 400 million people, later develop a long-lasting form of the...

SciTech Daily

A forgotten immune organ may hold surprising clues about disease risk, aging, and treatment success. Researchers at Aarhus University are challenging long-standing assumptions about the immune system. Their findings suggest that a small...

SciTech Daily

A newly identified mechanism reveals how proton motion can subtly yet powerfully influence triplet energy transfer in advanced materials. In chemistry, some of the most important reactions do not depend on electrons alone. Protons can move...

SciTech Daily

A new theoretical study suggests that gravitational waves may leave subtle signatures not in giant detectors, but in the light emitted by atoms. Gravitational waves are faint tremors in spacetime set off by some of the most extreme events...

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A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known exoplanets, researchers have identified...

PsyPost

Across different types of military conflicts, people who hold conservative political views are more willing to accept unintended civilian deaths than people with liberal views. This ideological divide remains consistent whether the war...

Universe Today

Marie Mortreux, an assistant professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Health Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers studying how the Mars’s gravity would affect astronauts’ skeletal muscle.

PsyPost

An analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study data showed that children accepted by their parents and more resilient to trauma tend to have an accelerated pace of cortical thinning, an indicator of brain development. In...

Popular Science

In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call “The Gateway to Hell.” In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. The indigenous Yakut people are...

PsyPost

Recent research published in the Journal of Writing Research suggests that the written language of people with schizophrenia provides evidence about their specific symptom profiles. The study indicates that analyzing how these individuals...

SciTech Daily

A long-term Swedish study suggests that the relationship between diet and dementia may be more complex than previously understood. Older adults with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease did not show the expected rise in...

SciTech Daily

A new approach to CAR-T therapy is redefining how cancer-fighting immune cells can be engineered. For years, one of the most effective treatments for certain blood cancers, known as CAR-T cell therapy, has relied on a complex, multi-step...

Popular Science

From a solitary leopard in Botswana to a herd of buffaloes in Sri Lanka, and a church in Slovenia to a rocky landscape in Saudi Arabia, beauty exists in all corners of our humble planet. The Sony World Photography Awards celebrates...

PsyPost

Swapping animal-based fats for vegetable oils is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia in older adults. Based on a long-term analysis of dietary habits, researchers found that the specific types of fat a person consumes...

SciTech Daily

A new study explores how the extreme biology of pythons may point to an unexpected path for obesity research. Pythons don’t nibble. They chomp, squeeze, and swallow their prey whole in a meal that can approach 100% of their body weight....

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to put it together

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help preserve some of these remains. 

PsyPost

People with higher childhood intelligence scores tend to express more socially progressive attitudes as adults, but this connection depends heavily on whether they attend college. A new study reveals that advanced education acts as a...

Singularity Hub

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Is Throwing Everything Into Building a Fully Automated ResearcherWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($) “The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully...

Popular Science

Helvetica and verdana aren’t just fonts. They’re also a few of the new names bestowed upon sea turtles that a team from the New England Aquarium’s turtle hospital rehabilitated this year. This winter, almost 500 live turtles washed up...

Scientific American

Infectious disease experts say shots against meningococcal meningitis can be lifesaving during an outbreak, but U.S. regulators have attempted to roll back recommendations of such a vaccine for children

SciTech Daily

Bull sharks form social bonds and prefer certain companions, challenging the idea that they are solitary predators. These connections may help them learn, find food, and avoid conflict. New research shows that bull sharks develop social...

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Tiny fossils from Hokkaido are revealing a surprisingly mobile ancient ocean during a warmer world. A team led by researchers at Kumamoto University has identified a new genus of microscopic crustaceans in northern Japan, providing fresh...

The Guardian

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around world The skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the heavens opened and one of Brazil’s greatest mysteries...

PsyPost

New research published in the European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology suggests that severe menstrual pain impacts much more than physical comfort. The findings provide evidence that women experiencing...

Science Focus

Deep down, you probably believe you can sniff out lies like a bad smell. Perhaps inspired by Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, you may have confidence in your strong gut instinct and powers of deduction. It’s okay if you do – you’re not alone....

Scientific American

A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that millions of developers rely on

Scientific American

Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to immune changes and cognitive decline

SciTech Daily

Old-growth boreal forests may be hiding much more of their climate value underground than anyone realized. The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new study...