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A recent study published in Acta Sociologica suggests that partnered fathers who worry about an impending divorce tend to develop greater distrust in political institutions over time. The research indicates that the subjective fear of...

The Guardian

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower. The...

The Guardian

The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the...

The Guardian

Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are hoping to probe just what was going on...

Universe Today

The giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—have challenged our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Specifically, their atmospheric formations and compositions have provided awe-inspiring...

SciTech Daily

Mass General Brigham researchers used long-term data and a blood test for the biomarker pTau217 to identify the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively healthy adults. A team of investigators at Mass General Brigham reports...

SciTech Daily

Scientists are investigating an unusual biological compound that may influence how the body and brain age. The Fountain of Youth may be a legend, but the search for ways to slow aging is very real. Scientists are actively exploring how to...

PsyPost

Higher cognitive ability in adults typically predicts accurate gut instincts, but this mental shortcut takes time to develop. A new study involving middle and high school students reveals that young people rely heavily on slower,...

SciTech Daily

Recycling waste nutrients could cut fertilizer use, but coordination and infrastructure are key. Nutrients recovered from animal and human waste could sharply cut the need for synthetic fertilizers in the United States, according to a new...

NPR Science

Covering the Artemis II mission was a dream assignment for one NPR science correspondent.

NPR Science

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, "America Is Losing the Innovation Race: Why the Future of Science Might Be Chinese."

PsyPost

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition suggests that the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet might be driven by tiny proteins produced inside the energy-generating structures of our cells. Researchers...

SciTech Daily

Deep within Earth’s core, scientists are uncovering signs of a hidden structure that challenges long-standing models of the planet’s interior. Far below the surface, beyond the reach of drilling, Earth’s core may contain a previously...

PsyPost

New research published in The Journal of Sex Research suggests that the specific words used to describe people in the commercial sex industry shape how the public views them. The findings provide evidence that terms like “sex worker” and...

PsyPost

People who experience severe, hospital-treated infections face an elevated risk of developing dementia later in life, and this connection operates independently of other underlying medical conditions. Researchers reached this conclusion by...

Singularity Hub

Future The People Do Not Yearn for AutomationNilay Patel | The Verge “Not everything about our lives can be measured and automated and optimized, and it shouldn’t be. And so the tech industry is rushing forward to put AI everywhere at...

SciTech Daily

A common medication may be taking on an unexpected role in cancer care. What if a cheap, everyday painkiller could help keep cancer from coming back after surgery? New clinical trial results suggest that for some patients with colorectal...

PsyPost

Americans who leave their Christian faith behind tend to hold more liberal political views than those who were raised entirely without religion. This leftward ideological shift appears closely linked to how threatening these individuals...

SciTech Daily

A large international study suggests that a subset of people with Type 2 diabetes carry genetic variants that blunt the effectiveness of widely used GLP-1–based drugs, despite unexpectedly elevated levels of the hormone in their bodies....

Science Blog

Something peculiar happens in roughly 30 percent of people who develop Alzheimer’s disease. The plaques accumulate, the tangles form, the characteristic wreckage of neurodegeneration spreads across the hippocampus, and yet their minds stay...

Science Blog

Roughly a fifth of the world’s irrigated farmland is poisoned by its own water supply. Salt accumulates in the soil as water evaporates, year by year, until the ground becomes inhospitable to almost everything farmers want to grow. It’s a...

Science Blog

Nine proteins. One nucleus. Four hours. That’s the thumbnail version of what a team at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has pulled off, and it perhaps undersells the achievement a little. Until recently, the best...

Science Blog

Inside a thin film of strontium iridate, barely 27 nanometres thick, electrons do something that most metals cannot. They remember which way they’re spinning. Not in any mystical sense; the crystal’s geometry forces it, the atoms arranged...

Science Blog

The blood-brain barrier is one of the body’s more elegant feats of engineering. A continuous sheath of specialized cells lining the brain’s tiny vessels, it keeps circulating blood (along with anything dissolved in it) out of neural...

SciTech Daily

An improved stem cell method produces functional insulin cells that reverse diabetes in mice. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have created a more reliable way to generate...

Popular Science

A rare type of sea turtle is on the road to recover at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia. But this reptile is the offspring of a surprising parent duo: a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) mother and a...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about preeclampsia and eclampsia, and the impact these disorders can have on pregnancies. 

PsyPost

An analysis of data from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California hospitals collected between 2001 and 2014 found that children whose gestational weeks 1-10 and 30-37 coincided with periods of very high nighttime temperatures had a 13-15%...

Scientific American

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot—and caught hundreds of humans visiting

SciTech Daily

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are driving major discoveries and becoming essential tools for researchers. How can we improve them further? A plant missing for nearly 60 years has been found again in one of Australia’s...

PsyPost

A new clinical trial suggests that multiple doses of psilocybin, the active compound in “magic mushrooms,” could provide substantial relief for individuals suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. The findings indicate that repeated...

Popular Science

Mira, my cat, does not care about television. She likes sitting on my lap while I watch TV, she just doesn’t care about what’s on it.  I thought she never would. Turns out I was just watching the wrong things. There are thousands of...

Ars Technica

With the circumlunar flight of Artemis II, and the prospect of landing astronauts on the lunar surface within a few years, humanity is preempting an era where the imprint of visiting the Moon would be erased from living memory. There are...

Science Focus

You might picture knights charging into battle on towering steeds, but medieval horses were typically no bigger than modern-day ponies. An analysis of around 2,000 horse bones from English archaeological sites dating between 300 and 1650...

Scientific American

A British start-up recently pulled off a key maneuver for electric vertical flight—but certification, infrastructure and demand will decide whether air taxis fill our skies

Scientific American

Nacre-inspired ceramics could be the basis for the next generation of energy-efficient technology

PsyPost

Have you ever struggled to remember the name of someone you just met? A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition suggests that the natural stickiness of a person’s face plays a key...

The Guardian

Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct action The criminalisation of direct action climate protests in the UK is counterproductive and increases the determination...

NPR Science

After President Trump and Congress cut certain Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in last year's budget, some clinics have started offering aesthetic services, including Botox, to stay afloat. (Image credit: Tracy Barbutes for NPR)

The Guardian

Progress has always been made by people who think differently. Neurodiversity helps us think outside the box – and when we do, the sky’s the limit One of my favourite pieces of scientific equipment is something called a retrospectroscope....

The Guardian

After a two-year wait, video of a young male crossing above a road gives hope that critically endangered species can survive habitat fragmentation The critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a...

Universe Today

It turns out that even after studying our solar system in depth and discovering more than 6,100 exoplanets across more than 4,500 exoplanetary systems, not all solar systems are created equal. The longstanding notion is that planets orbit...

Ars Technica

The US Space Force released a list Friday of a dozen companies working on Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon's Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense system to shield US territory from drones and ballistic, hypersonic, and...

Universe Today

The Moon has played a huge role in the development of Earth. It stabilizes the planet, tempered dramatic climate swings, and possibly even provided the tidal heating that might have led to the first life forms. So it’s natural we would...

SciTech Daily

Researchers found that certain immune cells, genes, and the drug metformin may help keep HIV dormant after treatment stops, offering new paths toward long-term control. For millions of people living with HIV, taking daily medication is...

SciTech Daily

Ancient skeleton evidence suggests congenital infection doesn’t prove syphilis, pointing instead to multiple treponemal diseases in history. New research led by a Charles Sturt University scientist is challenging a long-held assumption...

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Learn more about the bizarre geological features found throughout our Solar System. 

Discover Magazine (Pay Wall)

Discover how iconic eyespots evolved in certain ray and skate species, a defense trait surprisingly common across the animal kingdom.

Singularity Hub

A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. Humanoid robots are Silicon Valley’s latest obsession, but real-world performance has...

SciTech Daily

Stress-driven drinking early in life can cause long-term brain changes, reducing flexibility, increasing relapse risk, and contributing to cognitive decline through lasting damage to stress-regulation systems. Alcohol has long been used as...