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Ethiopia Fossils Show Australopithecus and Earliest Homo Lived Side by Side 2.6–2.8 Million Years Ago

New fossils from Ledi-Geraru rewrite a key chapter in human evolutionAn international team working at the Ledi-Geraru fi...

Scientists Pinpoint How Microbes, pH and Temperature Shape Fine-Flavor Chocolate

New lab method reproduces farm fermentation to produce consistent fine-flavor chocolateResearchers have mapped the biolo...

Omega Fatty Acids May Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk in Women: Large Lipid Study Reveals Sex Differences

New lipid study links omega-containing fats to lower Alzheimer’s risk in womenA new lipidomics study indicates that spec...

Turning Nuclear Waste into Fusion Fuel: Could Tritium from Spent Fuel Unlock Clean Energy?

Background: Why tritium matters for fusionNuclear fusion — the process of combining light atomic nuclei to release energ...

Can Cannabis Increase Cancer Risk? What the Latest Science Reveals About Smoke, Immunity and Molecular Signals

Cannabis smoke is more than a mild vaporCannabis is often perceived as less harmful than tobacco, but recent laboratory ...

Machine Learning Enables Load-Independent Wireless Power — A Step Toward a Fully Wireless Society

New machine-learning design stabilizes wireless power transferScientists in Japan have introduced a machine-learning–bas...

Brain's Border Cells Implicated in Alzheimer’s and Stroke: New Multi-Omics Study Highlights Immune and Vascular Drivers

New evidence points to the brain's outer defensesRecent research from Gladstone Institutes and UCSF reframes how we thin...

Large VITAL Trial Finds Vitamin D May Slow Biological Aging by Preserving Telomeres

A major randomized clinical trial indicates that daily vitamin D3 supplementation can slow a molecular hallmark of aging...

Morning Coffee Linked to Noticeable Mood Boost, Large Smartphone Study Finds

Daily data show morning caffeine lifts moodResearchers from Bielefeld University and the University of Warwick report th...

French Fries Linked to 20% Higher Type 2 Diabetes Risk — Whole-Grain Swaps May Cut That Risk, 30-Year Harvard Study Shows

Study design and long-term dietary trackingResearchers analyzed data from 205,107 participants enrolled in three establi...

Magnetism Secures Qubits: New Topological Quantum Material and Discovery Tool Accelerate Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

The challenge: fragile qubits and the promise of topologyQuantum computers derive their power from qubits — quantum bits...

Intercrystals: Rutgers Researchers Discover a New Class of Materials That Control Electrons by Geometry

A new materials paradigmScientists at Rutgers University–New Brunswick have reported the creation of a previously unknow...

99-Million-Year History of ‘Zombie’ Fungi: Amber Reveals Ophiocordyceps Infecting Insects Since the Cretaceous

Ancient amber captures a gruesome parasitic relationshipNearly 100 million years ago, a drop of tree resin preserved an ...

Uranus May Emit More Internal Heat Than Previously Believed, New Models Suggest

Uranus’ thermal mystery: a planet unlike the othersUranus stands out in the Solar System: it rolls on its side so each p...

Ghost Proteins and Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 Peptides Found in Blood Extracellular Vesicles Suggest Persistent Viral Reservoirs

Introduction: A measurable signal for long COVID?Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) a...

James Webb Reveals Planet-Building Materials Survive in Extreme Ultraviolet Environments