Nanoplastics Are Strengthening Dangerous Water Biofilms
Imagine invisible grains of plastic turning the inside of a water pipe into a hardened fortress. Small enough to slip pa...
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Ultrasound for Consciousness: Probing the Brain's Secrets
A new noninvasive brain stimulation method — transcranial focused ultrasound — is poised to change how scientists invest...
New Brain Study: Episodic and Semantic Memory Merge
Brain imaging from researchers at the University of Nottingham and the University of Cambridge suggests our brains treat...
Why Autistic Faces Show Emotions Differently — Not a Deficit
New research from the University of Birmingham shows that autistic and non-autistic people move their faces in distinct ...
Obelisk RNAs: Tiny Genetic Entities Hidden in Humans
Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown class of tiny RNA-based entities living inside bacteria that inhabit our ...
Femtosecond UV-C Lasers: Fast Free‑Space Optical Messaging
Ultrafast ultraviolet light has taken a major step forward: researchers have demonstrated a system that can both create ...
How a 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrote Mammal Hearing
New biomechanical modeling suggests that a Triassic-era cynodont, Thrinaxodon liorhinus, could hear airborne sounds usin...
Turning Off an Immune Switch to Prevent Chemo Nerve Pain
Chemotherapy can leave patients with lasting nerve pain that looks a lot like a direct injury to nerves — but new resear...
EAST’s Breakthrough: Beating Plasma Density Limits
China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the 'artificial sun', has crossed a key barrier ...
Nanotyrannus Confirmed: A Small Tyrannosaur Species
For decades, paleontologists argued over whether Nanotyrannus was a separate small tyrannosaur or simply a juvenile Tyra...
Molecules That Compute: Brain-Like, Shape-Shifting Chips
Imagine a chip where the material itself can store, process and adapt — not because of circuit design, but because of it...
World’s Smallest Programmable Microrobot Sparks New Futures
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built an almost invisible, fully program...
Paper Mills and Fake Science: A Global Integrity Crisis
A Northwestern University study warns that orchestrated scientific fraud — not just isolated misconduct — is expanding r...
How Visible Light Lets Us Print Electronics on Skin
A simple flash of visible light can now write functioning electrodes directly onto skin and other surfaces — no toxic so...
New 3D-Printed Aluminum Is Five Times Stronger for Aerospace
A team of engineers at MIT has developed a 3D-printable aluminum alloy that withstands high temperatures and reaches str...
America’s Breakthrough: Monolithic 3D Chips for AI
A team of U.S. universities and a domestic foundry has unveiled a new monolithic 3D chip architecture that stacks memory...
Ancient Metabolites Reveal Diets, Diseases and Climate
Fossils have long told us about bones, teeth and the shapes of extinct creatures. Now they are revealing something less ...
Tiny Power Module Could Help Solve Global Energy Crunch
As global electricity demand surges, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory...
MOCHI: Nearly Invisible Window Insulation to Save Energy
Windows are essential for daylight and views, but they are also one of the largest sources of heat loss and gain in buil...
Why December Seems to Come Faster Every Year — Science
How did we suddenly jump from Easter chocolate to December decorations? The sensation that a year—or just the last few m...