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Aviation in the news
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Goodyear Blimp at 100: From Ronald Reagan to Ice Cube, 'floating piece of Americana' still thriving

Flying a few hundred feet above the streets and shores of Daytona Beach, the Goodyear Blimp draws a crowd.
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Innovators gear up work on 'green' hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth

When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about climate change but held little promise of revolutionizing air travel.
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Earth sciences
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AI weather models rival traditional systems in convective-scale forecasts

To effectively present the uncertainty of convective-scale weather forecasts, convective-scale ensemble prediction systems have been developed at major operational centers, whose lateral boundary conditions are usually provided by global numerical weather models.
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NOAA's vast public weather data powers the local forecasts. A private company alone couldn't match it

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it's headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all that information?
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If FEMA didn't exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?

Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no federal agency prepared to quickly send supplies, financial aid and temporary housing assistance.
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Dust storms and wind erosion cause $154 billion in damages annually, study shows

A windy, dusty day can ruin your new car wash and leave you with grit in your mouth and dirt on your floors. But a new study in the journal Nature Sustainability, published by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso, George Mason University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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Atmospheric rivers explain atypical El Niño and La Niña years

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the Southwestern United States, respectively. In 2023, however, a La Niña year proved extremely wet in the Southwest instead of dry.
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How does that atmospheric river flow? Scientists modernize research to understand

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy weather patterns to improve forecasts and to help control, and ultimately modernize, the complex labyrinth of waterways hydrating California.
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Arctic cyclones could be missing link in sea ice depletion models

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. Led by Steven Cavallo, a professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, the study could lead to more...
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A climate change signal in the Tropical Pacific: Research reveals models' blind spot

Throughout the world, extreme weather is driving a growing death toll, exacting billions in damage, threatening food and water security and escalating forced migration. Yet some of the most sophisticated climate models—computer simulations of the Earth's vast, complex climate system, based upon...
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Unraveling a paradox: Study explores why extreme cold events persist despite global warming

Despite 2023 and 2024 being the warmest years on record, extreme cold events are still affecting regions across China, Europe, and North America. A recent study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science examines this paradox and evaluates future risks associated with ongoing climate change.
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Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.
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Engineers design new autonomous system to monitor Arctic's melting ice

The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice has sparked serious concerns in the scientific community. In addition, sea ice thickness has also decreased, which makes ice cover more vulnerable to warming air and ocean temperatures.
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Modern slavery and climate change: How extreme weather fuels forced labor and unwanted marriages

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions for a rise in modern slavery.
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Researchers reveal drier mid-Holocene in Tarim Basin linked to poleward displacement of westerly jet

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed an innovative approach to examining the contrasting hydroclimate impacts of summer monsoons and westerly circulation in the hyper-arid Asian...
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Arid Athens turns to ancient aqueduct as climate crisis bites

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago.
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Anomaly in the deep sea: Accumulation of rare atoms could improve geological dating methods

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with the TUD Dresden University of Technology and the...
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Lab experiments add to evidence that Earth's mantle is more complex than thought

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments that show the Earth's mantle is far more complex than previously known.
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Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought: Study reveals structural transformation

The surface of the Earth's inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural changes near the planet's center, published in Nature Geoscience.
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Satellite data analysis reveals warning signs that foreshadowed a volcanic eruption and tsunami

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds and injured thousands on nearby Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. A new analysis of satellite data showed the mountainside was slipping for years and accelerated before the...
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Scientists use distant sensor to monitor American Samoa earthquake swarm

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or tsunami.
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New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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AI reveals new insights into the flow of Antarctic ice

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 190 feet, so precisely predicting how it will move and melt now and in the future is vital for protecting coastal areas.
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Ancient wind patterns reveal future climate risks

A new study has revealed significant changes in the strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the past 11,000 years.
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A volcano near Alaska's largest city could erupt in the coming weeks or months, scientists say

A volcano near Alaska's largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr in the next few weeks or months has increased.
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Volcanic activity billions of years ago set the stage for Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere, research suggests

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, provide a mechanism to explain precursor...
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Earth's orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. For the first time, these new high-resolution...
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Earthquake rupture patterns reveal Mamara fault directs considerable seismic energy towards Istanbul

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban areas, particularly concerning the Main Marmara Fault near Istanbul in western Türkiye.
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Of books and shipwrecks
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Historian reveals emotional impact of White Ship disaster near Normandy in 1120

Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published in the Journal of Medieval History.
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On math

Physics
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Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Weak gravitational lensing could provide an answer

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by leveraging weak gravitational lensing—a light distortion effect described by general...
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swimming profiles

Nature's wonders
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Age and burial environment don't hinder soft tissue preservation in dinosaurs, study suggests

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in question, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work, published in Scientific Reports, provides further evidence for the preservation of soft...
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How the human neck became a locus of power, beauty and frailty

I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter's wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve.
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Perfect recipe

The seat of all fear
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MRI mapping identifies a brain circuit for creativity

A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are part of one common brain circuit. By evaluating data from 857 participants across 36 fMRI studies, researchers identified a brain circuit for creativity and found people...
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Saved report
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After Trump killed a report on nature, researchers push ahead with release

Major report was designed to answer the public’s biggest questions on nature.
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A way to limit aviation disasters
The AI control system zeroes in on one particularly dangerous aerodynamic phenomenon known as flow detachment, or turbulent separation bubbles, says Ricardo Vinuesa, a fluid dynamics and machine learning researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm....The researchers report that they can reduce these bubbles by 9%.

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On liquids
Understanding water's dual-state behavior could improve climate modeling and weather prediction, provide insights into oceans on distant moons and planets, enhance our understanding of cellular processes driven by phase separation, and advance technologies in energy storage and water treatment.

Rethinking the nucleus:
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Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei models

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about nuclear structure and has...
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Leaping robots, fusion satellites and more! New NASA-funded studies could someday 'change the possible'

"From developing small robots that could swim through the oceans of other worlds to growing space habitats from fungi, this program continues to change the possible."
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Earth's healing factor

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weatherman woes?

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The source of inflammation

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Medical wisdom up-ended

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Men's concerns are real but backlash is not inevitable—the new rules guiding feminism

It's a difficult period for the feminist movement. Space has opened up in public life for people who argue, very loudly, that efforts to level the playing field for women have come at the expense of men.
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How the brain uses 'building blocks' to navigate social interactions

Our brains use basic "building blocks" of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
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Study finds debate training boosts careers by enhancing assertiveness, communications techniques

For those looking to climb the corporate ladder in the U.S., here's an idea you might not have considered: debate training.
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Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.
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Study finds soccer teams move as though they are a single person, offering new insights into collective behavior

What do albatrosses searching for food, stock market fluctuations, and the dispersal patterns of seeds in the wind have in common?
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Most Americans don't know about medical aid in dying options

Most people in the United States don't know that medical aid in dying, a legal practice that allows terminally ill patients to obtain a prescription for medication to end their life, is legal in certain states, according to Rutgers researchers.
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Psychological 'booster shots' can strengthen resistance to misinformation over time

A new study has found that targeted psychological interventions can significantly enhance long-term resistance to misinformation. Dubbed "psychological booster shots," these interventions improve memory retention and help individuals recognize and resist misleading information more effectively...
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Superfood of the gods
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Tapuy rice wine fermentation yields possible anti-aging superfood

Filipino researchers have found a way to optimize the traditional procedure for making Philippine rice wine or "tapuy" to produce a potential superfood rich in anti-aging compounds and antioxidants.
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Franken DNA
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New CRISPRs expand research and biomedical applications upon original's abilities

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that could add to the capabilities of the already transformational gene editing and DNA manipulation toolbox.
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Integrative analysis tool turns spatial RNA sequencing into imager

Spatial transcriptomics is a cutting-edge technique that characterizes gene expression within sections of tissue, such as heart, skin or liver tissue. These snapshots provide insights into how spatial organization affects cellular functions across the spectrum of biology and disease.
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Molecular motors in action: Visualizing α-cyclodextrin movement along polymer chains

Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the molecular level, this concept forms the foundation of molecular motors—intricate systems that could enable advanced materials, targeted drug delivery, and the development of...
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Supercomputer draws molecular blueprint for repairing damaged DNA

Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the effects aren't just skin deep. Inside the body, DNA is literally being torn apart.
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Mapping DNA's hidden switches: A methylation atlas

A new study has been published in Nature Communications, presenting the first comprehensive atlas of allele-specific DNA methylation across 39 primary human cell types. The study was led by Ph.D. student Jonathan Rosenski under the guidance of Prof. Tommy Kaplan from the School of Computer...
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New capabilities in DNA nanostructure self-assembly eliminate need for extreme heating and controlled cooling

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA nanostructures, enhancing their potential for real-world applications in medicine, materials science and data storage.
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Automated method increases the efficiency of bioactive natural product discovery

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous applications, such as medicine and pesticides. There are tens of thousands of untapped natural products, but identifying new compounds with bioactivity can be difficult, especially...
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Medical interest
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When seconds determine survival rates, prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy can save lives

Researchers from an international collaborative team have found that prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is feasible and associated with improved survival for traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) patients when performed in a structured physician-led emergency response system.
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First images capture cholesterol crystal formation in the body

A pair of University of Houston professors, known for their contributions to crystal engineering with specific breakthroughs in the design of therapeutics to prevent crystallization in human diseases, are discovering how cholesterol crystals are formed in environments that mimic the human body.
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Vertical farming research sheds light on producing medicinal compounds

New research on using controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to grow plants with medicinal properties could lead to production methods that will increase one anti-cancer compound naturally produced by certain species of plants.
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Not knowing what to expect can make pain feel worse

When we accidentally touch something familiar, like a warm pan, our brains already know what feeling to expect and how much it might hurt. But if you were blindfolded and had no idea you were touching a warm pan, you'd feel more intense pain—even if the pan wasn't warm enough to harm you. A new...
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Watching nature scenes can reduce pain, neuroimaging study shows

A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception.
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The brain
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Researchers map how individual neurons encode behavioral states

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive brain-wide presynaptic inputs that encode behavioral states, refining our understanding of cortical activity.
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Sharper images: How the brain filters out the noise

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual information, and it could expand our knowledge of sensory perception, leading to applications in neuro-medicine and artificial intelligence.
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Unique dataset explores how brains store and retrieve memories

An international team of scientists has revealed new clues about the neural mechanisms underlying memory formation and recognition in the developing human brain, according to a study published in Science Advances.
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Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then differentiated into a neuron. Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem...
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Two brain areas compete for control of memories, optogenetics study shows

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the so-called locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area permanently alter brain activity in the...
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Whether we imagine navigation or navigate in real life, our brainwaves look the same

Physical and imagined movement through real-world environments may use the same neural mechanism in the brain, suggests a Nature Human Behaviour paper. The findings might help us to better understand human memory in real-world settings.
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COVID-19 discovery opens door to new treatments for chronic lung problems

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID. The findings suggest a new treatment approach for long COVID as well as other conditions, both...
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Bacterial spear-guns--and songbird research

On physics
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Exploring the limits of power: Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is developing an approach that reconciles the two theories in a problematic area. A recently published...
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Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a needle moving in multiple directions.
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Taking a leap of faith into imaginary numbers opens new doors in the real world through complex analysis

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, however, a whole new world becomes possible.
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Untangling quantum entanglement with new calculation formulas

Once described by Einstein as "spooky action at a distance," quantum entanglement may now seem less intimidating in light of new research findings.
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Dudeney's 120-year-old dissection puzzle solution proves optimal

In 1907, the English author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: Can any equilateral triangle be cut into as few pieces as possible that will fit together to form a perfect square? Four weeks later, he presented an elegant solution, showing that only four pieces were needed.
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Quantum tornadoes
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Quantum tornadoes in momentum space: First experimental proof of a new quantum phenomenon

Researchers from Würzburg have experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado for the first time by refining an established method. In the quantum semimetal tantalum arsenide (TaAs), electrons in momentum space behave like a swirling vortex. This quantum phenomenon was first predicted eight years...
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Physicists use optical vortex beams to control atom ionization

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and molecules, a fundamental process in physics that has implications for various fields including X-ray generation and plasma physics.
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The Bard rediscovered

Education today
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Understanding children's subjective experiences through color

In psychology and neuroscience, the relationship between subjective experience, such as how we perceive color, and physical brain activity has remained an unresolved problem. Furthermore, due to their limited language abilities, studying conscious experiences in children has posed a particular...
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Boys in England significantly outperforming girls in math and science

Recent data shows boys in years 5 and 9 in England have scored significantly higher than girls in math and science compared with 2019, report UCL researchers who analyzed the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests

How do young children categorize objects?
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Appropriate use of humor can make science communication more effective, study suggests

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would probably use adjectives like these. However, "funny" would likely not be the first word that comes to mind. Scientists, in fact, rarely adopt a humorous tone when...
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Want to make scientists more relatable to students? You'll need more than photos, study finds

Curriculum developers have made more of an effort in recent years to broaden their depictions of scientists, hoping to more accurately represent the scientific workforce. But does simply seeing a scientist who looks like them make students care more about science?
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New treatment for snakebite
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World-first clinical trial shows promise for transformative oral snakebite treatment

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have completed a Phase I clinical trial for a new oral treatment for snakebite.
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Ebola pill?

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Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels

There are many risks from drinking, but high cholesterol doesn’t seem to be one.
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This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain

Doctors unknowingly took time-series images of the worms invading patient’s brain.
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Hibernating lemurs can turn back the clock on cellular aging

We're all familiar with the outward signs of aging. The face that greets you in the mirror each morning may have sagging skin or thinning hair. But many age-related changes start within our cells, even our DNA, which can wear and tear over time as we get older. Some creatures have come up with a...
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Inducing prolonged torpor-like state in mice slows epigenetic changes that accompany aging

Surviving extreme conditions in nature is no easy feat. Many species of mammals rely on special adaptations called daily torpor and hibernation to endure periods of scarcity. These states of dormancy are marked by a significant drop in body temperature, low metabolic activity, and reduced food...
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"New adsorbent captures CO2 from air and withstands high temperatures."


Madness at the south pole

The accused individual responds
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Audio enclave

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For Sale: A 19th-Century Portrait Painted on a Spiderweb

One of the last surviving cobweb paintings is on display this weekend.
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From Tornado Video Classic—footage of Sterling Colgate (toothpaste fortune heir) doing research on the (supposed) electrical nature of tornadoes—as per Bernard Vonnegut (Kurt’s older brother):
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Wrap-up on Southeastern storms:
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Severe WX - Severe Weather Threat 3/14-3/16

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Comprehensive List Of All 16 Alabama Tornadoes From March 15th Tornado Outbreak : The Alabama Weather Blog

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Severe weather for the Deep Gulf South again today:

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Quantum entanglement reveals strange metals' unique electron behavior at critical point

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals—materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists at Rice University has made a breakthrough in this area using a tool from quantum information science. Their study, published...
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Scientists develop method to speed up quantum measurements using space-time trade-off

In an attempt to speed up quantum measurements, a new Physical Review Letters study proposes a space-time trade-off scheme that could be highly beneficial for quantum computing applications.
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Howard University researcher explores quantum bounds on life's computational power

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2025 - Over 80 years ago, Erwin Schrodinger asked a profound question about the nature of life in his 1944 lectures at Trinity College Dublin, later published as What is Life? Now, in the 2025 Internatio
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His voice's master

Of books, war horses, and history
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Five questions: FSU information professor and resident Agatha Christie expert follows author’s travels to Hawaii

Michelle Kazmer is the dean of Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. She is also a professor in the School of Information
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Agatha Christie would be disappointed at these medical finds

Medical findings
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New study reveals protector protein that supports hair regrowth in adults

Alopecia is an autoimmune disorder that causes non-scarring hair loss on the scalp and body that is experienced by almost 2% of the global population at some point in their lifetime.
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How a critical enzyme keeps potentially dangerous genes in check

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as heterochromatin, makes up around half of your genetic material, and scientists are now starting to unravel its role in your cells.
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Bait
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Sneaky weasels caught on camera with surprising bait choice

When monitoring the health of mammal populations, scientists often use camera traps to observe the animals in their habitats. But weasels are so sneaky they're rarely caught on camera—leaving scientists with questions about this population of predators.
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