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October 7, 2025

Texas A&M Institute part of national effort to harness nuclear laser fusion for limitless energy

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the ultimate source of energy for all life on Earth. On...

T cells tackle new ‘Pirola’ SARS-CoV-2 variant

LA JOLLA, CA—In August, researchers detected a new SARS-CoV-2 "variant of concern" in patients in Israel and Denmark. Since then,...

One of the very first photographs of the HIV-1 virus

40 years after the discovery of HIV, research raises hopes of remission

Nearly 39 million people worldwide are carriers of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and 1.3 million people contracted HIV in 2022....

Infographic based on the WHO and UNICEF’s Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

Mothers need more “exclusive breastfeeding” support

Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is proven to protect both mother and child health. According to...

GFAP (red) Gal3 (white) DAPI (blue) gliosis hemorrhage

New source of stem cells in injury-affected brains of patients

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the LMU have discovered that, in the case of brain injuries, specific cells in the...

The first European manifesto for more sustainable museums

Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, December 8, 2023 – Today, the Center for Cultural Heritage Technologies of the Italian Institute of Technology...

BATS team on BIOS’s research vessel Atlantic Explorer

Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda is warmer and more acidic than ever, 40 years of observation show

Decade-long ocean warming which impacts ocean circulation, a decrease in oxygen levels that contributes to changes in salinification and nutrient...

Researchers investigate the use of generative AI in academic research collection

Battle of the AIs in medical research: ChatGPT vs Elicit

Can AI save us from the arduous and time-consuming task of academic research collection? An international team of researchers investigated...

UTA to train interdisciplinary researchers in mathematics for human health

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded The University of Texas at Arlington a $1.1 million grant to train and...

Virtual reality simulations can help autistic people complete real-world tasks, MU study finds

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Many people associate virtual reality headsets with interactive video games, but a researcher at the University of...

Discrimination during pregnancy may alter circuits in infants’ brains

Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children.Credit: Columbia...

JMIR Mental Health call for papers theme issue on Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being

JMIR Mental Health, a premier SCIE/PubMed/Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed journal with a unique focus on digital mental health, is inviting submissions to...

The evolutionary paradox behind the unusual mating strategy of the ruff

In the colorful world of avian courtship, the ruff (Calidris pugnax) is in a league of its own. Breeding in...

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched by Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the University of Washington will turn cells into recording devices to unlock secrets of disease

The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), and the University of Washington (UW) today announced the launch of the...

Physicists ‘entangle’ individual molecules for the first time, hastening possibilities for quantum information processing

For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists have been able to link together individual molecules into special states...

Princeton Chemistry develops catalyst for electronically controlled C–H functionalization

The Chirik Group at the Princeton Department of Chemistry is chipping away at one of the great challenges of metal-catalyzed C–H...

Well-designed digital health platforms can improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers

Grunt or whistle: successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild honey-seeking birds

In many parts of Africa, humans cooperate with a species of wax-eating bird called the greater honeyguide, Indicator indicator, which...

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town...

If a strong laser pulse hits an iron alloy, the material melts briefly at the irradiated point and a tiny magnetic area forms.

Magnetization by laser pulse

To magnetize an iron nail, one simply has to stroke its surface several times with a bar magnet. Yet, there...

Protected areas in Thailand are at a higher risk of forest fires when located away from indigenous communities, research finds