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November 7, 2025

Glenn Weaver to advance childhood obesity research with two new grants

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has awarded two R01 grants – totaling $5.7 million –...

Quantum computing: Benchmarking performance by random data

With increasing size and complexity, quantum computers become a sort of black box. Using methods from mathematical physics, a team...

Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

A team from the University of Leicester, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology and the Institute of Palaeontology at Yunnan University,...

Molecule reduces inflammation in Alzheimer’s models

Though drug developers have achieved some progress in treating Alzheimer’s disease with medicines that reduce amyloid-beta protein, other problems of...

Enhanced chemical weathering: A solution to the climate crisis?

The Earth is getting hotter and consequences have been made manifest this summer around the world. Looking back in geological...

Experimental measurements confirmed the theoretical predictions of the existence of the π-hole.

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of imaging techniques and reveal the mysterious world of molecules

Scientists from the IOCB Prague, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Palacký University Olomouc, have...

Fishers see other breaking conservation rules and then proceed to break the rules themselves.

We’re more likely to break conservation rules when we see others doing it too

Seeing other people break rules can make us act out in ways that we wouldn’t on our own. Applying this...

Wildfire, soil emissions increasing air pollution in remote forests

Satellite data from across California’s landscapes reveal an increase in nitrogen dioxide levels in remote forest areas, and wildfire and...

Produce prescription programs yield positive health benefits for participants, study finds

Around the country, non-profits and local governments are testing the idea of food as medicine through “produce prescription programs”—with promising...

Maintaining stable weight increases longevity among older women

Reaching the age of 90, 95 or 100, known as exceptional longevity, was more likely for women who maintained their...

Researchers at UC Irvine issue a warning that GLP-1RA’s may be dangerous for children

A team of clinicians, exercise scientists, pharmaceutical scholars, ethicists and behavioral experts at the University of California, Irvine, outlined their...

One-pot cell-free synthesis of mature iron–sulfur proteins

Overcoming the challenges to synthesising iron–sulfur proteins outside the glovebox

Fe–S clusters, which are a part of Fe–S proteins, are found across all forms of life. They play a significant...

Golden rules for building atomic blocks

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have developed a technique to precisely control the alignment of supermoiré lattices by using...

Saving species from extinction – high-quality kākāpō population sequencing provides breakthrough in understanding key conservation genetics

Credit: Jake Osborne High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population, funded through a Genomics Aotearoa project, is helping...

$Optical information transfer through random unknown diffusers using electronic encoding and diffractive decoding.$

High-fidelity transmission of information via novel electronic-optical system

Transferring optical information in free space with large bandwidth and high transmission capacity has gained significant attention in various applications,...

URI Professor Jaime Ross, at left, in her lab

Microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, cause behavioral changes

KINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 24, 2023 — Plastics—in particular, microplastics—are among the most pervasive pollutants on the planet, finding their...

Curious and cryptic: new leaf insects discovered

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known...

New study uses technology to protect children from preventable infections

Jan Ostermann, associate professor of health services policy and management, is leading a new project to increase vaccination uptake among children...

Quantum computer unveils atomic dynamics of light-sensitive molecules

DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke University have implemented a quantum-based method to observe a quantum effect in the way...

New startups join Argonne’s entrepreneurship program