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September 12, 2025

Puffins that stay close to their partner during migration have more chicks

Credit: Dr Annette Fayet Puffin pairs that follow similar migration routes breed more successfully the following season, a new Oxford...

ERC advanced grant for Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Credit: IST Austria With two newly awarded Advanced Grants, the total number of ERC-funded projects at the Institute of Science...

Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to ten meters

Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the EU North State project has developed a new method of using...

Graphene Flagship researches create thin film transistors printed with layered materials

Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin. Graphene Flagship researchers from AMBER at Trinity College Dublin have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely...

In-car cow avoidance

Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The...

ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al. 1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies...

Image release: ALMA captures explosive star birth

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Gemini Observatory/AURA Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as...

Grant to support research aimed at benefitting patients with IBD

Credit: UCR School of Medicine. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine...

Device boosts interaction between light and motion

Credit: Thiago Pedro Mayer Alegre Optomechanical devices, which simultaneously confine light waves and mechanical waves to permit interaction between them,...

UTSA student-led team receives NSF grant to develop vein-finding medical device

Credit: UTSA A student-led team from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the beneficiary of a $50,000...

A new parameterization of canopy radiative transfer for land surface radiation models

Credit: Feng Zhang Among the physical processes of land surfaces, canopy radiative transfer is especially important. It plays a key...

CD38 gene is identified to be important in postnatal development of the cerebral cortex

Credit: Kanazawa University Cells in the brain are categorized roughly into two; neurons and the others, namely, glial cells. It...

‘What do old books smell like?’ — Preserving smells as important cultural heritage

A 'Historic Book Odour Wheel' which has been developed to document and archive the aroma associated with old books, is...

Next Generation TimeTree: An expanded history of life on Earth at your fingertips

Credit: Temple University Temple University's scientists Sudhir Kumar and S. Blair Hedges, of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine...

Patients on HeartMate 3 have fewer blood-related events than those on HeartMate II

Credit: Abbott A six-month analysis of the pivotal MOMENTUM 3 trial found that patients implanted with the new HeartMate 3...

156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields

Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers...

Researchers create new diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer

Loading video... Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University researchers have created a patent-pending, optical diagnostic probe capable of safely and non-invasively...

Mount Sinai study reveals how learning in the present shapes future learning

Neurons in the prefrontal cortex "teach" neurons in the hippocampus to "learn" rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical...

Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons

Loading video... Credit: Mike Tadross, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to...

A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean’s 15th tropical cyclone