Chemistry

May 1, 2026

Investigators shed new light on brain activity related to dissociative symptoms

Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms—such as having an out-of-body experience, or feeling emotionally numb—that may help an individual cope in...

Care4Rare celebrates a decade of life-changing discoveries and innovations in clinical genetics

OTTAWA, Canada – – For more than a decade, the Care4Rare Canada Consortium (Care4Rare) has provided answers for families living...

Oncotarget | Nectin-4 is widely expressed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

“In this study, we aimed to determine the rate of Nectin-4 positivity in a contemporary cohort of HNSCC and to...

Arkansas poll finds economy still top concern for Arkansas voters

The 24th annual Arkansas Poll, released today, found voters continue to be most concerned about the economy, politics and drugs,...

Group photo of the project partners during the Assembly

One Biodiversity Knowledge Hub to link them all: the BiCIKL project 2nd General Assembly

The Horizon 2020 – funded project BiCIKL has reached its halfway stage and the partners gathered in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) from the 22nd to the 25th of...

Gardening eased lockdown loneliness as pandemic paralysed Britain

Therapeutic community gardening helped reduce loneliness as the pandemic paralysed the nation, University of Essex research has revealed. A...

Flexible thermochromic fabrics enabling dynamic colored display

Fibrous devices have attracted more and more research due to their unique one-dimensional morphological advantages such as flexibility, light weight...

Effect of isovalent doping in metal chalcogenides; from design to application

Advances in thermoelectric power generation possible with various ‘metal chalcogenide’ materials, recent review shows

Scientists on the forefront of the rapidly growing field of thermoelectric power generation have found that metals and metalloid compounds...

Novel single-crystal production method opens up promising avenues for studies in solid-state physics

Single crystals are materials in which the crystal lattice is continuous and unbroken to the edges of the sample, with...

Examples of results using the proposed method for a bit length of 10. The red line represents the period.

Perturbing the Bernoulli shift map in binary systems

Is it possible for a deterministic system to be unpredictable? Although counter-intuitive, the answer is yes. Such systems are called...

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe

Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?

Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really...

From Graphene to Gravity: Exploring the Physics of Emergence

A new short volume by veteran science writer George Musser covers the concept of emergence in two domains of physics:...

How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary...

Alexandra Zhernakova and Igor Alabugin receive RASA’s Gamow Award

G.A. Gamow award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American...

Multiple routes of muscle-to-CNS signaling

New insights into how exercise protects against neurodegenerative diseases

Amsterdam, November 2, 2022 – Accumulating evidence finds that exercise can improve brain function and delay or prevent the onset...

The study found that neuroscientific evidence does not necessarily lead to mitigated or aggravated sentences, but rather that it interacts with society’s reasons for incarceration.

Neuroscientific evidence induces study participants to recommend longer sentences for convicted criminals if they think prison is for rehabilitation or public protection, but shorter sentences if prison is considered punishment

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237Credit: Emiliano Bar, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237 Article Title: The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing...

Participants in the volunteer group were asked to indicate their top three motivations for participating in a COVID-19 challenge trial from a list of ten options.

Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823 Article Title: Characterizing altruistic motivation...

The study found that both short-term and chronic pain at age 44 were associated with pain and poor health in later decades of life.

Chronic pain associated with poor health – and COVID-19 infection – decades later

People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental...

Screenshot of the Global Jukebox, map view.

“Global Jukebox” performing arts database now publicly available

Extensive data behind the Global Jukebox (http://theglobaljukebox.org) —an online tool for exploring recordings of music and other performing arts from around the...

Do you speak extra-terrestrial?