One Country, Two Oceans, Twenty Times More Sharks
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For millions of years, sharks left behind a remarkably detailed record of their presence—not in bones or teeth, but in something...
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Most smokers remain unaware that smoking dramatically increases heart disease risk
A large international study has found that millions of smokers still do not fully understand how tobacco damages the cardiovascular system, despite more than two...
Gluons Carry the Proton’s Baryon Number, Study Finds
A decades-old question about what makes a proton a proton has taken a significant step toward an answer. New results from the STAR Collaboration at...
Study examines depression treatment choices among Veterans Health Administration outpatients
Depression care in the US Department of Veterans Affairs health system appears to be moving in an unexpected direction. A large cohort study of 1,582,834...
Determining a Fungus’s Age Is Surprisingly Difficult, Scientists Say
Fungi may be among the oldest living organisms on Earth, yet scientists still cannot answer one of the simplest questions about them: how long do...
AAT/SERPINA1 Pi*Z Variant Influences Gestation; AAT Prevents Preterm Birth in Mice
A genetic variant best known for damaging the liver and lungs may also influence how long pregnancy lasts, according to a new mouse study published...
High Capital Costs Limit Renewable Energy’s Global Climate Mitigation Impact
A new global analysis has found that the climate benefits of renewable energy depend on a financial variable often hidden behind the headlines about solar...
Drug-Resistant Rest Tremor Linked to Slower Parkinson’s Disease Progression
A symptom long regarded as one of Parkinson’s disease’s most visible and disruptive signatures may carry an unexpected message about what happens next. A new...
Survey reveals what people really think about generative AI
Reddit’s Four-Year AI Debate Reveals a Public Torn Between Trust and Distrust Generative artificial intelligence has become one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in...
AI model detects mutations and predicts biomarkers across 32 cancer types
A single artificial intelligence model has demonstrated that routine cancer biopsy images may contain far more biological information than pathologists can readily see under a...
Laboratory differences may mislead scientific AI models, researchers warn
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Artificial intelligence could dramatically accelerate the search for technologies that transform carbon dioxide into useful fuels, but a new multi-laboratory study...
Turning AI Breakthroughs Into Public Health Action
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in health care—not primarily as a tool for discovering experimental drugs or generating medical images, but as a...
Elite athleticism needn’t compromise longevity or fertility
For more than three decades, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have been testing a deceptively simple question: can an animal become extraordinarily athletic...
Phage contingency loci let viruses hedge against bacterial defenses
Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, are often portrayed as highly specialized molecular machines: particles that recognize a host, inject their genetic material and redirect...
Six-Year Ugandan Study Reveals How Sexual-Stage Antibodies Block Plasmodium falciparum Transmission
Malaria researchers are turning attention to one of the most difficult stages of the disease cycle to control: the brief window in which the parasite...