Researchers Start Global Study on Disappearing Heritage Diets
A new effort launched across 12 countries aims to preserve knowledge about “heritage” diets—traditional eating patterns shaped by local ecology and food preparation. The initiative,...
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Biodiversity boosts productivity most during extreme drought in dry grasslands
Biodiversity doesn’t boost ecosystem productivity in the same way everywhere when climate extremes hit. A new global synthesis draws on 75 long-term biodiversity experiments and...
Symmetry Holds the Key to Hydrogen’s Quantum Behavior
Crystal symmetry may determine whether hydrogen inside vanadium behaves like a classical particle or a quantum wave, according to a new study published in Nature...
Optical Singularity Protractor Enables Rotating Metrology with Neuromorphic Sensors
A new “optical singularity protractor” could help laboratories measure rotation with unprecedented sensitivity, using a neuromorphic sensing approach rather than conventional mechanical or purely geometric...
Simulating Long-Term Care Menus to Meet Nutrition and Food Standards
A new study is putting long-term care nutrition under the microscope—using both computer simulation and structured evaluation to test whether real-world menus can reliably satisfy...
Solid-State Carbon Quantum Dots Prepared and Integrated into Electroluminescent LEDs
Solid-state carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are moving toward mainstream use in electroluminescent light-emitting diodes (LEDs), thanks to their photostability, low toxicity, and emission that can...
Annual Reviews Boosts Event Capabilities by Adding Underline Science
Annual Reviews, the nonprofit organization focused on synthesizing knowledge for the progress of science, has announced the acquisition of Underline Science, a platform company that...
Mapping Tumor Microenvironment Immune Pathways in Immunotherapy-Treated Melanoma
A new study is sharpening the map of how the immune system behaves inside melanoma tumors after immunotherapy. Published online in Genes & Immun on...
Early maturation of antimicrobial peptide defenses enables host–pathogen coexistence
Viral pathogens don’t just invade—they pressure the immune system into decisions that can either end an infection or allow long-term coexistence. In a new study...
Brain-Computer Interface Training Could Boost Error Detection Abilities
When the brain coordinates movement, it continually compares motor commands with sensory feedback. Small mismatches—visuo-motor errors—can normally be corrected only if they’re detected in time....
Dielectric metasurface enables spin-multiplexed point spread functions for imaging
Researchers have unveiled a spin-multiplexed approach to point spread function (PSF) engineering that could dramatically improve how optical microscopes discriminate objects and resolve fine structures...
Daydreaming Enables AI to Recall What Matters Most
Daydreaming has been a promising step toward making Hopfield networks—brain-inspired associative memory models—both more capable and more robust. Originally inspired by how sleep stabilizes important...
Elephants Use Ground Vibrations for Communication via Specialized Middle Ear Anatomy
Elephants can “hear” their environment in more ways than we do. Beyond airborne sounds, they transmit signals through their bodies: seismic waves produced by elephant...
Integrating Polygenic Scores with Registry Data to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
A new study published this July argues that colorectal cancer prevention could be sharpened by marrying two types of data that rarely meet at the...
Microplastics Found 2,000 Meters Deep in Hydrothermal Vent Animals
Plastic pollution is increasingly recognized as a planet-wide stressor rather than a problem confined to coasts. Researchers estimate that roughly 11 million tons of plastic...