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Modular platforms that allow authors to publish pieces of the research process hope to make academic publishing more accessible....

His expeditions to Antarctica helped prove that humans were responsible for global warming....

The otters were found on the state's central coast after contracting a parasite often found in cat feces....

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claims proposed spending reductions for fiscal year 2024 could have "devastating and potentially unrecoverable" effects on NASA programs, delaying or canceling many missions. The post NASA warns of "devastating&#...

Baidu's ERNIE Bot was launched to considerable disappointment. Ng Han Guan / AP On March 16, Baidu unveiled China's latest rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT ERNIE Bot (short for "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration"). The ...

The study, published in the journal Science, shows the ability is regulated by oxytocin, the brain chemical that underlies the capacity for empathy in humans....

A new study shows how hypervelocity stars could teach us more about the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the Universe. The post Hypervelocity Stars Teach us About Black Holes and Supernovae appeared first on Universe Today ....

Here's how to tell whether your eye drops are safe to use and how to recognize a potential infection...

After three years of drought, California has seen a record-setting deluge that seemingly won't quit. And even more water is on the way in the form of a historic snowpack....

A new study published in PLOS ONE provides novel documentation of kelp forest decline along the west coast of the U.S. and Mexico in response to the 20142016 record-breaking marine heatwave, along with evidence of regional recovery. Using Kelpwatch.org, a...

A research team led by Professor Kelvin Yeung Wai-kwok from the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has invented a non-invasive and non-antibiotics technol...

A team of researchers has uncovered new laws governing the flow of fluids through experiments on a technology thousands of years old: a drinking straw. This knowledge could be useful for improving fluid handling in medical and engineering applications....

Effective drugs against viral diseases like COVID-19 are urgently needed now and in the future. The emergence of viral mutants and yet unknown viruses could push vaccines to their limits....

Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and "horseshoe," built around 2600 BC....

ChatGPT has the potential to create increasing and exciting opportunities—but also poses significant challenges—for the academic community, according to an innovative study written in large part using the software....

People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may experience genome structure changes that not only may explain our immunological symptoms after infection, but also potentially link to long COVID, according to a new study by researchers...

The W boson, a fundamental particle that carries the charged weak force, is the subject of a new precision measurement of its mass by the ATLAS experiment at CERN....

The diet quality of fish across large parts of the world's oceans could decline by up to 10% as climate change impacts an integral part of marine food chains, a major study has found....

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon's orbit this weekend, missing both celestial bodies....

Our capacity to care about others may have very, very ancient origins, a new study suggests....

While it may seem daunting, there are still many things we can do individually to slow climate change...

Warrumbungle national park. colinslack/Shutterstock Our new study published in Nature Geoscience on an ancient chain of Australian volcanoes is helping to change our understanding of "hotspot" volcanism. You may be surprised to learn eastern Austr...

Insurers face a "crisis of confidence" as global warming makes weather events unpredictable and increases damage...

Maya Ghazal talks about her successes in aeronautics despite facing prejudice in secondary education The post From war torn Damascus to success as an aviation engineer and pilot, a refugee's journey appeared first on Physics World ....

Environmental scientists at Nottingham Trent University have, for the first time, mapped the extent of known wind farm infrastructures, such as wind turbines and vehicle tracks, on recognized blanket bogs in Europe....

The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web—ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in North America. New research led by Pennsylvania State U...

A research team led by Prof. Xue Yuanchao from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new method for global profiling of in-situ RNARNA contacts associated with a specific RNA-binding protein (RBP) and revealed posi...

Research published in Environmental Research Letters has shown that methane emissions from urban areas are underestimated by a factor of three to four and that untreated wastewater may be a contributing factor....

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City, and the Natural History Museum in London, has mapped the total collecti...

Chinese scientists have identified a key gene involved in crop alkaline tolerance that may greatly improve crop yield in sodic environments through the use of genetic engineering....

The medicinal secrets of the Chilean soapbark tree have been laid bare, unlocking a future of more potent, affordable, and sustainably sought vaccines....

Plants produce all types of curious chemicals. Some deter predators. Some smell wonderful. Some even have medicinal value. One of these hidden gems is ()-jerantinine A (JA), a molecule with remarkable anticancer properties, produced by a plant called Tabe...

1800 light-years away, an unlikely survivor orbits an aged star. This rare planet is called a hot Neptune, and it's one of only a small handful of hot Neptunes astronomers have found. Hot Neptunes are so close to their stars that the overpowering stel...

Consider buildings that are an organic addition to your garden, not just some foreign object that has been plonked into place....

Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize for making natural phenomena more understandable and eliminating dreaded "infinities" from a calculation...

Just a few days after hatching, zebrafish larvae can discriminate between bigger and smaller numbers, suggesting they may have an innate numerical ability...

Hundreds of millions of people lack access to safe water and sanitation. Will the first U.N. conference on water in nearly 50 years make a difference?...

The law has changed to allow the commercial development and sale of gene-edited food in England....

Gene-edited food can now be developed and sold in England, but not in the rest of the UK....

Last fall, a team of physicists announced that they had teleported a qubit through a holographic wormhole in a quantum computer. Now another group suggests that's not quite what happened. The post Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question first appeare...

Luis Caffarelli's work includes equations underpinning physical phenomena, such as melting ice and flowing liquids...

People who engage in random acts of kindness may not fully recognize the impact of their behavior on others...

Trees are instrumental to the quality and health of our lives, our homes, and our planet....

There's a reason Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site for the Perseverance Rover: it is considered one of the likeliest places to find any evidence if Mars was ever habitable for long periods of time. In this great new flyby video from ESA, yo...

Sandhill cranes flying above the Platte River in Nebraska. shannonpatrick17/Flickr , CC BY With chatbots like ChatGPT making a splash , machine learning is playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. For many of us, it's been a mixed bag. We ...

DNA from locks of Beethoven's hair reveals how the composer died, but his hearing loss remains a mystery...

Kevin Brown , Author provided Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Bront are some famous examples. Ludwig van Beethoven's ...

A new study in rats suggests "powerhouse" organelles could help heal not only hearts but other organs damaged by lack of oxygen during cardiac arrest...

While Vibrio vulnificus infections are still rare, the findings provide further evidence of how human health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked....

New device could shed fresh light on the processes that occur as hydrocarbons burn The post Ultrafast laser camera images combustion in real time appeared first on Physics World ....