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Scientists have created an AI tool, called CHARM, that can swiftly identify a brain tumor's molecular identity during surgery, a process that typically takes days or weeks. This advance could help neurosurgeons make crit...

The author of the Women's prize-shortlisted Pod reveals why she decided to write a story that initially felt too daunting - now the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club

This intriguing extract is taken from Pod by Laline Paull, a novel told from the perspective of a spinner dolphin which is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club

A new study highlights substantial state-by-state differences in arthritis-related joint pain across the US, from a low of 6.9% in Minnesota to a high of 23.1% in West Virginia. States in the South, the lower Mississippi...

Life finds a way. That's the conclusion of a new study in Nature, which pitted synthetic bacterial cells against the force of evolution. Stripped down to a skeletal genetic blueprint, the artificial cells started with a ...

Social activity reduces the levels of stress hormone ACTH in women not on birth control pills, but not in women who are. The study, involving women of an average age of 20.5 years, discovered the stress response in women...

Chiral zeroth Landau levels are topologically protected bulk states that propagate in a single direction. In the field of quantum field theory and condensed matter physics, these levels are crucial for breaking chiral sy...

In the photonic synthetic dimension, the coupling of internal degrees of freedom of photons, such as frequency, spatial mode, and orbital angular momentum, generates extra dimensions in addition to real space. This appro...

Alec Luhn joins the UK's new state-of-the-art polar research ship for trials in the North Sea ahead of its first scientific expedition to Antarctica

A faster and more accurate method for putting footage of actors in different backgrounds allows directors to see how their shots will appear as they film them

Optical MNFs are cylindrical optical waveguides with diameter below or close to the wavelength of the light. Since its first experimental demonstration, low-loss silica MNF has been attracting increasing attention in wid...

There are obvious differences between cancerous cells and normal cells in morphology, chemical properties and mechanical properties. The detection of cytochemical and mechanical properties of tumor tissues can provide mu...

Refractive index--the ratio of the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a medium to its speed in a vacuum--can be modulated fast enough to generate photonic time crystals (PTCs) in the near-visible part of the spectrum,...

Microfluidic chips have been made from water encased in nanoparticles and carved into precise shapes, and they could be used to carry out scientific tests on liquids and cells

The observation that the universe appears to run slower in the past was made by scrutinizing the light emitted by gigantic quasars.

Water flows, ice is rigid--this clear difference between the liquid and solid state of substances is part of our everyday experience. It follows from the very regular arrangement of atoms and molecules in crystalline sol...

Walmart is practically giving away the Apple Watch Ultra to celebrate Independence Day.

Lasers with ultra-low threshold and compact size are highly desirable components in photonic integrated circuits, aiming at the application of optical communications, chip-scale solid-state LIDAR and quantum information....

The record for the hottest average global air temperature was broken three times this week, making the past seven days the hottest since instrumental records began in the 1850s

Retinal vein occlusion affects more than 16 million people worldwide and can eventually lead to blindness, but treating it is challenging due to the small size of the veins involved - and now a robot could help

Jaguar attacks on pets and farm animals are a common problem, but after developing a drug-induced stomach ache, the big cats seem to learn not to kill certain animals

The world's average temperature was the hottest on record from July 3 to July 5, 2023. Climate change and El Niño are to blame, scientists say.