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Religious groups may find their credibility and financial support undermined with the growing use of AI and robot preachers, according to researchers. The study involved experiments with the Mindar humanoid robot in Japa...

In a recent publication in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, the research team led by first author Dr. Philip Schädlich, a research associate at the Professorship of Experimental Physics, presents a method for ...

A massive galaxy far from Earth seems to be entirely devoid of dark matter, contrary to all accepted cosmological models.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is a landmark in our understanding of the universe. It gave rise to the notion of a spacetime continuum against which all physical phenomena play out. But over the decades, ...

Researchers discovered the critical role lactate plays in the development of neural stem cells into specialized neurons. They found that lactate sends signals to these cells, aiding in the modification and strengthening ...

A weird lump on a woman's tongue was attributed to a rare condition of unknown cause.

A comprehensive study of over 700,000 US veterans has revealed eight lifestyle habits that could extend life expectancy significantly. Those who incorporated physical activity, freedom from opioid addiction, nonsmoking, ...

For decades, imaging weakly scattering phase objects such as cells has been an active area of research across various fields, including biomedical sciences. One common approach uses chemical stains or fluorescent tags to...

Looking only at their subatomic particles, most materials can be placed into one of two categories.

Light-to-heat conversion has been intensively investigated due to the potential applications including photothermal therapy and solar energy harvesting. Light-to-heat conversion efficiency (LHCE) is the most important fi...

Probiotics might play a vital role in preventing cognitive decline associated with aging. By providing participants suffering from mild cognitive impairment with the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG for three months,...

A new study reveals that public reactions to the deaths of anti-vaxxers due to COVID-19 are multifaceted. The study found that while very few people celebrated these deaths, some individuals, primarily vaccinated individ...

In an unexpected twist, researchers found that muscle loss, a form of 'wasting' during infections, could be beneficial. Their study revealed that during T. brucei infection in mice, fat loss initiated by CD4+ T cells had...

Researchers from the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science at Peking University (PKU), led by Prof. Chen Shiyi and Prof. Yang Yantao, have recently proposed a mechanism to enhance the efficiency of heat transfe...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research by identifying a protein that could be key in slowing the disease's progression. They found that the protein Slingshot Homolog-1 (SSH1) inhibits t...

Polarization, as a primary physical quantity of light, is of great interest to almost all optical sciences and technologies. Along with linear polarization detection, circular polarization (or light ellipticity) detectio...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,300-year-old Iron Age glass workshop that could be one of the oldest in the world.

Neuropathic pain, impacting an estimated 10% of the global population, could be tackled more safely and effectively with the atypical antidepressant tianeptine. Researchers found that tianeptine offers rapid, long-lastin...

The AI that powers ChatGPT appears to be performing less well at mathematical problems than it was just a few months ago

Olive oil could be a key ingredient in reducing the risk of fatal dementia, suggests a new study. The study examined over 90,000 Americans' diets and death records, discovering a 28% lower dementia death risk in those wh...

A team of researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Berkeley Lab has developed a new technique for combining fiber lasers operating at different wavelengths to produce ultrashort la...

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are on the verge of significant disruption through the unlocking of novel applications. This success largely relies on advanced wafer-level miniaturized photonic device fabrication, co...