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How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

Turbulence in airplanes could become a thing of the past with FALCON, a new AI system that helps vehicles learn how to adjust to turbulence within a matter of minutes.

A recent study reveals that seniors who are more susceptible to "emotional contagion"--feeling emotions from others--are significantly more likely to experience anxiety or depression. Researchers found that emotional sen...

Prolonged mental fatigue can lead to increased aggression and uncooperative behavior due to changes in the brain's frontal cortex. This area, crucial for decision-making, starts to show "local sleep" activity patterns, t...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising role for astrocytes--cells surrounding neurons--in deciding which memories are kept or forgotten. By manipulating astrocytes in mice using optogenetics, scientists found that acidi...

Children with regular bedtimes exhibit better emotional control and behavior than those with irregular sleep patterns. Researchers found that consistency in sleep times helps children handle stress and regulate their act...

Scientists have discovered that the enzyme TYK2 modifies tau proteins, leading to their accumulation in the brain--a key feature of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. By reducing TYK2 activity in animal models, r...

A recent study highlights a connection between asthma and memory difficulties in children, with earlier onset linked to slower memory development over time. In testing episodic memory in children aged 9-10, researchers f...

A research team has developed an advanced continuous rotational scanning photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) system for rapid imaging of living organisms. The research is published in the journal Laser & Photonics R...

Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state

An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of atoms from one place to another through quantum tunneling between optical tweezers. Led by Prof. Yoav Sagi and doctoral student ...

Two quantum information theorists at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have solved a decades-old problem that will require fewer qubits to suppress more errors in quantum hardware.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest recipes in the universe, like the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter known to have existed shor...

Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible strategy to protect surfers and swimmers

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet - but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet's magnetic field

Extreme weather and a growing population is driving a food security crisis. What can we do to break the vicious cycle of carbon emissions, climate change and soaring food costs - or is it already too late?

A newfound rock-shelter in Tajikistan has artifacts created by ancient humans spanning 130,000 years.

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers, in search of where the periodic table of chemical...

An innovative planar spoof plasmonic neural network (SPNN) platform capable of directly detecting and processing terahertz (THz) electromagnetic signals has been unveiled by researchers at City University of Hong Kong (C...

Archaeologists say the "oracle bones" from ancient China were used in magical attempts to predict the future.