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An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage

Researchers have mapped the distribution of a jellyfish subspecies and found that creatures which lack a distinctive "knob" are somehow prevented from leaving the Arctic.

Researchers are launching a groundbreaking study to investigate how genetics and the Epstein-Barr virus may work together to trigger multiple sclerosis (MS). Using a method called "recall by genotype," the team will comp...

Learn about dementia, how it affects people, how it's diagnosed and what treatments are available.

Agents are a step up from earlier AI tools. Knowing how they work is rapidly becoming essential. The post AI Agents Are Here. This Is What They Can Do--and How They Can Go Wrong appeared first on SingularityHub.

New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with scientists from TAU Systems Inc., has brought the promise of smaller and more af...

A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might exist on its surface under the right atmospheric conditions.

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of Rodinia, around 800 million years ago.

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.

Mitchondria may be "watchtowers" of the immune system, contributing to our defenses against germs.

Lithium is considered a key ingredient in the future commercial fusion power plants known as tokamaks, and there are several ways to use this metal to enhance the process. But a key question remained: How much does it im...

Used as a versatile material in industry and health care, magnesium oxide may also be a good candidate for quantum technologies. Research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and publi...

Russian ambush drones have been seen in Ukraine fitted with cheap solar panels, which enable them to lurk indefinitely, waiting for a target to come near

Astronomers have detected a puzzling 'unicorn' object that's speeding up rather than slowing down, contrary to the laws of physics.

Quantum field theory (QFT) is a physics framework that describes how particles and forces behave based on principles rooted in quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's special relativity theory. This framework predicts th...

Known for their ability to seamlessly integrate into semiconductor chips, VCSELs (vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers) are used in everything from computer mice to face-scanning hardware in smartphones. However, thes...

Researchers have found a way to make the chip design and manufacturing process much easier -- by tapping into a hybrid blend of artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.

A series of photos taken between 2022 and 2024 shows the emergence and rapid disappearance of a volcanic "ghost island" off the coast of Azerbaijan.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 -- the first when the moon passed between it and the sun, and another when Earth did the same.