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Around 1,000 years ago, a major climate shift reshaped rainfall across the South Pacific, making western islands like Samoa and Tonga drier while eastern islands such as Tahiti became increasingly wet. New evidence from ...

Physical exercise triggers extracellular vesicles (EVs)-tiny particles in the blood-to act as temporary transport shuttles for key hormone precursors. During vigorous exercise, levels of the hormone precursor POMC attach...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years - and it proves that the Hubble tension, a rift in our understanding of the universe, is very real.

Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why.

Breast cancer can rapidly derail the brains day-night regulation of stress hormones, even before tumors are detectable. In mice, the disease flattens normal corticosterone rhythms by altering hypothalamic neuron activity...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age.

New research shows that buying second-hand gifts is typically a thoughtful, intentional decision rather than an impulsive one. Consumers are motivated by fair prices, the thrill of finding rare items, and the desire to s...

New research reveals that when gut bacteria closely resemble the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers, the immune system can become confused and attack both - accelerating multiple sclerosis. In mouse experiments, ba...

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological mechanisms.

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most puzzling materials-from high-temperature superconductors to solar cell semiconductors-by uniting ...

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A new study from a research team at the Center for Wireless Communications Network and Systems (CWC-NS) at the University of Oulu has introduced an approach using near-infrared (NIR) light beyond light therapy to facilit...

Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the worlds glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically

Scientists have discovered a way to efficiently transfer electrical current through specific materials at room temperature, a finding that could revolutionize superconductivity and reshape energy preservation and generat...

Models that think through problems step by step before providing an answer use considerably more power than older models. The post Hugging Face Says AI Models With Reasoning Use 100x More Energy Than Those Without appear...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota-the world's most sensitive dark matter detector. Today, scientists working on the experiment ...

Conditions can get rough in the micro- and nanoworld. For example, to ensure that nutrients can still be optimally transported within cells, the minuscule transporters involved need to respond to the fluctuating environm...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials for terahertz (THz) frequencies, a potential way to address a technology gap for next-gener...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating the flow of fluids and heat, making it lighter and more stable than the state-of-the-art.

Scientists at the University of Oxford demonstrate an approach to interpreting how materials interact with polarized light, which could help advance biomedical imaging and material design.

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By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has solved a long-standing physics problem and uncovered the mathematical trickery...