Research, Space & Discovery
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.The postA New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Ou...
New research adds to growing evidence that ultra-processed foods are linked to health risks. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) now supply nearly 60% of the calories consumed by U.S. adults and about 70% of...
People who were deprived of sleep overnight didn't seem to adapt to being in a potentially threatening space, which may help explain the link between a lack of shuteye and anxiety
A new study has reconciled a long-standing paradox in the South Asian summer monsoon cycle. Climate scientists have discovered why geological records from land and sea have told opposite stories about...
Jupiter's gravity could trigger an outburst of Perseid meteors as the 2028 shower hits its peak.
TrialSite News Supports Parent Survey to Study Sudden-Onset Autism
Screen time was associated with better adolescent cognitive processing, while links between physical activity and cognition varied by sex, activity type, and measurement method. A Finnish study follow...
Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and trigger the biggest upheaval in physics since quantum theory began
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule ended in the spring, when voters replaced him with Péter Magyar, who has pledged to undo Orbán-led initiatives that, in the eyes of critics, isolat...
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mRNA COVID Vaccines and Autoimmune Disease: Review Finds No Broad Signal—but Important Questions Remain
Dr. Christopher Moore, a research fellow and former Ph.D. researcher in hidden and lost heritage at Kent, combined archive records with architectural evidence to link the 1883–84 extension to Sandown ...
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore.
The future of Maine's lobster industry may depend on a creature the size of a sesame seed. Researchers at the University of Maine have discovered that planktonic baby lobsters, or larvae, preferential...
Forest and land fires across Indonesia have spiked once again. News and social media in the country are flooded with images of thick plumes of smoke from Kalimantan (or Borneo)—the world's third-large...
On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper, published in Astron...
Though they are pivotal to Homer's epic, luring Odysseus with the promise of eternal wisdom, the Greek poet barely described the mysterious Sirens. What might a better understanding of these formless,...
For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit flies that these repetitive sections of genetic material act as a kind of bar...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used a theoretical framework to derive design rules for creating new thermoelectric materials. The efficiency of converting thermal energy to electr...
New research from Cardiff University and the University of Melbourne has investigated whether GenAI could mimic human marking when evaluating written student work. The results have been published in t...