Light that barely advances can make quantum bits feel closer than they are. That is the strange, useful physics at the heart of new work from the University of…
Sep 5, 2025
UK mothers often swoop in quickly when their babies cry, but Ugandan infants, who sometimes wait longer for comfort, calm down faster.
Sep 5, 2025
Cavity villains may owe their power to two tiny sticky molecules. In new work from UC Berkeley, researchers mapped gene clusters in the oral microbiome and found a pair of metabolites that help bacteria grip teeth and each other.
Sep 5, 2025
Abandoned oil wells might soon be capped with a sticky brown liquid made from corn stalks and forest debris.
Sep 5, 2025
Protein has a reputation for being simple: eat more of it, build muscle, feel full.
Sep 5, 2025
It takes only a few board games before you can learn the rules of a new one almost instantly.
Sep 5, 2025
Skipping vision layers can make chatbots teach bomb making. That is not a hypothetical, it is what happened when researchers probed popular open-source vision language models stripped down for use on lower power devices.
Sep 5, 2025
About 40% of American adults live with obesity, a condition that costs the healthcare system an estimated $173 billion a year.
Sep 5, 2025
Teeth can grow on a fish's forehead, then help it mate. That is the odd, very real story of male ghost sharks, deep-sea chimaeras related to sharks and rays.
Sep 5, 2025
Picture a squirrel cracking an acorn. Not with its teeth, not with brute force, but with its hands.
Sep 5, 2025
It's fashionable to declare that we're in the middle of a mass extinction, but the numbers tell a more complicated story.
Sep 5, 2025
The smallest particles in dirty air may be doing something unusually cruel: reshaping proteins in the brain into toxic clumps linked to Lewy body dementia.
Sep 5, 2025
The old rule of diamond making is simple: heat and crush carbon until it gives in.
Sep 5, 2025
Thirty to forty-five days in orbit was enough. Human blood-forming stem cells, nurtured inside AI-guided “nanobioreactors” aboard the International Space Station, began to act older, weaker, and more inflamed than their Earth-bound twins.
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