Cell & Microbiology
How cells rapidly detect viruses that fuse with their membranes
Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune response within an hour.
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Cell & Microbiology
Mitochondrial protein complexes: A single amino acid can jeopardize their stability
Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme carries out this precise trimming at the start of mitochondrial proteins. Without it, numerous ...
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How a century-old solvent can enable efficient amide synthesis
Amide bonds are chemical linkages essential to biology, medicine and materials chemistry. Peptide bonds, a class of amide bonds, link amino acids to form proteins. Amide bonds are also important in medicines and polymers. ...
Biochemistry
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Ultrathin materials could make quantum light circuits programmable
Quantum photonics could be a pivotal part of future quantum technology if the right materials can be created, a new review paper has found.
Optics & Photonics
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An overlooked era of cosmology is stealing the show in the quest to understand the cosmos
Could you imagine if pagers made a comeback? Sure, your smartphone would still be your notepad-flashlight-camera-personal assistant-MP3 player-wallet-social media browser. But imagine if pagers made it so easy to do that ...
Astronomy
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Laser light enables detection of colorectal cancer biomarker in blood within minutes
Researchers often use antibodies to detect specific molecules or biological markers because they are remarkably precise at recognizing their targets. However, finding the faint signals of cancer in blood samples is a challenge ...
Bio & Medicine
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New tools pinpoint where urban trees could provide the most relief from heat
Cities trying to cool sweltering streets often set broad tree canopy targets. But those targets can overlook the reality that not all shade is equally useful, and not every neighborhood has room for more trees.
Environment
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Two ancient burial sites may explain mystery of Göbeklitepe's scattered human bones
Since 1995, archaeologists have excavated hundreds of human bones from Göbeklitepe, an archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye. The ancient remains are around 10,000 years old and date to a time when humans were beginning ...
Menopause leaves a fingerprint that may predict dementia risk
As women go through menopause, they often sense that it's not just their bodies changing, but also their minds. They report hot flashes, anxiety, brain fog and trouble sleeping—all symptoms that can be traced back to the ...
Medical Xpress
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Newfound brain circuit coordinates eating and energy burning when temperatures drop
When the body's temperature falls, it adapts by burning more energy to generate heat and triggering appetite to replace the fuel used to stay warm. While scientists have known about those responses for decades, precisely ...
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Tech Xplore
AI is creating jobs as well as erasing them—but how rewarding are they?
AI and urban design for health: Are large language models ethical advisers?
Data centers' neighbors weigh in on how to manage them
Meta launches camera-free AI glasses amid privacy pushback
Stress-assisted conductivity retention in high-iodine LiBH₄ thin films
NASA modernizes commercial airline systems
At UN, tech chiefs urge caution in AI development
Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants
Previously overlooked protein helps cells divide correctly
Modern technologies have made it possible to uncover a growing "hidden proteome"—proteins encoded by parts of the genome that researchers previously overlooked. Advances in sequencing and protein analysis are making it possible ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Years of fine-particle pollution track with childhood ADHD rates across US counties
Air quality across the country has improved greatly over the decades, as shown in Environmental Protection Agency reports. These improvements are good news overall, but lingering effects of past air pollution still raise ...
Medical Xpress
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Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades
When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder—he provided enough detail about the date to ...
Earth Sciences
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Scientists supercharge plant immunity to boost its natural defense response
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's natural immune response.
Biotechnology
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New form of flexible boron is 10 million times more electrically conductive
The atoms of the 5th element of the periodic table often find themselves in the company of each other, forming allotropes with a rich variety of structural motifs, each carrying a unique set of chemical and physical properties. ...
Plant root injuries unleash pressure waves that travel long distances
When plant roots are injured—by insects, for example—the pressure inside the root drops, and a pressure wave spreads rapidly throughout the root system. In neighboring roots, tiny proteins that act as mechanical pressure ...
Plants & Animals
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By shaping and shrinking light, engineers alter a material's magnetic properties
A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient data storage. Engineers at the University of California San Diego published their findings ...
Engineering
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Adding neurons may keep improving visual signals despite shared noise, analysis predicts
Our brains internally represent the outside world through the coordinated activity of billions of neurons. A single neuron responds unreliably: Even when the same stimulus is shown repeatedly, its activity varies from trial ...
Medical Xpress
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Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope
The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday less than three months after launching on the bold mission.
Space Exploration
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Hidden E. coli survive in bladder cells, but existing drug helps antibiotics reach them in lab tests
Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are among the most common bacterial infections and are caused mostly by the uropathogenic bacterium Escherichia coli. But even after antibiotic treatment, many patients experience another ...
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Critically endangered species in the heart of Africa: Investigating Hooded Vultures in Chad
Slaughterhouses are places most people never want to go, and might seem like unlikely places to search for rare or endangered species. In West Africa, however, they are among the last places one can find a critically endangered ...
Testing an antenna layout for the SKA-Low telescope
SKA-Low is a radio telescope under construction in Western Australia. It will operate across a wide frequency range, from 50 to 350 MHz, and will be the most sensitive telescope of its kind ever built. The completed instrument ...
Q&A: Were small down payments to blame for the housing bubble?
The U.S. housing bubble of the early 2000s sent home prices soaring before the market crashed in 2007–08, triggering a foreclosure crisis and a deep recession.
Students help researchers study how people experience temperature
Are there any geographical differences in how people experience weather conditions? This question was investigated in the citizen science project Kallt och svettigt (Cold and sweaty) for a year with the help of school pupils ...
Personal experience trumps public reputation when people judge others' refusals
A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto of Rissho University experimentally examined how people evaluate others when a person's public reputation conflicts with their own experience with that person. The study was ...
The Uprising: The real medieval revolt that inspired Andrew Garfield's new film
The Uprising, a medieval drama directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Andrew Garfield, is set to hit theaters this fall. The film draws its inspiration from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England.
Researchers track emerging pathogens at Arctic bird gathering
Every year, birds migrate north and gather in a single location in the Arctic, and a team of University of Kentucky researchers is collaborating with Alaska Native communities to study how diseases spread and evolve at this ...
Trade tensions, high prices and interest rates drive slip in consumers' outlook
Consumer sentiment fell by less than four index points in September, reaching its lowest reading in four months and down 15% from January 2026, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Gen Z communicates differently in the workplace, but older colleagues can still decode them
For all the talk about generational differences at work, some of the biggest differences show up in surprisingly ordinary moments.
Teen loneliness may follow young people into the workplace
What happens when loneliness follows a young person from the school hallway into the workplace? New research suggests that feeling lonely during adolescence may be linked to a greater risk of unstable or less secure employment ...
Age, not feed additives, affects antimicrobial resistance genes in chickens
For many years, antibiotics have been added to animal feed to help control harmful bacteria and improve growth. But amid concerns about antibiotic resistance—when bacteria adapt to survive treatments that would normally kill ...
What we evaluate, not just what we see, shapes pupil responses
Our pupils become smaller under brighter conditions and larger under darker conditions. In addition to responding to changes in light, pupil size is influenced by attention, emotion and how visual objects are perceived.
Strategically placed garden plants offer a low-cost way to cool homes in summer
Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home a bit cooler next summer.
Ancient virus hunters: How we discovered sheeppox DNA hidden in medieval gospels
Humans and domesticated animals have lived together for millennia, and this relationship has shaped their destinies in countless ways. Animals offered people food, companionship, traction (pulling plows), clothing and transportation.
September's ozone hole was the biggest in 20 years
The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million square kilometers (10.4 million square miles) in September, the second-largest area ever observed for this time of year.
Nigeria faces world's highest projected heat death toll from super El Niño
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab combined temperature forecasts with research on how heat affects death rates in more than 24,000 regions worldwide and found that the super El Niño could cause ...
Think you know how long you'll wait? Research says think again.
From coffee shops to customer service call centers, most people believe they have a good sense of how long a service will take. But new research from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business shows that customers ...
Curious kids: Does music affect how plants grow?
"How does the type of music affect plant growth?"—Thomas, 14, Auckland, New Zealand
Study finds alpine peaks are greening in the Northeast U.S., Canada
In northeastern North America, a stretch of mountains runs 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the Adirondacks in New York to the Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Quebec. Nearly 70 million people live within a day's drive of one of ...
Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina
A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, a marine mammal expert told AFP on Thursday.
