Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or even a year to just days while producing nearly the same scientific conclusions ...
Ecology
A single-atom platinum catalyst lights ammonia at 200 °C and keeps it burning steadily at 1,100 °C with low NOx, generating high-grade, carbon-free heat for steel, cement and chemicals.
Materials Science
Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor could help robotic tools ...
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Researchers have assumed since the 1950s that meaning in language is divided into three emotional dimensions according to a framework called VAD:
They call their new method of analytics "ousiometrics," from a Greek word for "essence." By analyzing large-scale, English-language texts to measure their meaning, they derived an average meaning score. For example, Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" maps to a grid defined by the opposing pairs dangerous/safe, weak/powerful, gentle/aggressive and bad/good.
As scientific investigation into psychedelics advances, researchers have learned that psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, confers long-term therapeutic effects on individuals with depression, anxiety and addiction. These effects can last for at least 30 days after administration.
In a new study, researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London now report that this is accompanied by likely anatomical brain changes that last for up to a month after the experience.
> Scientists have suggested that this relationship may be connected to the individual's time perspective—their personal orientation toward the past, present and future. Researchers in Prague conducted a study with 152 adults who completed validated measures of interoceptive awareness, time perspective and self-rated indicators of somatic experience including sleep quality and digestion.
>The volunteers with the highest interoceptive awareness reported better somatic functioning, and the association was partially influenced by time perspective. They conclude that interoceptive awareness and temporal orientation interact to maintain psychological and physiological stability.
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A single scoop of water from an Irish river has revealed evidence not only of Ireland's only frog species—as expected—but also signs of the dreaded B. dendrobatidis fungus, marking ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Scientists have taken a giant leap forward with the development of tiny microneedles designed to detect subtle but critical changes in how the liver and kidneys process therapeutic drugs. The experimental technology, under ...
Medical Xpress
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TikTok's algorithm did not treat Democrats and Republicans equally during the 2024 US presidential election. According to a paper published in Nature, its recommendation system showed a Republican-leaning skew in three states. ...
Political science
May 8, 2026
The deep ocean remains largely unexplored, despite containing a large portion of the living organisms and animals on Earth. Among the many creatures populating the deep-sea are so-called Cyclothone, also known as bristlemouth ...
Evolution
May 8, 2026
Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can tackle some tasks exceedingly well. These include computer vision models, systems that can ...
May 8, 2026
As climate change drives more frequent extreme heat and worsening air pollution, researchers are seeking better ways to understand how these exposures affect health in real time. A new pilot study led by researchers at The ...
Medical Xpress
May 8, 2026
A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
Astronomy
The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects—some dating back to the 1940s—fanning speculation over whether alien life exists.
Other
The four-foot-tall Emperor penguin of Antarctica may be the most iconic member of this unique family of birds, but 17 other species of penguins populate the Southern Hemisphere, many of them confined to isolated islands that ...
Evolution
The mysterious origin of an impressive cloud disturbance on Venus has now been revealed by a team including the University of Tokyo. Researchers used numerical models to show that an enormous 6,000-kilometer-wide atmospheric ...
Democrats suffered a major setback and Republicans continued to reshape voting maps their way in a frantic week of developments prompted by court rulings.
The Supreme Court of Virginia Friday nullified the results of a special election on April 21, where 1.6 million Virginians approved redistricting that Democrats hoped would win them four more House seats. In a 4-3 ruling, the court said the legislature followed the wrong process for putting the question, an amendment to the state constitution, on the ballot.
Meanwhile, Southern Republicans rushed to redraw their states' congressional voting maps after an April 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which weakened voting rights protections for minority communities.
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