Category: Technology

Antidepressants linked to faster cognitive decline...

New research suggests that certain antidepressants can accelerate cognitive decline in people with dementia. At the same time, som...

Lunar Trailblazer blasts off to map water on the m...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims ...

New spatial mechanism for the coexistence of tree ...

The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This questio...

Biological organ ages predict disease risk decades...

Our organs age at different rates, and a blood test determining how much they've each aged could predict the risk of conditions li...

Comprehensive resource describes functions of more...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Resear...

Multiplexing entanglement in a quantum network

Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qub...

Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rap...

It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation...

Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wi...

A century of fire suppression, climate change, and drought has worsened wildfires in the Western U.S. While prescribed burns help ...

Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence ...

Some fuel lodges in the inner walls of fusion vess...

New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a...

How parenthood may help keep your brain young

Researchers find that parents show patterns of brain connectivity that oppose age-related changes.

AI generates playful, human-like games

A team of scientists has now created a computer model that can represent and generate human-like goals by learning from how people...

New low-cost challenger to quantum computer: Ising...

A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be...

Feeding anemone: Symbiote fish actively feed hosts...

A research team observing anemonefish in the field found they engage in interesting feeding behavior with their host sea anemones.

Researchers create the world's smallest shooting v...

A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This ...

Adsorptive regolith on Mars soaks up water, resear...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capab...

Morphing robot turns challenging terrain to its ad...

A bioinspired robot can change shape to alter its own physical properties in response to its environment, resulting in a robust an...

Infant mortality tied to concentration of lead in ...

In a new study, researchers used data on lead emissions in the air to estimate the effects of air lead concentration on infant mor...

A springtail-like jumping robot

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping he...

Young star clusters give birth to rogue planetary-...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of as...