Scientists have shown that sunlight can be used to create quantum entanglement, a surprising advance that could eventually help make quantum technologies more energy efficient. Quantum entanglement is a strange phenomenon in which two particles become connected so strongly that their properties remain linked, even when they are separated. It is an important part of […]

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Scientists have developed a new 3D printing technique that can create soft materials programmed to either stretch or shrink when heated. The advance could eventually lead to more capable soft robots, artificial muscles, wearable devices and medical tools that change shape inside the body. The research was led by Professor Suk-kyun Ahn of Pusan National […]

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Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury – as the rise of artificial intelligence has reminded us. The human brain is no exception. Comprising roughly 2% of the body weight, it uses one fifth the body’s energy in the resting state – compared with less than half of this in non-human primates. A five-year-old child devotes […]

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SIM cards are normally trusted parts of our phones and other connected devices. But new research shows that if a SIM card is malicious or compromised, it could become a surprisingly powerful tool for attacking the device that contains it. Researchers from the University of Birmingham, working with cybersecurity company Fuzzware, investigated how hostile SIM […]

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A rare meteorite from Mars is giving scientists a new look at a mysterious period in the Red Planet’s history. Researchers at Boston College have found that the rock formed about 1.27 billion years ago and may have come from a part of Mars’s deep interior that remained largely unchanged for billions of years. The […]

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Keeping the bladder has long been one of the biggest challenges for people whose high-risk bladder cancer returns after standard treatment. For many years, removing the bladder has been the safest option because it greatly reduces the chance of the cancer spreading. However, the surgery can permanently affect daily living, making the search for effective […]

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People with type 2 diabetes are much more likely to develop heart disease than those without diabetes. High blood sugar can damage blood vessels over time, increasing the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure. Even when blood sugar is controlled, many patients remain at high risk of serious heart problems, so researchers continue […]

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Many weight-loss plans ask people to count calories, measure portions, or deliberately eat less. A new clinical study suggests there may be another approach: changing the kinds of foods on the plate so that people can eat satisfying amounts while naturally taking in fewer calories. The research found that adults with overweight who followed a […]

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Depression and suicidal thoughts are usually identified through conversations, questionnaires and a clinician’s judgment. These methods are essential, but researchers at the University of Southern California are exploring whether signals from the body could provide doctors with another source of information. The work is part of a research project called PRECOG, which began in June […]

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Tanya Chapman Griffin was coughing so often that she bought jumbo bags of extra-strong menthol cough drops to quell the nearly constant tickle in her throat. “It must be that Saharan dust storm,” Tanya would tell people, referring to the massive dust plume that travels across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the southern United […]

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For about 40 years, physicists have puzzled over a strange problem: What happens when an electrically charged particle encounters a hypothetical magnetic monopole? Some calculations suggested that the outgoing particle simply disappears from the theory. Now, researchers from Ghent University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford may have found an answer. Their […]

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A small dinosaur bone discovered in Fukushima Prefecture more than 25 years ago is giving scientists new clues about the variety of plant-eating dinosaurs that once lived along the ancient coast of Japan. The fossil belonged to an iguanodontian, a large and diverse group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic through the […]

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For many people living in Orange County, California, the American dream is starting to feel increasingly out of reach, especially when it comes to owning a home and raising a family. A new poll from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) found that residents are evenly divided over whether the American dream is still possible […]

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Carbon dioxide is best known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, but scientists are increasingly exploring ways to turn it into something useful. A new study shows how sunlight and an unusual material called black silicon could help convert carbon dioxide into methane, the main component of natural gas. Researchers at National […]

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Astronomers have discovered an enormous stream of gas flowing toward a young system of three stars, potentially explaining why its planet-forming disks are strangely tilted. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers observed a gas streamer stretching about one trillion miles, or 0.2 light-years, toward the young triple-star system GW Orionis. The findings, published […]

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Some stick insects have reproduced without sex for around one million years, yet they still carry a fully functioning genetic system associated with sexual reproduction, according to surprising new research. The discovery challenges a common assumption about evolution: that biological systems that are no longer useful will gradually break down or disappear. The research, led […]

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After nearly two decades of observations, astronomers have discovered that a distant blazar behaves in ways that leading theories struggle to explain. Instead of solving the mystery of these powerful cosmic objects, the unusually long study has raised new questions about what is happening around their supermassive black holes. Blazars are active galaxies with enormous […]

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A week and a half after giving birth to her second daughter, Amy Mazur-Hession began feeling back pain. At first, she attributed the pain to the epidural she received during labor. “As the day went on, my hands started to turn really white and I didn’t feel right,” she said. “I thought maybe I was […]

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With 10 minutes left in his regular 6 a.m. fitness class, Kyle Hartley paused his rowing workout to grab a drink of water. He took a few gulps, sat down, then collapsed onto a classmate on a neighboring machine. He wasn’t breathing. His heart had stopped. Someone called 911. The class trainer, Juli Mosnes, and […]

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Medicines such as GLP-1 receptor agonists can help people with type 2 diabetes lose substantial amounts of weight, but doctors have questioned what that weight loss might mean for aging bones. A large UCLA Health study now offers some reassuring evidence. Instead of seeing more serious fractures, researchers found fewer among patients who started GLP-1 […]

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