How electric cars and heat pumps can help Switzerland implement its energy strategy

According to a new report, heat pumps and electric cars could act as key flexibility providers for the Swiss electricity system in the future. Credit: Image generated with AI: Lea…

Timely home repairs are needed for good health in remote Aboriginal communities

by Stephanie Enkel, Asha Bowen, Hannah M.M. Thomas, Rachel Burgess, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For people living in metro areas, a broken hot water system or washing machine…

Secrets of the “Band of Holes” revealed

A groundbreaking study published in Antiquity has shed new light on the purpose of the enigmatic site known as the “Band of Holes” on Monte Sierpe in southern Peru. The…

Nonsurgical treatment shows promise for targeted seizure control

(Left) Brain section showing targeted gene delivery to the ventral hippocampus, precisely guided by focused ultrasound. (Right) Brain section demonstrating high spatial resolution gene expression achieved across the entire bilateral…

How large language models encode theory-of-mind

How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds

Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for…

Giving Gemini its due: ‘Apollo 13’ author Jeffrey Kluger honors ‘forgotten’ NASA program with new book (exclusive interview)

NASA’s 10 crewed Project Gemini flights, which launched in 1965 and 1966, were instrumental in delivering the knowledge and testing that would lead to landing astronauts on the moon in…

Porous separators boost efficiency of electrolyzers for carbon monoxide reduction

Once-weekly eloralintide leads to 20% weight loss in Phase II trial

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A multicenter team including Endeavor Health and Eli Lilly found that once-weekly eloralintide produced dose-dependent weight loss up to 20% over 48 weeks in adults with…

On-chip cryptographic protocol lets quantum computers self-verify results amid hardware noise

The Quantinuum H1 Quantum Processing Unit, used in the recent study. Credit: Quantinuum. Quantum computers, machines that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some optimization…