Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities

Adding more green space to a campus is a simple, cheap and healthy way to help millions of stressed and depressed college students

Stress on college students can be palpable, and it hits them from every direction: academic challenges, social pressures and financial burdens, all intermingled with their first taste of independence. It’s…

TESS reveals two rocky Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting nearby K-type star

‘A historic failure’: MIT management professor who falsely claimed Covid shots were ineffective and deadly appointed head of CDC vaccine oversight

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory group has long had a work group in place to review the latest COVID-19 vaccine science, including weighing the risks…

Positive results revealed from first prospective trial in heart failure due to Chagas disease

Credit: AI-generated image In patients with heart failure (HF) caused by Chagas disease, sacubitril/valsartan was superior to enalapril for the composite primary endpoint, predominantly driven by a significant reduction in…

Global inequalities found in cancer research funding

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Southampton examining worldwide variations in funding for cancer research say there’s a pressing need to invest more in lower income countries.…

Conjoined toad figurine among new discoveries at Vichama

Vichama is a 3,800-year-old agricultural and fishing settlement in the Végueta district of Huaura, Peru. Rising on a raised terrace just 1.5 kilometers from the coast, the site extends across…

Three reports released supporting Namibia’s green hydrogen ambitions

by Simone Angster, DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The GreeN-H2-Namibia project has published three new reports that together provide key insights for Namibia’s…

Snap-through effect helps engineers solve soft material motion trade-off

Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through…