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.…
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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…
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…
Shrews Shrink and Regrow Brains, Offering Clues for Human Diseases
Summary: Scientists used non-invasive MRI to study shrews that seasonally shrink and regrow their brains, uncovering water loss as the key driver of this rare phenomenon. Despite losing about nine…
Depression Disrupts Learning to Avoid Unpleasant Events
Summary: Depression specifically impairs the ability to learn how to actively avoid unpleasant events, though it does not affect avoidance behavior once learned. Researchers tested 465 participants across a range…
Climate Home News seeks pitches on energy transition minerals
Climate Home News is seeking pitches on the trends shaping the extraction, processing and governance of key raw materials for the energy transition, including lithium, nickel, copper and rare earths.…
AI co-pilot boosts noninvasive brain-computer interface by interpreting user intent
Using the AI-BCI system, a participant successfully completed the “pick-and-place” task moving four blocks with the assistance of AI and a robotic arm. Credit: Johannes Lee, Jonathan Kao, Neural Engineering…
