Amazon Web Services data center is visible on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. Credit: AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular…
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Unparalleled Bronze Age discovery
Detectorists from the Kociewskie Poszukiwacze Association have discovered a perfectly preserved Bronze Age bracelet, described by experts as unparalleled. The bracelet was discovered in the forests of the Kociewie region…
Genomics-guided tool helps guide immunotherapy choices for advanced kidney cancers
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cancer Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2025.07.010 A study led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center helps explain why a rare and hyper-aggressive subtype of kidney cancer is susceptible…
When Music Falls Flat: Why Some Brains Don’t Enjoy Music
Summary: Some people feel absolutely nothing when listening to music—and not because of bad taste. A rare condition called specific musical anhedonia involves a disconnect between the brain’s auditory and…
Music May Help Kids Understand Emotions, Even Without Empathy
Summary: Music plays a powerful role in how we perceive and express emotion—and a new study finds that even very young children can match emotions in music to facial expressions.…
Did you walk or cycle to school as a child? Your children are likely to follow in your footsteps
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you used physically active modes of commuting to school, your children are likely to do the same. A study published in the European Journal of…
Pioneer spirit drives Swiss solar-powered plane altitude attempt
Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan waved to friends and family prior to take-off. Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan on Friday made his first attempt of the year at setting a new aviation…
Quantum technologies—’Standards currently offer a greater chance of success than regulation,’ says researcher
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and…
How Uber steers its drivers toward better performance
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows that the app’s ratings and incentive system has made drivers in Chicago as safe and reliable as taxi drivers. The findings suggest regulators…
Towards better earthquake risk assessment with machine learning and geological survey data
By including geographic coordinates, elevation, and stratigraphic information as input variables, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology have compared three different ML algorithms (RF, ANN, and SVM) for predicting the…
