Robotic system developed to treat life-threatening tension pneumothorax remotely

Researcher Carolin Müller from TUM Klinikum presents a new robotic module developed for cases of tension pneumothorax. Credit: Technical University Munich Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have…

Your smartwatch might know you’re sick before you do—and it might help stop pandemics

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Smartwatch features that measure heart rates, oxygen levels, fitness levels and sleep quality have been marketed as valuable tools for people who are eager to monitor…

Common pregnancy complications may be signals of future stroke risk

Credit: Leah Newhouse from Pexels Women who experience complications during pregnancy face a higher risk of stroke in the following decades, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.…

Zoning Out or Zoning In? How Aimless Wandering Trains the Brain

Summary: New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in tens of thousands of neurons, scientists found that the visual cortex…

New framework reduces memory usage and boosts energy efficiency for large-scale AI graph analysis

BingoCGN employs cross-partition message quantization to summarize inter-partition message flow, which eliminates the need for irregular off-chip memory access and utilizes a fine-grained structured strong lottery theory-based training algorithm to…

Near-perfect defects in 2D material could serve as quantum bits

Mammoth bones uncovered during road construction works

The Construction of the S17 Piaski–Hrebenne highway near the Arabunie village in Zamość County has revealed the remains of what is believed to be either a woolly mammoth or a…

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more

ESA’s Biomass is the first satellite to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, this novel radar is able to penetrate…

How do I get started in the gym lifting weights?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain So you’ve never been to a gym and are keen to start, but something’s holding you back. Perhaps you don’t know what to actually do in…

‘Thermoelectric permanent magnet’ achieves record power density for energy harvesting

Magnetic and analytical transverse thermoelectric properties of MCM. Credit: Energy & Environmental Science (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04845H The research group developed a “thermoelectric permanent magnet” with an artificially tilted multilayer structure…