An fMRI image with yellow areas showing increased activity. Credit: Wikipedia/ CC BY 3.0 Artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on large datasets are increasingly seen as the key to unlocking…
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Volvo Cars swings into loss on electric vehicles, tariffs
High costs for EV development and US tariffs are hurting Volvo’s bottom line. Volvo Cars announced on Thursday it had swung into loss in the second quarter, after it took…
Eye scan can reveal risk of having a heart attack or stroke
Credit: Cardiovascular Diabetology (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s12933-024-02564-w A simple digital photograph of the back of the eye can predict a major cardiovascular event—such as a heart attack or stroke—set to happen…
Roman bathing complex discovered in eastern Türkiye
A team of archaeologists from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have unearthed a 1,700-year-old bathing complex in the village of Elazığ, eastern Türkiye. Traces of Roman occupation were first…
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction
A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New…
Raising awareness of extreme indoor temperatures
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research from the University of Waterloo has made it possible to accurately track indoor temperatures to determine households with life-threatening conditions. While there is legislation in…
Study shows how electricity pricing is linked to greenhouse gas emissions
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst establishes a link between what U.S. households pay for electricity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power…
A newly discovered cell helps pythons poop out the bones of their prey
Burmese pythons and other carnivorous snakes are well-known for swallowing their prey whole. But what comes out the other end doesn’t resemble what went in. There’s not a bone to…
Material properties changed non-thermally using light and magnons
Setup for ultrafast nonlinear control of materials in the mid-infrared spectral range, research teams Leitenstorfer and Bossini, University of Konstanz. Credit: Gillian Kiliani Is it wizardry? Physicists at the University…
