Early Imaginative Play Predicts Better Mental Health

Summary: Toddlers who excel at pretend play are significantly less likely to experience emotional and behavioral difficulties by the time they reach primary school. A major longitudinal study tracked over…

Gold jewellery hoard discovered at ancient Kolona site on Aegina

Excavations at Kolona have brought to light a group of gold objects dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The site lies on the Greek island of Aegina, near the modern…

From ‘Starfield’ to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality

NASA’s Artemis program is the space agency’s plan for returning humanity to our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon. This time, though, the idea isn’t just brief contact and exploratory surveys,…

Physicists Solve Riddle That Has Puzzled Scientists for Decades

Newswise — An international team of physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding something that has puzzled scientists for decades: the discrepancy between experimental measurements and theoretical predictions of magnetic…

Rotavirus cases in children are rising – but a highly effective vaccine has slashed hospitalizations from the virus by 80% in 2 decades

Rotavirus is a highly contagious virus that spreads easily and can make babies and young children very sick. This year, doctors have been seeing more cases earlier in the season…

HEPA air purifiers may boost brain power in adults over 40 – new research

Using an in-home HEPA purifier for one month spurs a small but significant improvement in brain function in adults age 40 and older. That’s the result of a new study…

Pooja Radhakrishnan | Game over: Conflict resolution through strategic growth in an invertebrate – Functional Ecologists

In this week’s blog post, we’re climbing the ranks to understand strategic growth in invertebrates! Discussing their paper: “Game over: Conflict resolution through strategic growth in an invertebrate”, author Pooja…

Artificial Intelligence Comes to Particle Detectors Through NEUROPix

BYLINE: Galen Fader Newswise — Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing AI-enabled pixel detectors that can analyze particle-collision data directly at the source. The approach could help particle-physics…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory, is finally complete

GREENBELT, Md. — On Tuesday (April 21) here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, I watched as scientists stood proudly around a metal contraption with towering orange solar panels and…

Sweat bees turn a greenish color in muggy weather

When the weather gets muggy, iridescent bees shift their metallic hue. The insects are a rich blue-green when ambient humidity is low. But as the amount of moisture in the…