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…

Snap-through effect helps engineers solve soft material motion trade-off

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…

Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation

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…

‘We’ve known it’s been coming for a while’: Inside the decision to eliminate the UK Space Agency

The U.K. government’s announcement to absorb the nation’s 15-year-old space agency into a recently established government department may sound shocking to some, but it came as no surprise to insiders.…