Smartphone tests could accelerate drug development for Huntington’s disease

Yearly change (95% CI) on the HDDMS, cUHDRS, and cUHDRS components by CAG category. Credit: Brain (2025). DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaf127 A series of digital tests carried out via a smartphone app…

Unprecedented Roman discovery in Ireland

Archaeologists have made an unprecedented Roman discovery during excavations at Drumanagh in north Dublin. Located on a coastal headland, Drumanagh is an Iron Age promontory fort with trace evidence of…

The fusion of AI and robotics for dynamic environments

Architecture of the grasp post propagation algorithm, with blue and red points representing grasps before and after processing, respectively. The right part visualizes the grasp parameter matrices before and after…

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air

Physicists set new world record for qubit operation accuracy

A rendering of the Oxford University team’s ion trap chip. Credit: Dr. Jochen Wolf and Dr. Tom Harty. Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark…

Giving doctors an AI-powered head start on skin cancer

Longitudinal dermoscopic image-based lesion change detection using PanDerm. Credit: Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03747-y Detection of melanoma and a range of other skin diseases will be faster and more accurate…

Amazon to spend $20B on data centers in Pennsylvania, including one next to a nuclear power plant

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2024. Credit: AP…

Exquisite marble sarcophagus unearthed near Caesarea

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), working on behalf of the Caesarea Development Corporation, have unearthed an exquisitely sculptured marble sarcophagus near the coastal city of Caesarea, Israel. According…

Sleep Quality Shapes Jealousy in Insecure Relationships

Summary: A new study reveals that poor sleep quality is linked to increased jealousy in people with high relationship anxiety. Anxious attachment, marked by insecurity and low self-esteem in relationships,…

There’s an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time, could we ever use it?

There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for anything useful? The idea of vacuum energy comes…