Models predict severity of pneumonia in kids to help guide treatment

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children, based on evidence from a study performed in 73 emergency departments…

Brain scans reveal what happens in the mind when insight strikes

Examples of the hidden picture puzzles in the black/white images on the lower panel; corresponding real-world pictures on the upper panel. Credit: Maxi Becker et al Have you ever been…

African figurines found in Israel reveal unexpected cultural connections

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Cologne University have made an unexpected discovery in Israel’s Negev Desert: carved figurines with apparent African origins. The figurines were uncovered during excavations…

Scalable, low-maintenance design recycles heat for a steady supply of drinking water off-grid

A new neural network paradigm

A new study provides insights into cleaning up noise in quantum entanglement

Researchers found that no universal entanglement purification protocol is guaranteed to improve fidelity of entangled states in all possible quantum systems. Credit: Zhong Lab Quantum entanglement—a connection between particles that…

This exquisite Archaeopteryx fossil reveals how flight took off in birds

An exceptionally preserved specimen of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx offers the most detailed window yet into the evolution of flight, researchers report online May 14 in Nature. The remarkable preservation…

New insights into black hole scattering and gravitational waves unveiled

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe’s most extreme events: the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. This…

Meta faces row over plan to use European data for AI

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Vienna-based privacy campaign group said Wednesday it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, after the tech giant announced plans to train its artificial intelligence…

RSV vaccines and nirsevimab tied to reduced RSV-linked hospitalization

Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination and nirsevimab were associated with a reduction in RSV-associated hospitalization rates among infants aged 0 to 7 months during the 2024–2025 RSV season, the…