Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new method improving the accuracy of interpreting blood pressure measurements taken at the ankle could be crucial for people who cannot have their arm blood…
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Prolonged use of desogestrel pill linked to small increased brain tumor risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Taking the progestogen-only contraceptive pill desogestrel continuously for more than five years is associated with a small increased risk of developing a type of brain tumor…
How Serotonin Circuits Learn from Motion to Regulate Behavior
Summary: Scientists have uncovered how serotonergic neurons in larval zebrafish process visual information tied to movement to determine when and how much serotonin to release. This neuromodulator fine-tunes the fish’s…
Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
SEM images of features on the surface of 74001 black glass beads. Credit: Icarus (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116607 The study combined a variety of techniques—atom probe tomography, scanning electron microscopy, transmission…
Aerial photographs indicate an enormous Avar-Era cemetery
An analysis of aerial photographs has led to the discovery of a previously unknown Avar-era cemetery on the outskirts of Tatabánya, Hungary. The site was first identified in April 2025…
Quantum navigation device uses atoms to measure acceleration in 3D
Kendall Mehling, left, and Catie LeDesma, right, with a new kind of atom “interferometer” on the CU Boulder campus. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder In a new study, physicists at the…
Over half of countries push for plastic production cuts in UN pact
Ninety-five countries across continents have called for the adoption of an “ambitious” UN pact to tackle plastic pollution that includes targets to reduce plastic production – a growing source of…
First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS speak in real time
The participant is enrolled in the BrainGate2 clinical trial at UC Davis Health. His ability to communicate through a computer has been made possible with an investigational brain-computer interface (BCI).…
Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated ‘mask’
Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the middle panel showing a map of the different kinds of damage present;…
