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Climate projects face existential threat after Trump halts aid
The Trump administration’s attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries A new programme to boost the climate resilience…
Researchers uncover 1D-like spin behavior in a triangular molecular lattice, challenging traditional views
Credit: AI-generated image Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fascinating and mysterious states of matter that have intrigued scientists for decades. First proposed by Nobel laureate Philip Anderson in the 1970s,…
Will the Endangered Species Act survive Trump?
Now that Donald Trump has reassumed the presidency of the United States, scientists and legal scholars are bracing for his potential dismantling of a host of the country’s most pivotal…
Specialized sponge can suck up stormwater pollution
The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well as phosphate, and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead…
Gray matter study uncovers two neuroanatomically different OCD subtypes
A) Silhouette values for each number of subtypes. B) Gray matter morphological abnormalities of the identified subtypes. Credit: Translational Psychiatry (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41398-025-03226-5 Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental…
Generally, things really do seem better in the morning, large study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Generally, things really do seem better in the morning, with clear differences in self-reported mental health and well-being across the day, suggest the findings of a…
Hand axes found in Iraqi desert could date from 1.5 million-years-ago
In late 2024, archaeologists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) conducted a fieldwork study of the Iraqi Western Desert to assess the potential of preserving archaeological sites with Lower and…
Experimental drug shows promise in reversing memory loss for early Alzheimer’s patients
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function…
