Flowering plants may have a secret power for knowing when to lure pollinators. They could act as antennas for bees’ electrical signals and transmit those signals through the soil, biophysicist…
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New technique lets scientists create resistance-free electron channels
Scanning tunneling microscopy image of a chiral interface state wavefunction (bright stripe) in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator made from twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene. Credit: Canxun Zhang/Berkeley Lab An international research…
More patients are losing their doctors—and trust in the primary care system
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad…
AI will not revolutionize business management but it could make it worse
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It is no exaggeration to say that the democratization of new forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini/Bard (Google) and Copilot (Microsoft), is…
Here’s what it was like
Credit: CC0 Public Domain At 35,000 feet over the U.S. the air was thick with anticipation and excited chatter as everyone pulled out their phones hoping to get a photo.…
Family caregivers can help shape the outcomes for their loved ones – an ICU nurse explains their vital role
The floor nurse had just told me that my new patient – let’s call her Marie – would not stop screaming. Marie landed in the intensive care unit where I…
NASA’s JWST probes an extreme starburst galaxy
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to produce the highest-resolution image of spectacular exploding stars ever seen. The Messier 82 (M82) galaxy, located…
Study shows renewable energy could partially replace diesel fuel to power instruments, provide heat at South Pole
The arrangement of solar panel arrays sketched out in the study. The panels are aligned to catch sunlight along the horizon at virtually any time of day during austral summer.…
Heart disease and depression may be genetically linked by inflammation
Overall schematic of the study. Credit: Nature Mental Health (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44220-024-00219-z Coronary artery disease and major depression may be genetically linked via inflammatory pathways to an increased risk for…
More premature babies born following Swedish parental leave policy
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The introduction of a policy protecting parental leave benefits in Sweden in 1980 had unintended consequences on child health. The policy led to an increase in…
