Digital monitoring system can make concrete work more reliable, safer and economical

Credit: Life Of Pix from Pexels Concreting mistakes can be expensive. Concrete poured too quickly often leads to a lack of color uniformity, irregularities in the structure and uneven surfaces.…

How Decision-Making Improves with Age

Summary: Adolescents are known for making less optimal, noisy decisions, but a recent study reveals that these tendencies decrease with age and are linked to improvements in complex decision-making skills.…

How the aurora borealis captivated 18th-century minds

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, sparking amazement and fascination. Social media…

Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system’s planets and moons grew

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three grains…

Theoretical model explains the anomalous properties of water in extreme conditions

A proposed experiment to test whether gravity behaves as a quantum entity when measured

Quantum computing researchers develop an 8-photon qubit chip

Package Image & Conceptual Chart of a Recon Photonics 4-Qubit Chip. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI) A group of South Korean researchers has successfully developed an integrated quantum circuit…

Growth-mortality trade-off in tropical tree seedlings is determined by stem elongation and soil fertility. – Functional Ecologists

In this new post Caicai Zhang, from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research at Dali University, shares insights from her recently…

Smart Social Media Use Reduces Teen Stress

Summary: How young people use social media impacts their mental health more than how much time they spend on it. Researchers found that reducing harmful comparisons and fostering meaningful connections…

Stray DNA is all around us. It could revolutionize conservation

On a warm, sunny day in April, biologists David Duffy and Jessica Farrell prepare to motor down the Matanzas River on a small boat to catalog the area’s aquatic life.…