Why Human Culture Never Stops Evolving

Summary: A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but in its “open-endedness.” Unlike animal cultures that reach…

Childhood Stress Disrupts Attention, Sleep, and Dopamine Balance in Adults

Summary: New research links childhood adversity with later attention deficits, sleep disruptions, and specific dopamine imbalances in the brain. Focusing on critical developmental windows, scientists found that disrupted care early…

First practical application of viscous electron flow realizes terahertz photoconductivity in graphene

Researchers develop promising new genetic breast cancer model

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Michigan State University researcher’s new model for studying breast cancer could help scientists better understand why and where cancer metastasizes. Professor who teaches in the…

How climate change affects health

Pakistan’s second biggest city Lahore recently recorded air pollution at a level 40 times level deemed acceptable by the WHO. Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread…

50 countries warn UN of ransomware attacks on hospitals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization and some 50 countries issued a warning Friday at the United Nations about the rise of ransomware attacks against hospitals, with the…

NASA astronauts won’t say which one of them got sick after almost eight months in space

The SpaceX crew of the Dragon spacecraft, from left, cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick and mission specialist Jeanette Epps gather for a photo after arriving at…

China planning to build its own version of SpaceX’s Starship

SpaceX continues to be a font of inspiration for Chinese aerospace engineers. At least one Chinese company is already working to create its own version of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9,…

Trial finds exercise during cancer treatment reduces cardiovascular risk

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new randomized controlled trial out of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has found that combining structured exercise training with reductions in sitting time protects…

Wide-incident-angle wideband radio-wave absorbers boost 5G and beyond 5G applications

Fabricated radio-wave absorber and measurement setup (a) at 30 GHz and (b) at 150 GHz. Measurement results at 30 GHz and (d) at 150 GHz. Credit: Science Tokyo 5G wireless…