Trusted TV doctors ‘deepfaked’ to promote health scams on social media

Credit: AI-generated image Some of the UK’s most recognizable TV doctors are increasingly being “deepfaked” in videos to sell scam products across social media, finds The BMJ today. Trusted names…

Archaeologists discover traces of Roman circus at Iruña-Veleia

Archaeologists from ARKIKUS have announced the discovery of a Roman circus at Iruña-Veleia, a former Roman town in Hispania, now located in the province of Álava, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.…

New Technique Shows Promise in Fighting Brain Cancer

Summary: Researchers developed a new method, burst sine wave electroporation (B-SWE), to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumor. B-SWE disrupts the blood-brain barrier more effectively than traditional methods, allowing cancer…

Archaeologists make new discoveries at Bodbury Ring hillfort

Bodbury Ring is a univallate hillfort, strategically located at the southern tip of Bodbury Hill in Shropshire, England. Hillforts in Britain are known from the Bronze Age, but the main…

A huge race is on to develop quantum technologies; the time to discuss risks is now

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The goal is to recognize “the importance of quantum science and…

Engineers build optical elements for the Coronagraph Instrument of the Roman Space Telescope

Artist’s impression of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The actively cooled primary mirror has a diameter of 2.4 metres. It is a copy of the primary mirror of the…

Entangled photons enable Raman spectroscopy

Signal spectrum from the high-speed camera for PBI molecules. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01492-4 ‘High-speed camera’ for molecules Certain molecular systems exhibit ultrafast processes, such as electron…

A new approach to accelerate the discovery of quantum materials

This image shows the cobalt defect fabricated by the study team. The green and yellow circles are tungsten and sulfur atoms that make up a 2D tungsten disulfide sample. The…

Physicists develop new theorems to describe the energy landscape formed when quantum particles gather together

Study finds irregular sleep patterns may lead to increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Getting consistent sleep could help stave off type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. A study led by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member…