Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Providing radiotherapy after surgery could prevent breast cancer from returning in the same place for up to 10 years, a long-term study suggests. This protective effect…
Author: ID
Child Signals: Vocal Cues Shape Adult Perceptions
Summary: Human children depend on caregivers for extended periods, employing complex vocal and cognitive cues to elicit adult attention and care. Recent research shows that adults prioritize vocal cues when…
Experts warn of AI-powered autonomous weapon risks
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However,…
Painted Scylla statues found in ancient Laodicea
Excavations in ancient Laodicea have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues. Laodicea was an Ancient Greek city on the river Lycus, located in the present-day Denizli Province, Turkey.…
X-ray imagery of vibrating diamond opens avenues for quantum sensing
Results of mechanical Rabi measurements. Credit: Physical Review Applied (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.024016 The APS’s high-resolution images enabled the team to measure the atoms’ movement near the diamond’s NV centers to…
Playing a game to understand the human microbiome
The picnic food choices affect the microbiome. Credit: ISDS—TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have published a video game about the health effects of the microbiome and what impact our…
Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s recent announcement on Twitter that “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year” suggests that robots…
Image: Doomed star Eta Carinae
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when—it may be next year, it may be 1 million…
Renewable-energy carbon credits rejected by high-integrity scheme
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market decided existing renewables methodologies don’t do enough to prove their emissions reductions are additional Carbon credits generated from renewable energy projects have…
NASA moon probe plays laser tag with Japanese lunar lander
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on…
