Too big to be planets but too small to be stars, distant brown dwarfs are a key ingredient for understanding the history of the Milky Way. These elusive objects have…
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Research shows young infants use their mother’s scent to perceive faces
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humans see the world through the five senses, but how and when the ability to integrate across the senses arises is debated. Research shows that humans…
Nearest millisecond pulsar has radius of 11.4 kilometers and is 1.4x as heavy as the sun
The nearest millisecond pulsar, PSR J0437-4715, has a radius of 11.4 kilometers and a mass 1.4 times that of the Sun. This is the result of precision measurements made by…
Smaller than microplastics? Nanoplastics are too small to see yet may seriously impact our environment and health
It’s become common to read that microplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food…
Since 2018, data protection laws have reduced security breaches but affected firms’ value
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The introduction of new data protection rules significantly reduced breaches by firms but negatively impacted their market value, according to new research by the University of…
Improving HIV treatment in children and adolescents, the right way
Blood samples from patients for viral load and HIV resistance testing. Credit: Christian Heuss, SolidarMed Globally, around 2.6 million children and adolescents are currently living with HIV, the majority of…
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…
