Temperature of the prototype components during the first E-TEST campaign at CSL experiment (solid lines) and simulated curves from theoretical model (dotted lines). Credit: ULiège / CSL The Einstein telescope…
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Research shows older adults with a history of stroke at high risk of pandemic-induced depression
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new longitudinal study from the University of Toronto highlights the substantial mental health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults with a history of…
New system combines human, artificial intelligence to improve experimentation
The workflow of the human-AI collaborator system developed at ORNL to improve experimentation. Credit: Arpan Biswas and Rama Vasudevan/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Though artificial intelligence decreases human error in…
Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds
The fractional quantum Hall effect has generally been seen under very high magnetic fields, but MIT physicists have now observed it in simple graphene. In a five-layer graphene/ hexagonal boron…
Silicon and endophyte defences in tall fescue reduce feeding and weaken immunity of an insect herbivore. – Functional Ecologists
Ximena Cibils-Stewart completed her doctoral dissertation at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, and works as an adjunct scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria in…
Physicists achieve first demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor
by Anne J. Manning, Harvard Gazette Inside the chamber of the Quantinuum H2 quantum processor. Credit: Quantinuum Our physical, 3D world consists of just two types of particles: bosons, which…
Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test
For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed not long after the Big Bang, giving scientists their first…
Despite Cop28 pledge, France keeps farming fossil fuel subsidies
France has abandoned plans to phase out tax breaks on agricultural diesel in efforts to appease its increasingly disgruntled farmers At Cop28 last December, France’s former minister for the energy…
Your heart changes in size and shape with exercise – this can lead to heart problems for some athletes and gym rats
Exercise has long been recognized by clinicians, scientists and public health officials as an important way to maintain health throughout a person’s lifespan. It improves overall fitness, helps build strong…
What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality
Alaskapox, a virus in the same family as smallpox, cowpox and mpox, claimed its first fatality in January 2024 when an elderly Alaskan man died of the illness. The virus,…
