An Australian mosquito species knows the best spot to drink its bloody meals: a frog’s nostril. The bloodsuckers are surprisingly selective when dining on frogs, seemingly picking no other place…
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The formation of an excitonic Mott insulator state in a moiré superlattice
Credit: Lian et al. When a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole in a pair remain bound together following excitation by light, they produce states known as excitons.…
Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month − an expert on substance use unpacks the grim numbers with 3 charts
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise. Overdoses claimed more than 112,000 American lives from May 2022 to May 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control…
Australian Scientists Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever Discovered
In a tiny fraction of a second the radio burst released the equivalent of our Sun’s total emission over 30 years. A new generation of radio telescopes will allow us…
Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere—and not slowing down
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “Get Ready with Me”—to go on a date, go to work or … get fired? “Get Ready with Me” videos are everywhere these days, and they’re…
Incoming New Zealand govt to abandon anti-smoking laws
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New Zealand’s incoming conservative government will jettison world-leading measures to stub out smoking, new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed Monday, in a move described by health…
China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
A man carriers a child walk out from a crowded holding room of a children’s hospital in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2023. A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that…
Creating artistic collages using reinforcement learning
The “Color Face” made of newspapers, source image from pixabay.com/photos/girl-face-colorful-colors-artistic-2696947 . Credit: Dai et al. Researchers at Seoul National University have recently tried to train an artificial intelligence (AI) agent…
Societal polarization regarding vaccinations found to be distorting accuracy of people’s recall of pandemic
Biased recall of pandemic perceptions and behaviors in study 1. Results of a linear regression predicting the individual recall of past perceptions on the basis of actual past ratings (x…
