Isotropic MOF coating reduces side reactions to boost stability of solid-state Na batteries

An illustration summarizing the LSV–GCMS technique. Credit: Liu et al. (Nature Energy, 2025). In recent years, energy engineers have been trying to design new reliable batteries that can store more…

Europe must nurse itself after US aid cuts: WHO director

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drastic aid cuts, notably by the United States, have made it vital for Europe to better manage health resources, the director of WHO Europe told AFP.…

Viewpoint: Organic fantasies—Why rejecting industrial agriculture for regenerative farming would be a big mistake for food security and sustainability

Last year, Scientific American published a short but ominous article titled “Only 60 Years Left of Farming if Soil Degradation Continues.” Similar claims had appeared in the Guardian in 2019…

How to ensure youth, parents, educators and tech companies are on the same page on AI

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life. It’s in our phones, schools and homes. For young people, AI shapes how they learn, connect and express…

HIV prevention jab approved for use in England and Wales. Here’s how it works

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first ever injectable drug that can prevent HIV has been approved for use in England and Wales. The drug, cabotegravir, would benefit an estimated 1,000…

Microscopic ‘ocean’ on a chip reveals new nonlinear wave behavior

Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device. The zoom-in…

Traces of prehistoric tombs and settlements excavated on Northern Herm

Herm is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The first historical record of settlement on Herm dates…

Gluten sensitivity linked to gut–brain interaction, not gluten itself, study finds

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study has revealed that gluten sensitivity, which affects approximately 10% of the global population, is not actually about gluten but part of the way the…

Extent of AI-created content in American news and opinion pages revealed

Researchers from University of Maryland, using AI detection from Pangram, found that more than 9% of all news coverage contained AI-generated text. The study found that AI-use on the news…

Astronomers expose CO-dark molecular gas, previously invisible to telescopes