2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (677+ words) Lipid droplets in the kidneys may help cats maintain a consistent chemical “scent identity.” Scent marks can linger long after an animal has moved on, allowing urine and other chemical signals to carry information across both distance and time. Yet…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1070+ words) Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start. In some fusion energy systems, particles can reach temperatures hotter than the center of the Sun. The challenge is keeping that extreme plasma under…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (752+ words) MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to behave like transistors, making it possible to build living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto growth material in a Petri dish. In conventional electronics, transistors act as switches that control whether electrical current…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (348+ words) Physicists around the world remain deeply divided on key mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to quantum gravity. The standard cosmological model failed to gain majority support, and no leading theory dominated the survey results. The largest survey ever…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (902+ words) A provocative new paper suggests consciousness may not be unique to Earth and could arise in alien life forms far stranger than we can imagine. A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (490+ words) A metal surface that becomes more active as it changes could help green hydrogen electrolyzers run harder and longer. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an electrode that combines five metals in a high-entropy antiperovskite structure. Supported…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (566+ words) A self-resetting soft robot can repeatedly jump under infrared light, with simple design changes controlling how and where it moves. A teardrop-shaped soft robot developed at North Carolina State University can keep jumping for as long as infrared light shines…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (446+ words) 3D atomic imaging of advanced materials provides new insights into transitions such as liquids freezing into solids....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (325+ words) An international team using the JWST has found photographic evidence that brings astronomers closer to solving a long-standing mystery about black holes....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (651+ words) The finding could eventually enable the use of DNA packaging in cells for disease diagnosis and treatment. Doctors currently assess these biopsies by eye using a staining technique that is more than a century old. The new approach, described in…...