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Fastest known Milky Way star offers new test of supermassive black hole's spin
Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its center. The star, named S301
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AI could lower the cost of designing more efficient airplane wings
AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation
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Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer
People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections
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How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleep
To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping neurons can improv
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5-year-old brain organoids can sense the passing of time
Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a sense of time g
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We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep
Two clusters of neurons in the mouse brain seem to create the drive to get some shut-eye, potentially hinting at a new target for sleep diso
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VR supports research into spaceflight-related mental health
As humanity gets closer to the possibility of long-term interplanetary travel, psychologists have started raising concerns about astronauts'
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Turning a quantum battery's environmental sensitivity into an advantage
Quantum batteries, devices that store energy by exploiting quantum mechanical phenomena, could, in principle, be charged faster and more eff
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Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost—to our brains
Imagine your team has been tasked with delivering a high-stakes policy paper under intense time pressure. Everyone turns to generative artif
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Is the laundry still damp, or just cold? Why your skin can't tell the difference
It's a cold winter afternoon, and you've just brought the laundry in. Suddenly, you pause. Are these clothes a bit damp?
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Search in strange quark sector reveals new particle possibilities
Despite science's best efforts to classify the vast menagerie of subatomic particles discovered over the past few decades, some exotic varie
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Concerns about the New World screwworm have put Texas pet adoptions on hold
Adoptions are on hold for thousands of dogs and cats in Texas, potentially putting the animals at risk of being euthanized, because of effor
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An echo of Einstein: An unexpected link between whale calls and special relativity
Standing on the sandy, windswept shores of Provincetown, Massachusetts, people may find themselves squinting at the horizon, waiting for a w
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Scientists give aircraft composite waste a second life
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a method to turn waste from the tough, lightweight composites use
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World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest
'Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future
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Reusing liquid pickle waste to produce omega-3 fatty acids
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are omega-3 fatty acids known to have beneficial effects and are popular as funct
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Quantum simulators gain quantitative error bars in 51-ion test
In the coming years, increasingly larger and more powerful quantum systems are expected to tackle problems that are difficult or impossible
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Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring
As they build their nests, many birds are known to interweave dried grasses and other materials with green plants, such as fresh leaves, gra
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New design method stabilizes human growth factor for potential therapeutic use
A new study published in the Biophysical Journal reports on the development of a stable, biologically active version of the human fibroblast
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Neutron capture experiment sheds light on ancient stardust
Niobium-94, an isotope of niobium with 41 protons and 53 neutrons, is a critical crossroads in the complex nuclear processes that forge heav
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Sea cucumber breeding clues could help rebuild populations depleted by overfishing
The reproductive life of sea cucumbers has come under the microscope as University of the Sunshine Coast researchers battle overfishing of t
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Volcano myths unravel, from 'smoke' plumes to Yellowstone catastrophe claims
Volcanoes emit smoke. Beneath a volcano lies a huge chamber filled with liquid magma. A series of earthquakes means an eruption is imminent.
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Are subsea oil and gas pipelines a previously unrecognized source of ocean microplastics?
Decommissioning pipelines used by the oil and gas industry could result in substantial quantities of microplastics being released into the U
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Study of behavior-related digital dieting apps finds different effects of persuasion-related features
The booming smartphone industry has spawned an enormous market in health-related mobile phone applications, with apps related to dieting mak
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