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A new study shows stagecoach travel in early England was crowded, uncomfortable, and often caused motion sickness.
New research reveals early stagecoach travelers suffered motion sickness, discomfort, and crowded conditions.
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RMIT researchers used high-frequency sound waves to create crystal coatings on living plant leaves without heat or damage.
Green ImpactScientists use sound waves to create protective crystal coatings on cropsRebecca Shavit
A new study finds tomato-soy juice may lower key inflammation markers, offering promise as a simple diet-based health intervention.
HealthTomato-soy juice study shows promise in reducing inflammationHannah Shavit-Weiner
Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory researchers have experience synthesizing alloys with magnetic properties.
AIScientists use AI to search for the next generation of ultra-powerful magnetsShy Cohen
Artistic impression of a superconducting quantum heat engine. Aalto University researchers built the first cyclic quantum heat engine in a superconducting circuit, extracting real work from heat in a single qubit near absolute zero.
InnovationsWorld’s first superconducting quantum heat engine looks to transform quantum computingJoseph Shavit
A ribozyme found by accident selectively repairs broken RNA, suggesting early life could have preserved its genetic code without any proteins.
HealthNo proteins required: Newly discovered enzyme can hunt and mend broken RNAMac Oliveau
Composite image from the Galactic Center. Green and yellow: 8 µm and 24 µm emission observed with Spitzer (Churchwell et al. 2009; Carey et al. 2009). Red: 20 cm emission imaged with MeerKAT (Heywood et al. 2019, 2022) and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT; Law et al. 2008).
SpaceSugar found in interstellar space may have seeded life on EarthJoshua Shavit
MIT-led physicists built a model to search for dark matter traces in gravitational waves. One black hole merger event, GW190728, fits the pattern of a collision inside a dense scalar cloud.
SpaceStrange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holesJoseph Shavit
Researchers built a nanoscale device that acts like a neuron, processing light signals with high efficiency. (CREDIT: Nanoscale)
HealthNew light-sensing device acts like a neuron in the human brainRebecca Shavit
Researchers reveal that hair follicle patterns emerge from simple cell interactions, offering new insight into development.
DiscoveriesScientists discover how natural hair patterns form without a blueprintMac Oliveau
A sign-changing dark energy model moves Hubble estimates closer, but rigorous tests show the cosmological tension remains.
SpaceDark energy reversal cannot close the universe’s expansion gap
The aerial-aquatic robot can swim underwater, then flap out of the water to continue flying through air, much like diving birds.
InnovationsBird-inspired robot swims, plunges, and flies using flapping wingsJoseph Shavit
Researchers developed an AI test that predicts breast cancer recurrence faster and more affordably than current methods.
HealthNew AI tool predicts breast cancer recurrence fasterShy Cohen
CPT symmetry states that the laws of physics stay the same when electric charge, spatial coordinates, and the direction of time are all reversed simultaneously.
SpaceMirror universe where time runs backwards could help explain dark matter, antimatter and neutrinosJoseph Shavit
New research finds some small primates face birth canal constraints as severe as, or greater than, those seen in humans.
HealthNew study challenges a long-held assumption about human childbirthMac Oliveau
Metabolic differences may explain why clams survived the Great Dying while brachiopods and sea lilies suffered devastating losses.
DiscoveriesScientists finally confirm the cause of Earth’s greatest mass extinctionJoseph Shavit
Scientists find Earth stayed cooler than expected for millions of years, highlighting risks of modern climate change.
Green ImpactEarth may be hotter today than at any time in the last 540 million yearsJoshua Shavit