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A new dual-gate tribotronic transistor array could help robots, prosthetics and wearable devices sense touch and nearby objects.
Hanyang University researchers built a compact electronic skin sensor that detects touch, pressure and proximity.
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Ohio State researchers found that low-intensity electric fields reduced tumor growth and lung spread in models of triple-negative breast cancer.
HealthWearable electric field therapy slows aggressive breast cancer, study findsJoseph Shavit
Lei Du and Tangyou Huang, Chalmers University of Technology.
DiscoveriesScientists find a way to run error-protected quantum operations 1,000 times fasterJoshua Shavit
Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions.
SpaceBefore MeerKAT, South Africa’s Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the starsJoseph Shavit
Captured within this image is the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A.
SpaceA cosmic giant 5,000 times the Milky Way’s mass emerges from the early UniverseJoseph Shavit
Hebrew University researchers found that tomato drought resilience may depend on when plants use water, not just how much.
Green ImpactTomato study finds a ‘Golden Hour’ that could help crops survive droughtJoshua Shavit
Museum bones holding tiny scraps of DNA were enough to rebuild two missing branches of the Galápagos tortoise family tree.
DiscoveriesTiny DNA fragments reveal two extinct Galápagos tortoise lineagesRebecca Shavit
A new model reveals how strongly Venus’s mysterious cloud absorber must block ultraviolet light, sharply narrowing possible candidates.
SpaceScientists identify a mysterious substance darkening Venus’s cloudsJoseph Shavit
Ancient Sulawesi teeth and arecoline residues suggest humans were habitually using psychoactive betel nuts up to 25,000 years ago.
Health25,000-year-old teeth may reveal the world’s earliest evidence of drug useJoshua Shavit
Gaia measurements show massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud moving apart, suggesting the Large Magellanic Cloud may be disrupting it.
SpaceThe Large Magellanic Cloud may be tearing its smaller neighbor apartJoseph Shavit
The lab of Robert Boyd, right, the William F. Krupke Distinguished Professor in Optics, has spent more than a decade refining the new imaging system, with contributions from PhD students including Yang Xu ’26 (PhD), center, and physics doctoral student Long Nguyen, left.
AINew optical shutter uses light and AI to see through dense fog and tissueJoshua Shavit
WashU Medicine researchers found that laser brain tumor therapy outcomes improve when tumors are smaller and more fully treated.
HealthMinimally invasive laser surgery may offer new hope for brain tumor patientsJoshua Shavit
Two experiments used entangled photons to demonstrate anonymous electronic voting without requiring a trusted central election authority.
DiscoveriesEntangled photons could make electronic voting truly anonymous and more secureShy Cohen
Nitrogen in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed at roughly 30 kelvins or below in the icy outskirts of another star system.
SpaceNitrogen in 3I/ATLAS reveals an extremely cold birthplace beyond the solar systemJoseph Shavit
Cosmic rays may erode icy interstellar objects far faster than expected, suggesting ‘Oumuamua could once have been much larger.
SpaceA hidden cosmic filter may decide which interstellar objects reach our solar systemJoseph Shavit
Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was discovered.
DiscoveriesA six-inch fossil just rewrote a major chapter of mammal evolutionJoshua Shavit
Researchers have uncovered the full nicotine production pathway in tobacco plants, opening new possibilities for safer medicines and biotechnology.
DiscoveriesScientists learn how tobacco plants make nicotine: could lead to new low-nicotine strainsRebecca Shavit