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A Danish study links regular coffee drinking to lower small-intestinal pH and greater bacterial richness in stool.
A swallowable sensor helped researchers study how regular coffee drinking relates to acidity and movement inside the gut.
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Sit-stand desk users logged 43 more minutes of daily computer activity in a study of 10,145 employees. The study did not measure output.
DiscoveriesThis small change at work significantly improves productivityJoseph Shavit
An artist’s rendering shows a proposed atmospheric probe approaching Uranus, with Neptune at right. A future probe could measure argon isotopes to help distinguish gas inherited during planet formation from gas produced by radioactive decay in buried rock.
SpaceAncient argon may hide clues to the rocky interiors of Uranus and NeptuneJoseph Shavit
Conceptual architecture of freespace twistronics and optical supertopologies.
DiscoveriesScientists twist laser light into patterns that can repair themselvesShy Cohen
An artist’s rendering shows a wheeled rover crossing the floor of Valles Marineris, a walking robot approaching a cave and a scout flying overhead. Germany’s VaMEx project is developing technology that could help robots like these explore Mars together.
SpaceA robot swarm could explore Mars by air, on foot and undergroundJoseph Shavit
An artist’s reconstruction shows a child and an adult shaping a clay figurine at a Natufian settlement. Overlapping fingerprints on a figure found at Eynan-Mallaha suggest that a child and an older maker handled the same piece while the clay was still soft.
DiscoveriesAncient fingerprints suggest children helped make clay figurines 15,000 years agoJoshua Shavit
In this illustration, scientists and visitors discuss a prism demonstration at a public science event. In a recent survey, both groups saw curiosity as central to science, but differed on the roles of creativity and established methods.
DiscoveriesScientists and the general public define science very differentlyJoshua Shavit
In this reconstruction, a fishmonger displays freshwater perch and pike near a medieval Danish friary. Carbon from freshwater fish can make human bones appear centuries older in radiocarbon dating.
DiscoveriesFreshwater fish can make human bones appear centuries olderJoshua Shavit
Fossilized teeth from giant prehistoric rodents discovered in Thailand’s Krabi Province, including the newly identified Yakamys sirindhornae, provide new clues about the early evolution and diversity of large-bodied rodents in Southeast Asia.
DiscoveriesPaleontologists discover a giant rodent that lived in Thailand 34 million years agoRebecca Shavit
Waterloo researchers used a boiling drop to cool a simulated chip hotspot by 17°C in 15 seconds in a hybrid immersion cooling test.
AIHybrid cooling system could make AI data centers cheaper and more efficientShy Cohen
Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744), a massive galaxy cluster whose gravitational pull magnifies light from distant objects, including Abell2744-QSO1, an unusually compact and distant source from the early universe.
SpaceLittle red dots may hold the secret to the universe’s first black holesJoseph Shavit
Concept art for how a NOM4D-inspired device might autonomously construct a truss structure in space.
SpaceCaltech ASTRA robot assembles a structure in orbit for the first timeJoseph Shavit
A conceptual visualization shows laser-controlled vibrations in a nitrogen molecular ion beside its calcium-ion partner, which enables nondestructive quantum-state readout. Colors and scale are illustrative.
DiscoveriesGlobal first: Scientists identify and trigger ‘forbidden’ vibrations in single moleculesJoshua Shavit
An illustration shows how the unusual skull and neck anatomy of Scaphokogia huachafo, an extinct relative of modern pygmy sperm whales, positioned its snout toward the seafloor, suggesting an adaptation for feeding near the ocean bottom.
DiscoveriesSix-million-year-old whale fossil reveals an extraordinarily lopsided faceHannah Shavit-Weiner
Researchers are exploring whether AI models using social and economic data could help target preventive dental care toward higher-risk groups.
AIAI can help identify people most at risk for tooth decayShy Cohen
An illustration depicts a black hole pulling matter from a nearby companion star into a swirling accretion disk, a process that can sometimes produce powerful jets of material whose triggering mechanisms remain poorly understood.
SpaceX-ray warning signs offer advance notice of black hole jet ejectionsJoseph Shavit
EpiPad uses tiny radar sensors to turn forearm skin into a smartwatch trackpad that recognizes gestures and pressure.
InnovationsEpiPad wristband turns your forearm into a smartwatch trackpadJoshua Shavit