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Acute poisoning and drug overdose remain a leading cause of pediatric emergency department visits and hospital admissions worldwide, encompassing accidental ...

SEGA has showcased a rare look at early gameplay in Sonic Frontiers at this week's Tokyo Game Show. The game looks like it was very much inspired by the…

The discovery of water at the poles of the Moon has inspired speculation about whether we can build there - cities, industrial neighborhoods, places where peopl

Dan Hendrycks, Sep 09, 2026 - Utilitarians at AI companies imagine a cosmos filled with blissful AIs. They might risk human extinction to achieve it.

Species introductions are a hallmark of human influence on ecosystems worldwide. In communities where native and introduced fauna coexist, predators may sele...

NASA's Starling mission has marked another milestone in spacecraft autonomy by using a

The aging process is characterized by a progressive decline in physiological function, culminating in increased susceptibility to infections, altered immune ...

If AI reaches the point where it can do the cognitive work humans do, robots will proliferate. Standard data on US industry implies a fully automated economy could double its out…

Orcas exhibit highly specialized behavioral and cognitive adaptations that enable them to hunt large marine prey, including the largest teleosts, the sunfish...

CERN's Large Hadron Collider produces 40 million particle collisions per second - far more data than computers can handle. Through real-time filtering, AI can help.

While there is robust literature on the negative impact of adolescent device use on physical and psychological health, there is less research on the use of t...

In Kenya, Luxury Frontiers returns to Amboseli with a lodge that abandons the canvas tent for walls plastered with the earth beneath it.

AI use in research is now the norm, but the boundaries of acceptable use remain unclear. If trust in the academic record is to be maintained, the research commu

The more advanced the symbolic mathematics, the more impenetrable the meaning. This is particularly evident in quantum theory, where symbolic formalisms fore...

Human consciousness has evolved under the constant pull of terrestrial gravity, yet its role in shaping perception and awareness has received limited theoret...

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.28576: Tiered Super-Moore's Law: Price Evolution, Production Frontiers, and Market Competition in Large Language Model Inference Services

In addition to a large variety of somatic symptoms, fever also affects cognition, sleep, and mood. In an online survey with 164 participants, 100 fever dream...

Bans on teenagers' social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people's mental health, but w

BackgroundAdvanced Alzheimer's disease (AD) is generally regarded as a stage of irreversible functional decline. Psilocybin is known to transiently alter lar...

Concerns about declining research quality have increasingly been framed as "junkification", whereby academic output expands in volume while declini...

IntroductionBicycling, inclusive of cycling on trail or road, and stationary forms, is recognized for its substantial physical benefits and has gained attent...

As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain ele...

BackgroundThe successive releases of GPT-3 (May 2020) and ChatGPT (November 2022) have been widely hypothesized to constitute inflection points in the automa...

We investigated whether chloroquine, could prevent hantavirus infection in vitro and in vivo, using the Hantaan virus newborn C57BL/6 mice model and the Syri...

Scientists have shown for the first time that solar activity can predict the rate at which space junk and satellites descend from orbit

Loss aversion is well supported by experimental evidence from structured and well-defined private decision-making tasks, yet its role in political dilemmas r...

IntroductionInfrasound describes sound wave frequencies below 20 Hz, which are typically imperceptible to humans. Some animals perceive and demonstrate avers...

A short meditative visual poem about the edge of galactic expansion.

Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric condition characterized by positive symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions, as well as negative symptoms su...

The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a serious threat to global health. Environmental bacterial communities are a key reservoir of AMR gene...

Loop is the open research network that increases the discoverability and impact of researchers and their work. Loop enables you to stay up-to-date with the latest discoveries and…

Extremophiles are microorganisms that thrive in environments previously thought to be uninhabitable, including extreme temperature, salinity, pH, pressure, a...

BackgroundEmerging evidence suggests that the ability to sense internal bodily signals, interoceptive awareness, is central to embodied consciousness and ada...

Socioeconomic development influences both the drivers and consequences of climate change, but many scenario applications still rely on highly aggregated indi...

The first generation of AI infrastructure companies unlocked the

An overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration.

IntroductionWhile corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic nor...

The annual ceremony of the Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, is normally held in the United States. This September it will take place in Zurich after organ…

Understanding how ecological and social constraints interacted to shape bison hunting systems during the late Holocene reveals the dynamic ways bison hunting...

Crystals are fascinating structures of solid or liquid matter where atoms, molecules, and/or ions are, on average, arranged in a highly ordered lattice. It i...

This paper explores the dynamics of political market entropy in Rome between 1993 and 2023, analyzing 29 electoral cycles across local, regional, national, a...

Gravity is a fundamental interaction that permeates throughout our universe. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and has been a constant pres...

The pervasive nature of short-form video platforms has seamlessly integrated into daily routines, yet it is important to recognize their potential adverse ef...

IntroductionThe trimeric spike (S) protein on the envelope of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the primary target structure for currently approved corona vaccines. Fo...

IntroductionAncient cryospheric environments may preserve overlooked reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and bioactive potential. This study reports...

A bacterial strain thriving in icy environments could sharpen antibiotic resistance crisis - or help solve it, new research shows

Quantum biology is a modern field of research that aims to understand how quantum effects can affect the chemistry underlying various biological processes. T...

Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...

Natural selection is based on the concept of differential reproduction between entities, often characterized as a struggle between individual organisms. Howe...

Anime is a powerful tool for science education and outreach, thanks to its popularity among younger generations and its greater accessibility. Anime conventi...

A growing body of evidence means it's no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious.

Tutorials, deep dives, and case studies on agent context, MCP servers, RAG infrastructure, governance, and building multi-agent systems - from the puppyone team.

Listening to joyful music helped study participants with motion sickness recover better than other participants - while sad music helped less than doing nothing

For two decades, the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open portal was the bedrock of U.S. disaster response and community planning-a free, authoritative map…

Learn about state-of-the-art synthesis coming from one of the world's leading catalysis research groups

Swiss Post tests four-legged robots in Zurich to aid parcel delivery.

Dane A. Morey, Jul 15, 2025 - Across disciplines, bad AI predictions have a surprising tendency to make human experts perform worse.

Researchers here developed a monoclonal antibody specific against mugwort pollen - an important allergen causing hay fever - in mice, which is highly effective