Category Archives: Research

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 18, 2025

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘2025 Breakthrough of the Year’…

Good morning, sunshine

The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year

The green giant

Images of China’s clean energy infrastructure reveal a transformation of unmatched scale and speed

Seafloor telecom cable turned into giant earthquake detector

Dense seismic array more than 4000 kilometers long promises new views of Earth’s interior

New materials could supercharge computer memory chips

Ferroelectrics could bolster “flash” memory in AI data centers and autonomous robots

NATURE MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 4, 2025

Volume 648 Issue 8092

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Photo Realism’ – Ethical image data set help to benchmark bias in AI models…

Cooking up a storm of air pollution

A study of the effects of COVID-19 policies highlights the underexplored impacts of commercial cooking on air quality.

The mystery of emerald green — cracked

Emerald’ or ‘Paris’ green was once a highly popular pigment among painters, but the chemistry behind its slow decay over time has been unclear.

Laser cooling traps more antimatter atoms than ever before

Studying trapped antimatter could help to explain why our world is so full of matter.

AI finds signs of life in ancient rocks

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 27, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Herding Cats’ – Ancient DNA suggests later arrival for domestic cats in Europe.

Gene expression dynamics in neonatal sepsis

Rapid gene expression changes during treatment of neonatal sepsis indicate reversibility of host immune response and enable prognostic approaches.

Artificial ‘nose’ tells people when certain smells are present

Technology that uses a less known sensory system to substitute for olfaction could one day help anosmic people detect some odors

Global carbon emissions will soon flatten or decline

With China’s surge in renewable energy, greenhouse gases are reaching a turning point

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 20, 2025

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Soft 3D Transistors’ – Hydrogel semiconductors for biologically compatible electronics.

High-resolution climate model forecasts a wet future

With details as fine as short-term weather forecasts, model achieves newfound accuracy

Make the census voluntary? Bad idea, say statisticians

Pending bills in U.S. Congress could degrade data from national surveys

‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in clinical trial as existing treatments falter

Ganaplacide, developed by Novartis, eases worries about drug resistance—but hard choices loom on how to use it

As neural organoids advance, ethics races to keep pace

Scientists, ethicists, and patient advocates mull biology’s latest provocative technology

NATURE MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 6, 2025

Volume 647 Issue 8088

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Brain Development’ – Mapping the distribution and diversity of cells in the growing brain.’

Artificial brains with less drain

Biologically inspired electronic neurons could boost the efficiency of artificial-intelligence systems.

Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health

People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.

Secret route to warm cosmic ‘inflation’: the nuclear force

Modelling shows how the infant Universe might have stayed warm and dense during its primoridal expansion.

Forests’ misty breath sustains crops in distant lands

The moisture emitted by forests travels across national borders to provide precipitation to far-away fields.

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – NOV/DEC 2025 PREVIEW

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Genetically optimized babies, new ways to measure aging, and embryo-like structures made from ordinary cells: This issue explores how technology can advance our understanding of the human body— and push its limits.

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna

Scientists are creating the beginnings of bodies without sperm or eggs. How far should they be allowed to go?

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

When used correctly, they can help us unpick some of the mysteries of our biology, and our mortality.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 23, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Share My Good Mood’ – Positive affective contagion in bumble bees.

New study fuels debate over lifesaving antibiotic strategy for children in Africa

Mass distribution increases risk of antibiotic resistance, but benefits vanish when treatment is restricted to babies

COVID-19 vaccines may boost cancer immunotherapy

Messenger RNA in the shots could act like a “siren” calling immune cells to destroy tumors

A better recipe for generating immune peacemakers

Nobel laureate develops new method of making regulatory T cells that could treat autoimmune conditions

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 16, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Advanced Nanoscopy’ – 3D rendering of photochemically sectioned brain tissue.

DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of change

Museum specimens reveal loss of genetic diversity in marine fishes of the Philippines

Did lead poisoning help drive human evolution?

“Bold” hypothesis suggests tolerance for lead allowed Homo sapiens to outlive Neanderthals

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel

Spongelike materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases

Chaos and confusion as U.S. shutdown drags on

Mass layoffs, and subsequent reversals, have added to research spending woes

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Life’s Big Bangs’ – Did complex life emerge more than once?

Mysterious Rocks Could Rewrite Evolution of Complex Life

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

Which Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Actually Work?

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 9, 2025

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Eclipsing the Sun’ – A unique cosmic event shows an influence of light on bird behavior.

Research on immune system’s ‘police’ garners Nobel

Three scientists honored for revealing how regulatory T cells prevent autoimmune disease

Quantum effects in circuits honored with Physics Nobel

Breakthrough paved the way to many of today’s budding quantum computers

Steadying the output of fiber lasers

High-power fiber lasers are used in a range of scientific fields in addition to their standard use for technology. However, increases in laser output power are limited by nonlinear effects that can damage the optical components and reduce the beam quality. Rothe et al. used a spatial wavefront-shaping technique for multimode fiber lasers that mitigates their detrimental processes, thus enabling output power to be increased appreciably while maintaining beam quality.