Category Archives: Research

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.

New Scientist Magazine – October 11, 2025

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New Scientist Magazine: This issue features ‘Decoding Dementia’ – How to understand your risk of Alzheimer’s, and what you can really do about it.

Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong

One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

Autism may have subtypes that are genetically distinct from each other

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Slipping through the cracks’ – Plants attract bacteria by leaking glutamine from gaps between cells when root barriers break down.

Wildfire management at a crossroads: Mitigation and prevention or response and recovery?

A computer scientist’s technological gamble

On prosthetics, printed organs, and pig hearts

Hidden networks in the brain

Battery charging goes quantum

Upwelling that lasted millions of years

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Color of Prey’ – Selection for warning coloration and camouflage.

Buried salt is abetting Arctic thaw

Ancient layers of saline permafrost are melting below zero, deepening lakes and weakening coasts

Gardening strategies of termite farmers

Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont

Understanding avian influenza mortality

Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly

An inheritance of long life

Parental lysosomes modify epigenetic signaling to influence offspring life span

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Voyage to Nowhere’

How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

When the Rain Pours, the Mountains Move

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

New Fossils Could Help Solve Long-standing Mystery of Bird Migration

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bringing In Light’ – A Swirling supercomplex captures ocean light for photosynthesis.

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

New picture of Mars’s interior emerges from lander data

Studies identify a solid inner core and buried remnants of giant impacts

Did Great Britain’s economy shrug off the end of Roman rule?

Pollutants in sediment core suggest mining and smelting did not tail off

Strongest black hole collision yet resonates with Einstein

“Overtone” in gravitational waves from black hole merger matches predictions of general relativity

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 4, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rules of Thumb’ – The importance of a hand that holds in the evolution of rodents.

Was a blob of dark matter spotted in the Milky Way?

If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Galaxy’s hidden architecture

Carcinogenic metal detected in air after LA fires

The unusually tiny particles of hexavalent chromium could pose a health hazard despite low levels, researchers say

India tests new tools to predict local monsoon floods

“Hyperlocal” forecasts help Mumbai prepare for dangerous downpours

Can the global drone revolution make agriculture more sustainable?

Rapid growth in drone use is upending expectations but also inducing trade-offs