Category Archives: Research

Science: Nature Magazine – January 29, 2025 Preview

Volume 637 Issue 8048

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Deposit Accopunt’ – How brine evaporation left sodium salts on the asteroid Bennu…

Seaweed farms dish up climate benefits

First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosys

The surprising link between muscle and the reproductive system

Myostatin, which blocks muscle development, unexpectedly has an effect on ovulation in female mice.

Rubbish under the floorboards exposes secret snacking in colonial Australia

Seeds, fruit stones and other remnants hidden in a Sydney barracks in the nineteenth century show residents’ deviation from the standard diet.

Science Magazine —- January 24, 2025 Preview

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Maniforld Males’ – Genetic orchestration of breeding morphs in ruffs…

Private fusion firms put bold claims to the test

Amid skepticism, companies bet that speed and innovation can realize fusion’s promise

The parting of water

Green hydrogen is key to decarbonizing the world. But the costly, finicky devices that make it need dramatic improvement

Misreported meals skew nutrition research data

Survey-based studies linking diet patterns to health may be fatally flawed, paper suggests

Science: Nature Magazine —- January 23, 2025 Preview

Volume 637 Issue 8047

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Net Gains’ – Small-scale fisheries make major contribution to sustainable food, nutrition and livelihoods…

Mines for a clean-energy metal have a surprise climate effect

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

Hidden tattoos on mummy skin emerge under a laser’s light

Blurry markings more than 1,000 years old become clear again thanks to scanning method.

Got flu? Promising drug shortens symptoms

Influenza viruses have not evolved resistance to suraxavir marboxil, which relieves cough, fever and other symptoms.

Voter turnout drives margins of victory ― if elections are fair

Model that predicts the spread of winning margins could be used to detect electoral interference.

Scientific American Magazine – February 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell

Why We Need to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Space

Crushed Rocks Could Be the Next Climate Solution

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think

Transcendent Thinking May Boost Teen Brains

Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s before Symptoms Appear

Science: Nature Magazine – January 16, 2025 Preview

Volume 637 Issue 8046

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Punk Rocks’ – Spiky 3D fossils add to the diversity of ancient molluscs…

Male spiders smell with their legs

Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

Particle accelerators get an assist from AI co-pilots

Large language models can propose fine-tuning adjustments for an electron accelerator in Germany.

How the brain cleans itself during deep sleep

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

Cosmic carnage: planetary rubble spotted at a dying star

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula.

Science Magazine —- January 10, 2025 Issue

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Not Skipping Meals’ – A narrow diet not responsible for extinction of short-faced kangaroos…

Fish could personalize cancer treatments

The first clinical trial of zebrafish embryos acting as cancer “avatars” will start soon

‘Good boring’: How Bluesky is shaping scientists’ discourse

The fast-growing platform may be more equitable than X, but gives scientists a smaller stage

Dogs sniff out truffles—in the name of science

Their keen noses are helping researchers uncover the diversity of the Pacific Northwest’s underground fungi

How a neurotransmitter drives brainwashing during sleep

Pulsating blood vessels push fluid into and out of the brains of slumbering mice

Science: Nature Magazine – January 9, 2025 Preview

Volume 637 Issue 8045

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Skin Deep’ – How the crocodile’s head got its scales…

This digital-memory device keeps its cool even at 600 °C

A battery-like technology uses a metal called tantalum to create an equivalent of digital 0s and 1s.

Fancy birds decorate nests with a natural pattern: snakeskin

The use of shed skins might help to ward off predators, experiments suggest.

A blood test detects aged cells

Proteins could serve as biomarkers for senescent cells, which have stopped dividing but have not yet died.

That Christmas jumper is a marvel of complicated physics

Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitted fabric is deformed.

MIT Technology Review – January/February 2025

MIT Technology Review (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ’10 Breakthrough Technologies’ – Fast-learning robots, next-gen jet fuel, new HIV protection meds, the largest camera ever built to document the cosmos, and more. Plus: digital twins, high-tech fisheries, and the AI Hype Index.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list.

AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it

Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.

AI is changing how we study bird migration

After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.

Will we ever trust robots?

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Dec. 20, 2024

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Science Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Light Emission with a Twist’ – Hot, twisted carbon nanotube yarns emit bright circularly polarlized light…

Can psychedelics improve well-being in autism?

A brace of new studies probes benefits and risks for an understudied group

Thermal radiation with a twist

Carbon nanotube filaments with a twisted geometry emit spinning heat waves at high temperatures