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Phys.org / How Earth's mantle locked away vast amounts of water in early magma ocean

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an environment so extreme that ...

54 minutes ago in Earth
Phys.org / Unlocking the sun's magnetic secrets: AI-powered mapping unlock intricate 3D details

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The UH-led team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can map the sun's magnetic ...

26 minutes ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Early childhood adversity can disrupt brain networks and result in lifelong health burden

Scientists have known for some time that people who experience early childhood adversity are more prone to developing health and behavioral issues in adulthood, but the brain mechanisms behind these disparities are not well ...

54 minutes ago in Health
Tech Xplore / New window insulation blocks heat, but not your view

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a new material for insulating windows that could improve the energy efficiency of buildings worldwide—and it works a bit like a high-tech version of Bubble ...

12 minutes ago in Engineering
Phys.org / How extreme weather events affect agricultural trade between US states

The U.S. is largely self-sufficient in agricultural food production, supported by a well-developed storage and interstate trade system. However, extreme weather events put increasing pressure on agriculture, potentially impacting ...

54 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / Fungal allies arm plant roots against disease by rewriting the rules of infection

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell membrane at pathogen infection sites—offering critical new insights into how plants coordinate ...

45 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / Enhancing machine-learning interatomic potentials for advanced materials modeling

Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, scientists have been using it to make accurate yet inexpensive calculations of interatomic potentials, ...

1 hour ago in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Greater patient safety in major lung surgery: World's largest study provides new insights

The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine has conducted the world's largest study on patient safety in major ...

1 hour ago in Surgery
Phys.org / The surprising theology inside today's Advent calendars

It would be easy to conclude that Advent calendars—usually with 25 compartments that reveal a treat, image or scripture, used to count down the days from Dec. 1 to Christmas Eve—represent just another way Christmas is ...

14 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / How AI might aid clinicians in analyzing medical images

In recent years, AI has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing medical images. Thanks to advances in computing and large medical datasets from which AI can learn, it has proven to be a valuable aid in reading and analyzing ...

1 hour ago in Health informatics
Medical Xpress / Brain biomarker links inflammation to poor treatment response in psychiatric disorders

Individuals with psychiatric disorders exhibiting seemingly similar symptoms often respond very differently to the same treatment, suggesting that distinct biological processes are at work beneath the surface of similar clinical ...

43 minutes ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Hundreds are quarantined in South Carolina as measles spreads in 2 US outbreaks

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.