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Medical Xpress / How the cerebellum builds its connections with the rest of the brain during early development

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has reconstructed how the ...

47 minutes ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Blend of unusual weather conditions brings trillions of gallons in persistent rain to the Northwest

Warm water and air and unusual weather conditions tracing back as far as tropical cyclone flooding in Indonesia helped supercharge stubborn atmospheric rivers that have drenched Washington state with almost 5 trillion gallons ...

8 minutes ago in Earth
Phys.org / NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.

8 minutes ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi

Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver.

7 minutes ago in Health
Tech Xplore / AI's $400 bn problem: Are chips getting old too fast?

In pursuit of the AI dream, the tech industry this year has plunked down about $400 billion on specialized chips and data centers, but questions are mounting about the wisdom of such unprecedented levels of investment.

15 minutes ago in Electronics & Semiconductors
Medical Xpress / US suicide rate fell in 2024 after hovering at high level

The U.S. suicide rate dropped slightly last year from some of the highest levels ever reported, preliminary data suggests. Experts say it's hard to know exactly why, or whether the decline will continue.

9 minutes ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Following Australia's lead, Denmark plans to ban social media for children younger than 15

As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead and severely restrict social media access for young people.

9 minutes ago in Internet
Phys.org / Vietnam's capital chokes through week of toxic smog

Toxic smog has blanketed Vietnam's capital for more than a week, blotting out the skyline and leaving residents wheezing as Hanoi's air quality dipped to among the world's worst on Thursday.

6 minutes ago in Earth
Phys.org / Canary Islands may be 'missing link' in global sea urchin killer pandemic

Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and seagrass, they control algal growth and promote the survival of slow-growing organisms like corals ...

4 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / AI-based tool predicts future cardiovascular events in patients with angina

Reduced coronary blood flow, measured with an artificial intelligence-based imaging tool, predicted future cardiovascular events in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease. These findings were presented at ...

1 hour ago in Cardiology
Phys.org / Einstein's theory comes wrapped up with a bow: Astronomers spot star 'wobbling' around black hole

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in the night sky. Their study, presented in Science Advances, reports on the very first observations ...

13 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Cats' purrs reveal who's who better than their meows

A new study by researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the University of Naples Federico II shows a domestic cat's purr reveals far more about its individual identity than its meow. While meows are highly flexible ...

15 hours ago in Biology