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Tech Xplore / Europe looks to catch up with US in AI race at German digital summit

Europe must strive to lead in the AI race, top officials urged Tuesday at a summit focused on propelling the region to the forefront of the digital era and reducing its reliance on US tech titans.

2 hours ago in Business
Phys.org / Artificial intelligence sparks debate at COP30 climate talks in Brazil

At the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, artificial intelligence is being cast as both a hero worthy of praise and a villain that needs policing.

2 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Early Triassic sediments reveal Earth's hidden wildfire past

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth's turbulent Early ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Balloon telescope captures new details of matter swirling around black holes

An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and how enormous amounts of energy and ...

20 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Understanding and preventing antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Nov. 18–24, serves as a global call to action to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR)—a growing public health concern that occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites stop responding ...

2 hours ago in Medications
Phys.org / Green-synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles from desert plants show broad antimicrobial activity

As drug-resistant infections continue to rise, researchers are looking for new antimicrobial strategies that are both effective and sustainable. One emerging approach combines nanotechnology with "green" chemistry, using ...

19 hours ago in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Earth's earliest life 3.3 billion years ago revealed by faint biosignatures

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years earlier than previously ...

21 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / A unified model of memory and perception: How Hebbian learning explains our recall of past events

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain. The study, recently published in Neuron, shows that distinct perceptual ...

20 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / From artificial organs to advanced batteries: A breakthrough 3D-printable polymer

A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body's immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia research team, could lead to safer medical technology for organ transplants and drug delivery systems. ...

20 hours ago in Chemistry
Medical Xpress / Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health

Like all living things, bacteria adapt to survive. Over time, bacteria have been developing resistance to common antibiotics and disinfectants, which poses a growing problem for health care and sanitation. However, many species ...

20 hours ago in Medical research
Medical Xpress / Gene 'switch' reverses Alzheimer's risk in experimental model

University of Kentucky researchers have developed a new experimental model that could point the way toward more effective Alzheimer's disease treatments by targeting one of the brain's most important genes for risk and resilience.

21 hours ago in Genetics
Phys.org / Worries about climate change are waning in many well-off nations—but growing in Turkey, Brazil and India

Polling on public attitudes to climate change show a dip in the numbers who worry about it in many high-income countries, compared with three years ago. This declining public concern will be a worry to those governments looking ...

22 hours ago in Earth