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Phys.org / Glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable times according to the first global map of ice movement

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help us better predict sea-level ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Visual system of butterflies changes with seasons, research reveals

The shift from warm summer to cool fall conditions can be stressful for many animals. Surviving each season requires a multitude of different physiological and behavioral traits that scientists are still working to understand.

Dec 5, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / From field to lab: Study reveals how people with vision loss judge approaching vehicles

Patricia DeLucia has spent decades studying something many of us never think about: judgments about collisions that are crucial for safety. But the roots of her research stretch back to her childhood, long before she became ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Order of cancer-driving mutations affects the chance of tumor development, study shows

The order of cancer-driving mutations—genetic changes—plays an important role in whether tumors in the intestine can develop, new research reveals.

Dec 5, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Archaic humans were strategic and picky hunters, new study suggests

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting of wild cattle. Scientists ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Astrobee: AI-guided robot navigates space station corridors with improved speed and safety

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions.

Dec 5, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover the earliest stages of human placenta formation

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with what it needs to thrive during gestation.

Dec 5, 2025 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Rising temperatures linked to shorter, poorer sleep for US adults

Higher nighttime temperatures are linked to shorter sleep times and lower sleep quality, especially for people with chronic health conditions, lower socioeconomic status, or those living on the West Coast, according to a ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Over 16,000 dinosaur footprints identified along a Bolivian shoreline

A fossil site in Bolivia preserves thousands of traces of dinosaurs who walked, ran, and swam along an ancient coastline, according to a study by Raúl Esperante of the Geoscience Research Institute, California, U.S., and ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Social justice must guide global ecosystem restoration for lasting success, say researchers

Social justice must be at the heart of global restoration initiatives—and not "superficial" or "tokenistic"—if ecosystem degradation is to be addressed effectively, according to new research.

Dec 5, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a "razor-thin" string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Comprehensive map reveals neuronal dendrites in the mouse brain in greater detail

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other cells (i.e., dendrites) is a long-standing objective of neuroscience research. Ultimately, this ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Genetics