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Medical Xpress / Lewy body formation in Parkinson's disease: Scientists propose a new molecular roadmap

Proteins form the building blocks of life, but when they form unusual clumps inside the brain, they raise an alarm that something isn't right.

12 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Astronomers discover a companion cluster to Czernik 38

Astronomers from the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Cairo, Egypt, have investigated a young open cluster known as Czernik 38. As a result, they found a new open cluster, which turns out ...

13 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Massive black hole mystery unlocked by researchers

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic conundrum has now been provided by researchers at Ireland's Maynooth University (MU) and reported today ...

11 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / New insight into light-matter thermalization could advance neutral-atom quantum computing

Light and matter can remain at separate temperatures even while interacting with each other for long periods, according to new research that could help scale up an emerging quantum computing approach in which photons and ...

8 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Social interaction among infants boosts diversity of gut microbial strains, study shows

The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent study published in the journal Nature.

8 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Sweetening the deal for sustainability, while removing carbon dioxide

Here's a novel pathway to a more sustainable planet: carbo-loading for the public good. In a new study published in Nature Synthesis, chemists at Yale and the University of California-Berkeley have developed a two-step process ...

8 hours ago in Chemistry
Phys.org / Meet the marten: An updated look at a rare, adorable carnivore

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest carnivore renowned for its cuteness but nearly driven to extinction by human activity in the 20th ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Innovative optical atomic clock could combine single-ion accuracy with multi-ion stability

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could change the definition of ...

7 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities

Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental physics behind unusual states of matter and developing materials that can host the kinds of properties ...

7 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Psilocybin could treat depression via a non-hallucinogenic receptor

Psychedelics, psychoactive substances that alter people's perceptions, mood and thought patterns, have recently shown promise for the treatment of some mental health disorders, including depression and substance use disorders ...

16 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team ...

7 hours ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / Analog hardware may solve Internet of Things' speed bumps and bottlenecks

The ubiquity of smart devices—not just phones and watches, but lights, refrigerators, doorbells and more, all constantly recording and transmitting data—is creating massive volumes of digital information that drain energy ...

8 hours ago in Hardware