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Medical Xpress / Why the human brain matures slower than its primate relatives

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying to understand what is ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Genetics
Phys.org / Chinchorro mummification may have originated as a form of art therapy, study suggests

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of artificial mummification among the Chinchorro people may have evolved as a response to high infant mortality ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / A third path to explain consciousness: Biological computationalism

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain in terms of abstract information ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Anode-free battery can double electric vehicle driving range

Could an electric vehicle travel from Seoul to Busan and back on a single charge? Could drivers stop worrying about battery performance even in winter? A Korean research team has taken a major step toward answering these ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Astronomers explore the double nucleus of galaxy NGC 4486B

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4486B. Results of the observational campaign, published Dec. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Researchers create world's smallest programmable, autonomous robots

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Robotics
Phys.org / Stardust study resets how life's atoms spread through space

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That's the conclusion of a new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / We analyzed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing 'climate change' from net zero

In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a "net zero skeptic," but "not a climate skeptic." Most recently she doubled down, announcing plans to scrap the 2030 ban on new petrol cars in a 900-word ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Fabricating single-photon light sources from carbon nanotubes

Tiny tubes of carbon that emit single photons from just one point along their length have been made in a deterministic manner by RIKEN researchers. Such carbon nanotubes could form the basis of future quantum technologies ...

Dec 25, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Anything-goes 'anyons' may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Arctic sea ice melt slowdown since 2012 linked to atmospheric pattern shift

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) scholars has discovered a significant slowdown in Arctic sea ice melting since 2012, with a decrease rate of 11.3% per decade to an insignificant ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Earth