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Tech Xplore / Turning surroundings into a 'virtual screen' could help machines see better in 3D
Imagine navigating a city street during rush hour—cars and bikes zipping by, pedestrians hustling down a crowded sidewalk, your eyes adjusting to the shop windows' glare in one moment and a dark underpass the next. Our brain, ...
Phys.org / New 'Happy-Face' spider species discovered in the Indian Himalayas
Vibrant, tiny, and sporting a bright red grin on its back, the Happy-Face spider is one of the most famous and recognizable arachnids in the world. For over a century, this cheerful-looking creature was thought to be a unique ...
Science X / The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have triggered a global fungal bloom
The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new research published in ...
Medical Xpress / Why brain cells learn better: NMDA receptor maps may explain memory-linked calcium flow
The human brain constantly adapts in response to experiences, forming new connections between neurons and reorganizing existing ones. The brain's ability to adapt in response to experiences is known as neuroplasticity.
Phys.org / Amazonian cocoa has a new edge: Two standout cultivars could change how growers fight witches' broom
Witches' broom disease, caused by the fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, decimated cocoa crops in southern Bahia state, Brazil, in the 1990s. It was even the subject of a local soap opera and continues to plague the chocolate ...
Medical Xpress / Health care is facing a moral emergency, argue experts
Health care has lost its human, moral, and relational foundations and must reconnect with its core values to improve both patient and staff well-being, argue experts in The BMJ. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostic ...
Phys.org / People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly conversational agents such as ChatGPT or Gemini, are now used daily by a growing number of people worldwide. While many users trust the answers of AI agents to their queries, ...
Phys.org / Birds clap in the dark to flirt: Nightjars reveal a hidden language of sound
Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sharp clapping ...
Phys.org / Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk
It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades ...
Phys.org / US government is using AI more, but hiring gaps and risk culture still slow progress
As is every large organization, the U.S. government is assessing how to best integrate artificial intelligence into its procedures and workflows. While AI has undeniable risks, it also has the potential to make work significantly ...
Phys.org / AtLAST, a telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe
A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ever seen the Milky Way in the night sky, you probably noticed that it looks cloudy. That is because ...
Phys.org / New RNA tool maps structure and motifs across organisms and viruses
Researchers at the University of Würzburg have unveiled a new tool for analyzing RNA molecules. It visualizes their structures as interactive maps and could help to improve our understanding of diseases.
