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Phys.org / Delaying building block supply boosts self-assembly efficiency of complex systems, biophysicists demonstrate

The ability to self-organize is a key feature of biological systems and is widely found in nature: small building blocks that autonomously assemble give rise to macromolecules such as the cell nucleus, virus capsids, or complex ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / How to watch the last supermoon of the year

The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies.

Dec 1, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Small changes make some AI systems more brain-like than others

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.

Dec 1, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Medical Xpress / Protein abnormality illuminates communication struggles in autism

A DGIST research team identified that the mutation of the collybistin protein found in autistic patients weakens the brain's inhibitory synaptic function and leads to communication deficiencies. The results of this research ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Advances in spacecraft control: New algorithm guarantees precision under extreme disturbances

An international team of researchers has unveiled a spacecraft attitude control system that can guarantee precise stabilization and maneuvering within a predefined time, even under extreme and unpredictable space disturbances.

Dec 1, 2025 in Engineering
Phys.org / 'Baby boom' of Bonelli's eagles during COVID lockdown unmasks impact of human activity

Thanks to more than three decades of monitoring, researchers at the University of Granada reveal how human absence during the pandemic impacted the reproduction of a threatened species: the Bonelli's eagle

Dec 1, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Childhood trauma may lead to more difficult births

Women who have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences during childhood have more difficult births than others. They are much more likely to need emergency cesarean sections, suffer major hemorrhages or pre-eclampsia, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / A molecule opens a breach in HIV, providing access to its reservoirs

An international team led by two Université de Montréal researchers has unveiled how a molecule capable of opening the "shell" of HIV improves the elimination of infected cells.

Dec 1, 2025 in HIV & AIDS
Phys.org / Sugar-coated sensor sniffs out look-alike molecules in the air

Scientists have designed a new type of gas sensor that can tell apart "mirror image" versions of the same smell molecule, even at very low concentrations. By coating carbon nanotubes with custom-built sugar-based receptors, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Humans and artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Funding agencies can end profit-first science publishing

Funding organizations can fix the science publishing system—which currently puts profit first and science second—according to research published on the arXiv preprint server.

Dec 1, 2025 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / Green electronics: Smart sensor tag protects sensitive goods

Researchers from Empa, EPFL and CSEM have developed a green smart sensing tag that measures temperature and humidity in real time—and can also detect whether a temperature threshold has been exceeded. In the future, this ...