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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
Phys.org / Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, new study confirms

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a separate species or simply a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex? A new paper published in Science has definitively ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Open-source framework enables addition of AI to software without prompt engineering

Developers can now integrate large language models directly into their existing software using a single line of code, with no manual prompt engineering required. The open-source framework, known as byLLM, automatically generates ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Software
Phys.org / People swear on social media more with acquaintances than with friends—analysis can help detect fake profiles

Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in its use. The f-word is rarely used in social networks of fewer than 15 people, and people tend to ...

Dec 6, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Sick ant pupae emit chemical signals to prompt their own destruction

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

Dec 6, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Historical geography helps researchers solve 2,700-year old eclipse mystery

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar eclipse record known to the scientific community, enabling accurate measurements of Earth's variable ...

Dec 2, 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
Phys.org / It's important for criminal sentences, but how do we know if someone's remorseful?

The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative moments: the crime, the arrest, the plea, the verdict, and the offender's emotional response to what ...

Dec 6, 2025 in Other Sciences
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
Tech Xplore / Aluminum nitride transistor advances next-gen RF electronics

Cornell researchers have developed a new transistor architecture that could reshape how high-power wireless electronics are engineered, while also addressing supply chain vulnerabilities for a critical semiconductor material.

Dec 4, 2025 in Engineering
Phys.org / The bacteria that won't wake up: NASA discovers new bacteria 'playing dead'

New research conducted on a NASA-discovered bacterium shows the microbe is capable of entering an extreme dormant state, essentially "playing dead" to survive in some of the cleanest environments on Earth.

Dec 3, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Antibody therapy eradicates traces of multiple myeloma in preliminary trial

Treatment with an immune and cancer cell-targeting antibody therapy eradicates residual traces of the blood cell cancer multiple myeloma, according to interim results from a clinical trial conducted by researchers at Sylvester ...

Dec 6, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer