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Phys.org / California's largest reservoir rises 36 feet as rains boost water supply statewide

When it rains, it pours. And that's good news for California's water supply.

6 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Study overturns long-held model of how plants coordinate immune responses

Plants mobilize their immune defenses far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously overlooked early signaling mechanism—according to a new study published in Nature Plants.

10 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Equal treatment ads can backfire, study finds

A new study published in Marketing Science has found that some of the most widely considered online advertising safety and fairness policies may actually boost ad platform revenues while improving fairness outcomes. The policies ...

2 hours ago in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people ...

10 hours ago in Robotics
Phys.org / Science army mobilizes to map US soil microbiome

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

2 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / New AI model predicts disease risk while you sleep

A poor night's sleep portends a bleary-eyed next day, but it could also hint at diseases that will strike years down the road. A new artificial intelligence model developed by Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues ...

Medical Xpress / Hypervigilance, anxiety linked to poor treatment outcomes in esophageal disorder

Increased esophageal hypervigilance and anxiety were associated with worse post-treatment symptoms and poor quality of life in patients with achalasia, a rare esophageal motility disorder, according to a recent Northwestern ...

Medical Xpress / How stressors during pregnancy impact the developing fetal brain

The maternal microbiome and immune system have both independent and synergistic effects on fetal brain health—changes in the mother's immune system have been linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in ...

10 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Immune sabotage: How a Vitamin A byproduct compromises the body's normal anti-cancer response

Scientists at the Princeton University Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have identified novel mechanisms by which a metabolic derivative of vitamin A—all-trans retinoic acid—compromises both the body's ...

11 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / From pint to plate, scientists brew up a new way to grow meat

Yeast left over from brewing beer can be transformed into edible "scaffolds" for cultivated meat—sometimes known as lab-grown meat—which could offer a more sustainable, cost-effective alternative to current methods, according ...

4 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / CDC urges 'shared decision-making' on some childhood vaccines; many unclear about what that means

On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dramatically reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11, citing practices in other wealthy nations, including Denmark, Germany, and ...

3 hours ago in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Direct 3D printing of nanolasers can boost optical computing and quantum security

In future high-tech industries, such as high-speed optical computing for massive AI, quantum cryptographic communication, and ultra-high-resolution augmented reality (AR) displays, nanolasers—which process information using ...

4 hours ago in Nanotechnology