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Tech Xplore / Puerto Rico case study provides better way to plan for energy transitions

A new article published in Nature Communications offers insight into how government planners can better account for the many uncertainties that accompany the transition from fossil-fuel power systems to renewable or decarbonized ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Medical Xpress / Dance effective in fighting against cognitive decline in Parkinson's, study finds

A new study led by researchers at York University shows that dance can be beneficial in halting the cognitive decline associated with Parkinson's disease and, for some participants, they even showed signs of improvement. ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Neuroscience
Tech Xplore / Iron-on electronic patches enable easy integration of circuits into fabrics

Iron-on patches can repair clothing or add personal flair to backpacks and hats. And now they could power wearable tech, too. Researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have combined liquid metal and a heat-activated ...

Phys.org / X-ray spikes reveal electron beam size

While synchrotron radiation is often thought of as "stable," the electromagnetic field exhibits pronounced randomly fluctuating distributions both temporally and spatially. These fluctuations encode spatial information about ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers

The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Subnational income inequality revealed: Regional successes may hold key to addressing widening gap globally

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report card by the G20, income ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Free climbers discover remnants of ancient sea turtle stampede in Italy

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by unsuspecting visitors. This occurred ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / 10-thousand-year-old genomes from southern Africa change picture of human evolution

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 and 150 years ago in ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Comprehensive map reveals neuronal dendrites in the mouse brain in greater detail

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other cells (i.e., dendrites) is a long-standing objective of neuroscience research. Ultimately, this ...

Dec 4, 2025 in Genetics
Tech Xplore / Aerial microrobot can fly as fast as a bumblebee

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots ...

Dec 3, 2025 in Robotics
Phys.org / Physicists provide key mass data for determining X-ray burst reaction rate

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has directly measured the masses of two highly unstable atomic nuclei, phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27. These precise measurements ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics

Methanol is an ideal feedstock for bio-manufacturing. Converting it into lactate, a monomer for biodegradable plastic, offers a promising strategy for addressing the challenge of white pollution. However, it remains difficult ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Biology