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Phys.org / Nature's hardest teeth: Chitons offer blueprint for advanced dental and industrial materials
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan's Okayama and Toho universities have conducted a first-of-its-kind study to understand how chitons, mollusks that feed on algae growing on intertidal rocks, develop ...
Phys.org / LLMs can predict educational and psychological outcomes from childhood essays with remarkable accuracy
Large language models (LLMs), advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models trained to analyze and generate texts in different human languages, have become increasingly widespread over the past few years. Since the release ...
Phys.org / Single pollen parents in flowering plants may be more common than previously thought
While all seeds produced within a fruit have the same maternal genome, the paternal genomes of seeds can come from the pollen of one or more paternal parents. A common assumption about flowering plants is that the ovules ...
Phys.org / Multiwavelength observations investigate the nature of a TeV gamma-ray binary
An international team of astronomers has performed multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray binary system known as HESS J0632+057. Results of the observational campaign, presented July 31 on the pre-print server arXiv, ...
Phys.org / Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms
Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's like observing a dance without being able to see simultaneously exactly where someone is dancing and how fast ...
Phys.org / New study reveals surprising clues about the beginning of subduction on Earth
Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally believed.
Phys.org / Hubble Space Telescope takes best picture yet of the comet visiting from another solar system
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star.
Phys.org / Archaeogenetic study reveals population history of southern Caucasus in unprecedented detail
An international team of researchers from Germany, Georgia, Armenia, and Norway has analyzed ancient DNA from 230 individuals across 50 archaeological sites from Georgia and Armenia.
Phys.org / Machine learning predicts global glacier erosion rates with new precision
Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies, and continue to change Earth's surface. But how fast do glaciers sculpt the landscape?
Phys.org / Adding limestone to farmland boosts carbon capture and crop yields, study finds
Adding crushed calcium carbonate—limestone—to agricultural fields can remove tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year while improving crop yields, a Yale-led study published in Nature Water found.
Phys.org / Rogue waves demystified: Giant seas are just the ocean's 'bad day'
On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its biggest impact was what ...
Phys.org / Mathematical proof provides new perspectives on the effects of blending
What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and beyond.
