Science
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Shorter front-leg strides can be an early warning sign of dementia in senior dogs
Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases as their cognitive performance wor...
Designer proteins unlock near-infrared and SWIR glow for deeper tissue imaging
Researchers at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT/UCC) in Dresden, including Oliver Bruns and Dr. Bernardo Arús, are participating in an international...
Ancient stories inform modern understanding of volcanic eruptions
A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often overlooked insights into volcanic erup...
'Super-puff' planets lighter than candy floss discovered by international team
An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare "super-puff" planets with densities lower than candy f...
Did gravitational tides cause Earth's extinctions?
Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand...
Laser experiments push helium to record shock pressures
Deep inside gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, hydrogen and helium coexist under pressures millions of times greater than Earth's atmosphere. Under those condi...
How longer exciton lifetimes could ease efficiency trade-off in organic solar cells
Although the efficiency of organic solar cells has now risen to more than 20%, there are physical limits that make it difficult to further increase their perfor...
Mathematical modeling helps advance use of magnetic particles in targeted drug-delivery systems
A Florida State University computational scientist is paving the way for future medical breakthroughs by developing mathematical models and simulations to predi...
Drifting tuna gear creates risks for wildlife in protected marine areas
An international study co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher has found that drifting devices used by the global tuna fishing industry are e...
Web archive lets you easily search millions of government documents
At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration's web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The a...
A magnetic field that kills superconductivity can also bring it back
Magnetic fields are generally known to destroy superconductivity in a material. However, in exceptional cases, they can lead to what is known as "re-entrant sup...
Euclid mission view of Milky Way's heart previews upcoming survey by NASA's Roman
A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists wil...