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Sunray-like ripples emerge on a frozen reaction front
Researchers in Belgium have unveiled a striking chemical reaction in which ripples along a frozen reaction front resemble the rays of a shining star. Publishing...
Extreme heat waves trigger unexpected nanoparticle formation in air
Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent stud...
Dense aquatic plants kept Spree River levels steady despite a near 50% flow drop
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have used long-term data from the Spree River to discover that aquatic pla...
Can Baltic Sea pollution cut fertilizer imports? A lab method suggests a path
The Baltic Sea is one of the world's most oxygen-depleted major bodies of water. The reason is excessive concentrations of phosphorus, an element essential for...
5,000-year-old bureaucracy: Over 7,000 prehistoric seal impressions uncovered in western Iran
In the journal Antiquity, Dr. Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient...
Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix
Publicly funded research underpins much of daily life, from policy decisions to innovation and public debate. When research remains inaccessible, its value is d...
Quantum reservoir computing peaks at the edge of many-body chaos, study suggests
Reservoir computing is a promising machine learning-based approach for the analysis of data that changes over time, such as weather patterns, recorded speech or...
Martian volcanoes could be hiding massive glaciers under a blanket of ash
When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes. But the poles are ha...
In sea urchin and salmon sperm, pH value regulates whether they remain immotile or swim
A study by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Bonn has shown that pH value is crucial for sperm motility in sea urchi...
Last nuclear weapons limits expired—pushing world toward new arms race
For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the largest nuclear forces on Earth. The New START treaty expi...
Carefree bachelor or incel: Men are judged for being single, too
Reports of widespread "dating burnout" and a cultural shift toward heteropessimism—a feeling of disappointment or despair at the state of relations between men...
The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn't cheating—it's the erosion of learning itself
Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can...