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Prof Jim Al-Khalili argues that attempts by tech billionaires to achieve eternal life are futile, as he prepares to address the 'arrow of time' problem in Royal Institution lectures.
A new analysis finds that Chinese companies affected by US technology restrictions shifted their sources of knowledge and increased reliance on scientific research to remain competitive, according to a study …
Scientists have developed a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom, enabling the first direct test of whether gravity affects second-generation particles as Einstein's theory predicts.
New research suggests the forebrain and hindbrain develop from distinct progenitor cells, a split dating back at least 550 million years that could reshape ALS and obesity research.
Stanford University researchers genetically modified mice so their brains can receive and support human brain cells, a step toward studying human brain function in living animals.
The first scientific study of last month's catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet finds that unusually warm conditions weakened the glacier before its collapse, pointing to climate breakdown as a …
New policy road maps in the US, UK, and EU aim to phase out animal testing, but researchers warn that some animal studies remain essential for drug safety and fundamental …
A new theoretical framework treats heavy giant gravitons as a zero-dimensional defect, allowing bootstrap techniques to compute previously intractable correlation functions in strongly coupled quantum field theory.
Ginestra Bianconi's gravity from entropy theory shows how local entropy density can decrease while total cosmic entropy rises, potentially resolving a longstanding cosmological paradox and offering a new path toward …
A worldwide survey of physicists reveals no majority consensus on the standard cosmological model, dark matter, or quantum gravity, though 68% agree the Big Bang may not mark the beginning …
A Swiss court has acquitted a geologist and local officials over the 2017 avalanche that killed two people, but researchers warn the case could make hazard experts legally vulnerable for …
A new analysis finds that one in five shared social science datasets fails to protect participant privacy, undermining promises of anonymity and raising questions about replication practices.
A new analysis finds that emotional messaging about climate change, such as the viral response to El Niño coverage, moves people to act far more effectively than statistics alone.
Two new papers by Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle argue that a proposed neutrino laser based on Bose-Einstein condensates is impossible, citing fundamental quantum mechanical constraints.
Researchers at the University of Miami and NOAA CIMAS estimate that skilful weather forecasts could theoretically extend to about 129 days, far beyond the current 14-day ceiling, by analyzing the …
Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have developed a graphene oxide and self-assembled monolayer bilayer that suppresses losses at buried interfaces in all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells, achieving 27.3% efficiency and record operational …
OpenAI has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems, using AI. The result, which shows the equations can fail under certain …
A new study shows that in large quantum networks, predictions based only on real numbers diverge increasingly from standard complex-number quantum theory, indicating that complex numbers are not just a …
Scientists have identified two separate climate regimes emerging in the Siberian Arctic as temperatures rise, each with different implications for permafrost thaw and the potential release of vast methane reserves …
An international team led by INAF astronomer Victor Almendros-Abad has identified 353 candidate brown dwarfs in the massive star cluster Westerlund 2, including objects as small as ten Jupiter masses, …
