By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 10:00 AM

Switching on air-conditioning during extreme heat doesn’t have to make us feel guilty—it can actually boost power grid reliability and help bring more renewable energy online ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 9:00 AM

The decision to help a friend or stranger—and the amount of help that one chooses to give—may be powerfully shaped by the brain’s basolateral amydgala ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/13/2025 8:50 AM

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Technical University of Denmark and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid demonstrate a new device called an acoustic rainbow emitter (ARE) that takes in broadband white-noise signals from a point source that radiates sound equally in all directions and scatters it up so that different sound frequencies or pitches are emitted. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 8:40 AM

Physicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 8:00 AM

Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/13/2025 7:00 AM

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and dark stripes called striations that are caused by powerful magnetic fluctuations. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 6:45 AM

The Asian needle ant looks ordinary, but it's sting can be worse than a fire ant's and can be dangerous for anyone who has experienced anaphylaxis ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 6:45 AM

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form throughout the universe ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/13/2025 6:00 AM

The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of canals in what is now Iraq, a new study finds. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/13/2025 6:00 AM

This Father’s Day, we’re celebrating the unusually involved Djungarian hamsters dads ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/12/2025 6:00 PM

In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, accessible and inexpensive than other existing tests. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/12/2025 4:41 PM

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself." ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/12/2025 4:30 PM

A new proof-of-concept study explored the feasibility of tracking the evolution of superbug infections in real time to help save infected patients. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/12/2025 3:11 PM

In squash, the "nick shot" is an emphatic, point-ending play in which a player strikes a ball that ricochets near the bottom of the wall and rolls flat along the floor instead of bouncing, leaving an opponent with no chance to return it. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 6/12/2025 3:00 PM

The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 6/12/2025 12:00 PM

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've seen it or imagined it. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/12/2025 11:40 AM

All humans who have ever lived were once each an individual cell, which then divided countless times to produce a body made up of about 10 trillion cells. These cells have busy lives, executing all kinds of dynamic movement: contracting every time we flex a muscle, migrating toward the site of an injury, and rhythmically beating for decades on end. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 6/12/2025 11:25 AM

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/12/2025 10:00 AM

In a new study, researchers carried out the most extensive coordinated comparison of optical clocks to date by operating clocks and the links connecting them simultaneously across six countries. Spanning thousands of kilometers, the experiment represents a significant step toward redefining the second and ultimately establishing a global optical time scale. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 6/12/2025 9:46 AM

Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope will be the "discovery of the century" isn't an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist Zoltan Fodor and his international research group did five years ago with their extensive calculation of the strength of the magnetic field around the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron. At the time, their finding was the first to close the gap between theory and experimental measurements, bringing it in line with the Standard Model, the well-tested physics theory that has guided particle physics for decades. ... Read full Story