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Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the World or Making It Better?

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The mRNA Vaccine That Tricked Cancer Into Letting Its Guard Down

The potential pathways between the MODERN diet and ACD linking brain structure, metabolism, inflammation and proteomic signature. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02255-w

This AI-Designed Diet Could Be the Key to Preventing Dementia

From seaweed to structural material: A seaweed called Ulva (righthand petri dish) is dried (center), powdered (left) and then mixed directly in with traditional cement (beaker). The darker cement cube (top center) contains 5% seaweed by weight. Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington

The Secret Ingredient from the Ocean That Could Fix Cement’s Dirty Problem

Deep Beneath the Pacific the Ocean Gave Up a Megalodon’s Secret

Rosenberg goanna (Varanus rosenbergi WAM R95408) with osteoderms and endoskeleton revealed in the left half. Credit: Roy Ebel

Scientists Uncover Bone-Deep Secrets in Australia’s Iconic Lizards

Schematic illustration of synthetic antiferromagnet, two oscillation modes (optical and acoustic modes), and non-linear magnon coupling of two modes (three magnon mixing) resulting in the Rabi-like splitting. Blue arrows represent magnetization vectors (m1,2) and red arrows their net vectors. Credit A. Sud et al.

The Mysterious Spin Ballet Inside Synthetic Antiferromagnets

The study demonstrates two strategies, phosphorylation of αs1-casein using Bacillus subtilis kinases and phosphomimetic substitution of αs1-casein. Credit: Trends in Biotechnology (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.05.015

The Milk of the Future Is Coming from Bacteria Not Cows

Satellite image of rapidly deepening blizzard off the northeastern United States on January 4, 2018. Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nor’easters Are Striking Less Often but With Deadlier Force

Figure 1. A snapshot of simulated climate conditions. Blue/red shading: sea surface temperature deviations from zonal mean; gray/white shading: low clouds; green/pink shading: 10m wind speed; blue/yellow shading in upper panels: hurricane precipitation. The figure illustrates the ubiquity of mesoscale climate phenomena, such as Tropical Instability Waves in the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific, hurricanes (making landfall in Hawaiʻi in this snapshot), ocean cold wakes generated by hurricanes, stratocumulus cloud decks and patchy day-time convection over the Amazon forest. Credit: Earth System Dynamics (2025). DOI: 10.5194/esd-16-1103-2025

The Earth Is Heating Unevenly and Now We Can Finally See It

Graphical abstract Credit: One Earth (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101358

The Hidden Crisis No One Sees Is Earth Slowly Falling Apart

$Schematic for redox chemistry driven by mechanical processes in the deep subsurface on rocky planets. (A) The formation of habitable environments in the subsurface as silicate crusts are reworked by various geological processes such as crust deformation, plate tectonics and mantle plumes. (B) Microbes utilize the energy and electrons for cell growth and division in fracture systems where redox gradients exist. (C) Mineral-water reactions convert mechanical energy to chemical energy and drive iron redox cycling in the deep biosphere. Credit: Dr. Wu Xiao$