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To improve visualization, optimal values of ΔFC strength have been projected on brain surface. It is possible to notice the consistency of the opposite changes, with the majority of areas shifting in the same direction within each condition as compared with controls. Credit: Nature Mental Health (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44220-025-00394-7

Brain Study Reveals Why Psychosis Sometimes Disappears

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How AI Can Help in Disaster Prediction and Response

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What Are AI Hallucinations and Why Do They Happen?

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Farmers Boost Yields

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The Role of AI in Drug Discovery and Development

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The Dark Side of AI: Bias, Surveillance, and Control

Visualization of collision detection outcomes in the NuBDeC simulation. Box (a) and (b) host the green and the purple triangles, respectively, and the pink triangles span across the boundaries of the two boxes. Credit: Computer Physics Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109490

Gaming Technology Helps Accelerate Collision Detection in Fusion Reactors

Laser-driven magnetized collisionless shock experiments. Credit: Hui-bo Tang et al.

Chinese Researchers Recreate Cosmic Shockwaves to Unlock the Secrets of Particle Acceleration

Examples of intracellular Phollow phage organization (a-b) Z-projected images of bacterial cells harboring viral foci. Images highlight two patterns of virion organization throughout the intracellular space: (a) a scattered distribution and (b) a serpentine pattern with the presence of ribbon structures. Images are pseudo-colored according to z-depth, representing a total of 1.36 μm. A white dashed line marks the cell perimeter. Credit: Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-025-01981-1

Scientists Watch Viruses Hunt Bacteria in Real Time Using New Imaging Breakthrough

Establishment of whole-body regeneration competence during S. polychroa development. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.065

Flatworms Unveil Secrets of Whole-Body Regeneration

Artist's illustration of Individual 8A2, a mature adult woman, engaged in high-mobility activities such as herding while carrying an infant in a basket using a tumpline, a few years before being interred in the Abu Fatima necropolis. Credit: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101652

3,500-Year-Old Skeletons Expose Gendered Labor Practices in Bronze Age Nubia

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Astronomers Discover Sub-Neptune Exoplanet Orbiting a Sunlike Star

Punic Necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza. The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. Credit: Raymar, MAEF

Ancient DNA Reveals the True Origins of the Punic People

Pottery from FV 139 B - bottom of layer 1 (0–10 cm). Credit: P. Muntowski and M. Jórdeczka in Radiocarbon (2025) DOI:10.1017/RDC.2025.4

Hunter Gatherers in Ancient Mongolia Were Making Pottery Earlier Than Believed

Time and space rethought: A new look at these old dimensions in physics opens doors to new phenomena, such as so-called space-time-topological events, and their technological applications. Credit: A. Szameit/ Universität Rostock

Light Appears from Nothing as Scientists Rethink Time Itself

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AI vs Human Intelligence: What’s the Difference?

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Can AI Be Conscious? A Look at Sentient Machines

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How AI Is Being Used in Education to Personalize Learning

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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: What We Must Consider

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How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Are Reshaping Communication

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The Role of AI in Everyday Life You Didn’t Know About

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The Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence

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The Future of AI: What to Expect in the Next Decade

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The Future of AI in Predicting and Preventing Diseases

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New Palatable Diet Rebalances Gut Microbiome and Relieves SIBO and IMO Symptoms

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New Study Finds Cannabis Effective for Treating Cancer and Managing Symptoms

Remains of a large Neolithic settlement on alluvial soil in the Motza Valley. Credit: Amos Frumkin

Fire and Soil Changes May Have Sparked the Birth of Farming

Multi-gem jewelry from Ephesus, left (Pülz 2020, color pl. 26, cat. no. S184, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), and Hoxne, right (credit to The Trustees of the British Museum [used online under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license]). Credit: Journal of Roman Archaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S1047759424000278

New Research Suggests Pagan Cults Endured in Thetford Until Fifth Century

The Malus evolutionary landscape based on phylogenomics. Credit: Nature Genetics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02166-6

New Study Reveals the 60 Million Year Evolutionary Journey of Apples

Filament of new cable bacteria species. Credit: Cheng Li

Electrifying Discovery: Scientists Unveil a New Bacterial Species That Acts Like Living Wiring