Daily multivitamin slows signs of biological ageing The supplement’s anti-ageing effect was greater in people who were already biologically older than their years.

Daily multivitamin slows signs of biological ageing

The supplement’s anti-ageing effect was greater in people who were already biologically older than their years.

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Hypocrisy and intolerance drive religious doubt among college students

Across the board, the behavior of religious individuals proved to be a major stumbling block for the undergraduate population.

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A new way to deliver antibodies could make treatment much easier for patients MIT engineers discovered a way to make solid particles of highly concentrated antibodies, suspended in a solution. The advance represents a major step toward re-formulating antibodies so that they can...

Reformulating antibodies so that they can be injected using a standard syringe could reduce the need for infusions.

The researchers found a way to create solid particles of highly concentrated antibodies, suspended in a solution.

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A luminous breakthrough for quantum photonics In a landmark advancement, researchers observe a quantized Hall drift of light for the first time.

Quantum photonics breakthrough - researchers observe a quantized Hall drift of light for the first time.

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A study of left-wing and right-wing political supporters in Germany found that metacognitive training designed to reduce overconfidence and challenge cognitive biases
—successfully reduced hostile attitudes toward opposing political groups

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Liquid crystal phase in antiferromagnets can be detected electrically The best candidate for next-generation magnetic devices—technology that can power, store, sense or transport information—may be, counterintuitively, antiferromagnets. Today, the most widely used magne...

A liquid-crystal phase in antiferromagnets can be electrically detected, enabling a diode-like resistance that switches with current and magnetic field direction

"The antiferromagnets we work with possess a fundamentally different symmetry from conventional ferromagnets"

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Muscular Strength and Mortality in Women Aged 63 to 99 Years This cohort study evaluates associations between muscular strength and mortality in women aged 63 to 99 years accounting for accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior, systemic i...

Study: Being stronger means you’re likely to live longer

"Strength turned out to be a key — and singular — contributor to longer lives, he said, reducing the risk for early death by a third or more"

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The Age Verification Trap Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?

The Age Verification Trap

Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

Age-restriction laws push platforms toward intrusive verification systems that often directly conflict with modern data-privacy law.

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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.

James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus

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Egg Consumption and Human Health: A Comprehensive Review of the Effects on Serum Lipids, Antioxidant Status, and Cardiovascular Outcomes

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Unpacking the complexities of consciousness: Theories and reflections As the field of consciousness science matures, the research agenda has expanded from an initial focus on the neural correlates of consciousness, to de…

Unpacking the complexities of consciousness: Theories and reflections on the five theories of consciousness.

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How Will the Spatial Web Transform the Physical World? The Spatial Web's HSML and HSTP standards offer a new way for autonomous vehicles to communicate and coordinate in real-time.

Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything The Spatial Web standard connects devices, robots, and AI agents

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Resilient nylon-11 film generates electricity from pressure and survives repeated runovers RMIT University researchers have developed a flexible nylon-film device that generates electricity from compression and keeps working even after being run over by a car multiple times, opening the doo...

Resilient nylon-11 film generates electricity from pressure and survives repeated runovers

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The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

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nside Celljevity’s Manufacturing Marvel: From 6mm Skin Sample to 20 Billion Therapeutic Cells in 90 days for Cart-T therapy

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Researchers Achieve Sub-Zero Cooling Without Harmful Refrigerants A new elastocaloric device can freeze water using solid-state tech, offering a greener cooling solution.

Solid-State Elastocaloric Cooling Hits Sub-Zero

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

Prototype uses elastocaloric cooling to achieve -12 °C

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The aged amygdala’s unique sensitivity to refined diets, independent of fat or sugar content: A brain region and cell type-specific analysis Western-style diets, high in saturated fats and refined carbohydrates and low in dietary fiber, are strongly linked to cognitive decline, particularly…

A fiber-free processed diet rapidly impairs emotional memory in older brains by disrupting the amygdala, independent of fat or sugar content, with changes detectable after just three days.

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One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Scientists developed a universal vaccine formula that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergens.

The vaccine is delivered intranasally and provides broad protection in the lungs of mice for several months.

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Newly discovered virus linked to colorectal cancer Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified a new virus in a common gut bacterium. The virus is found significantly more often in patients with colorectal cancer.

Newly discovered virus linked to colorectal cancer: Scientists discovered a new and previously undescribed virus that infects gut bacteria in patients with colorectal cancer.

The virus is found significantly more often in patients with colorectal cancer.

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T cell nomenclature: from subsets to modules - Nature Reviews Immunology This poster provides an overview of the current subset-based nomenclature for T cells and a newly proposed modular nomenclature for T cells. It is based on the 2025 consensus statement Guidelines for ...

Recommended T cell nomenclature

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Obesity confers 70% higher risk of infection-related severe outcomes, study suggests

Study: obesity confers 70% higher risk of infection-related severe outcomes.

For many diseases, including flu, COVID-19, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infection, obese people were more likely to be hospitalized or die than those with a healthy BMI

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Large Language Model Reasoning Failures

"... unless we start measuring how models fail not just how often they succeed we’ll keep deploying systems that pass benchmarks, fail silently in production, and explain themselves with confidence while doing the wrong thing."

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Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human eva...

A paper in Nature presents OpenScholar, an open-source language model that can outperform commercial large language models (LLMs) in performing accurate literature reviews.

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The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage Removal of SNO groups from hepatocyte and adipocyte proteins induces lipid synthesis and weight gain.

Researchers discover enzyme SCoR2, which promotes fat storage and lipogenesis

They found that blocking this nitric oxide-removing enzyme prevented weight gain and liver injury in mouse models. The same drug also lowered bad cholesterol.

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Study: Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food
UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco.
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Imaging the Wigner crystal state in a new type of quantum material In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons...

Sub-unit-cell resolution imaging of a Wigner crystal formed by 4f electrons in a YbCl₃ monolayer reveals a highly localized, strongly correlated electron lattice with record-high density and melting temperature.

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Research suggests that "playing the victim" does not signal weakness to voters.

Instead, politicians who emphasized their own victimhood during a scandal were often evaluated as more competent than those who did not, making it a highly attractive strategy.

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Claims of Victimhood Shield Politicians from Political Scandals Political scandals can shape entire elections and political structures within society. Scholars have long pointed to different strategies politicians use to respond to such scandals, finding strate...

Research suggests that "playing the victim" does not signal weakness to voters.

Politicians who emphasized their own victimhood during a scandal were often evaluated as more competent than those who did not.

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Imaging the Wigner crystal state in a new type of quantum material In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons...

Sub-unit-cell resolution imaging of a Wigner crystal formed by 4f electrons in a YbCl₃ monolayer reveals a highly localized, strongly correlated electron lattice with record-high density and melting temperature.

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AI and Cameras Team Up for Better Pain Detection How does a camera and heart rate data team up to estimate pain levels? Find out about this innovative approach.

Researchers have developed a contactless method that analyzes a combination of patients’ heart rate data and facial expressions to estimate the pain they’re feeling.

No more “on a scale of 1 to 10”.

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