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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 8-Sep-2025 19:11 ET (8-Sep-2025 23:11 GMT/UTC)
‘Artificial cartilage’ could improve arthritis treatment
University of Cambridge
Artificial intelligence assessment indicates stress levels in farmed Amazonian fish
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
The salmon superfood you’ve never heard of
Northern Arizona University
A new bystander effect? Aggression can be contagious when observing it in peers.
Society for Neuroscience
Do you see what I see? People share brain responses for colors.
Society for Neuroscience
New light-based chip boosts power efficiency of AI tasks 100 fold
SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Corporate reports miss the mark on ocean health
Stanford University
New light-based chip boosts power efficiency of AI tasks 100 fold
University of Florida
‘Re-entrant’ mixing behavior in organic solar cells necessitates new modeling approach
North Carolina State University
New research highlights critical role of movement in lifelong bone health
International Osteoporosis Foundation
Suite of models shows some positive effects of climate-smart Ag practices
North Carolina State University
New and simple detection method for nanoplastics.
Universitaet Stuttgart
Ocean warming puts vital marine microbe Prochlorococcus at risk
University of Washington