Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Bodies in fashion: Diversity is up, but the ideal stays the same
Fashion and media have become visibly more diverse over the past quarter-century. Yet beneath that surface change, a new study suggests that the industry's cent...
AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The q...
Sequential antibiotic strategy can weaken dangerous pathogens
A research team from Kiel University has demonstrated which specific cellular mechanisms lead to the targeted weakening of bacterial pathogens, thereby increasi...
Agentic AI could help electron microscopes plan, adapt and analyze experiments
Scientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. The most robust experimental p...
Better protecting consumers against fake reviews with a new training method
Online reviews play an important role in consumers' purchasing decisions. Yet many consumers struggle to recognize fake reviews, even though these are specifica...
Using pulsars as ultra-precise gravitational probes to 'weigh' neighboring galaxies
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring t...
AI will not take your job, it can transform it—but only if you trust it, says researcher
The rise of generative AI has sparked widespread concern about job security and the future of human work. In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaas...
Coral refuges in Western Australia resist 2025 bleaching through record marine heat
The team of scientists from James Cook University, University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University surveyed coral reefs in the West Australian Houtma...
Chimpanzees' unusually protracted and vulnerable adolescences
For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty...
Hidden for 100 years, bright pink shrub identified as new Australian species
Botanists at the University of New England (UNE) have formally described a new plant species endemic to northeastern New South Wales (NSW), ending more than a c...
Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it
In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging—ope...
Q&A: What can plant evolution teach people about breeding better crops?
Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or...