Social Sciences
Aug 6, 2025
Why do children take things so literally?
"I love you so much I could eat you up," a mother might say to her child.
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Polymers
Aug 6, 2025
Immovable rubber ducks demonstrate highest-performing underwater adhesive hydrogel polymer
Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to contact lenses. Intrinsic to hydrogels is the ability to endow diverse characteristics ...
Ecology
Aug 6, 2025
AI is fast-tracking climate research
Artificial intelligence is giving some climate research projects a much-needed boost at a time of worsening extreme weather and funding cuts that threaten science in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2025
Researchers digitize pollen from 18,000 plant species
A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than 18,000 plant species from the tropics. The work is published in the journal PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET.
Ecology
Aug 6, 2025
Growing shade trees can cut chocolate's environmental impact
University of Queensland research shows emissions from the global chocolate industry could be reduced by growing more shade trees over farms in the region that supplies 60% of the world's cocoa.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 5, 2025
Long non-coding RNAs reveal an unexpected way to regulate gene expression
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are a type of RNA molecule that do not carry instructions to make proteins. Instead, they influence how other genes are expressed. There are tens of thousands of lncRNAs in the human body, many ...
Mathematics
Aug 5, 2025
Scientists find 'speed limit' for innovation networks to prevent system collapse
Research shows that while connections between innovations speed discovery, they also sharply increase the risk of total system collapse—with the sweet spot for sustainable innovation proving surprisingly narrow.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 5, 2025
Scientists map root-released molecules to guide development of hardier bioenergy crops
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted a meticulous analysis of the compounds released by plant roots into their surrounding environment. The analysis yielded an abundance of data ...
Biochemistry
Aug 5, 2025
Machine learning model helps scientists understand deadly cone snail toxins
Marine cone snails are host to a family of dangerous neurotoxins. Very little is known about how those toxins interact with the human body, making this an area of interest for medical drug research and an area of concern ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2025
AI shows researchers that pollution increases may be more likely following natural hazards
Concern over pollution and its impact on weather patterns continues to increase—but what if severe weather events are also impacting pollution?
