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Condensed Matter Apr 7, 2025

Making the physics of glass more transparent

For centuries, humans have made use of glass in their art, tools, and technology. Despite the ubiquity of this material, however, many of its microscopic properties are not well understood, and it continues to defy conventional ...

Condensed Matter Apr 7, 2025

Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists uncover a metallic altermagnet with d-wave spin splitting at room temperature

For many years, physics studies focused on two main types of magnetism, namely ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The first type entails the alignment of electron spins in the same direction, while the latter entails ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 3, 2025

Exploring Titan's icy hydrocarbon cycle

Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the objects in the solar system, they're the only two with liquids on their surfaces. There are parallels ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 3, 2025

3D-printed skin imitation equipped with living cells could replace animal testing

Directive 2010/63/EU laid down restrictions on animal testing for the testing of cosmetics and their ingredients throughout the EU. Therefore, there is an intense search for alternatives to test the absorption and toxicity ...

Social Sciences Apr 2, 2025

US textbooks portray Asians in a limited and negative light, new study shows

An AI-driven analysis of widely used textbooks found that only 1% of sentences contained any mention of Asians or Asian Americans—and most of the references were related to war and foreign affairs rather than contributions ...

Archaeology Apr 2, 2025

Study uncovers mercury treatment in 19th-century French child suffering from rickets and scurvy

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered from rickets and scurvy ...

Astrobiology Apr 1, 2025

How can we find cryovolcanoes on Europa?

In the 1970s, NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints that a global ...

Evolution Mar 31, 2025

Biomechanical 'size matching' explains floral isolation in bumblebee-pollinated elephant-nose flowers

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among the most specialized examples are the wildflowers of the Pedicularis genus (Orobanchaceae), ...

Nanophysics Mar 31, 2025

Time-resolved photoluminescence unlocks nanoscale insights into surface-modified metal oxide semiconductors

In the quest for next-generation energy, sensing, and pigment technologies, semiconducting metal oxides like titanium dioxide (TiOâ‚‚) have emerged as essential materials due to their abundance, stability, and intriguing ...

Social Sciences Mar 31, 2025

Young people believe in democracy but fear for its future in UK, finds survey of youth opinion

A major new survey of young people's attitudes and priorities has found that while young people believe in democracy over dictatorship, they think that UK democracy is in trouble.

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