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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.

Biotechnology Mar 31, 2025

Curing fashion's reliance on leather with an eco-friendly plant-based alternative

As the material left the curing oven, the Alt. Leather team knew it had worked—what they held in their hands looked and felt just like leather.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 29, 2025

Quantum entanglement reveals strange metals' unique electron behavior at critical point

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals—materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists at Rice University has made a breakthrough in this area ...

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