Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-225,500-Year-Old Ritual Landscape Discovered at MurayghatArchaeologists uncovered a 5,500-year-old Early Bronze Age ritual landscape at Murayghat in Jordan, where dolmens, standing stones, and communal artifacts reveal how ancient communities adapted to social and environmental change.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-19Argentina's Ancient Dinosaur: Huayracursor UnearthedArgentinian scientists uncovered an almost complete Huayracursor jaguensis skeleton at 3,000 m in La Rioja. Dating to 230–225 million years ago, this Triassic find sheds new light on early dinosaur evolution.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-18Why Identical Twins Can Have Large IQ Differences, ReallyA fresh reanalysis shows identical twins raised apart can exhibit large IQ gaps tied to differences in schooling, suggesting education plays a stronger role in measured intelligence than previously thought.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2025-10-17Taming Free Electrons: Quantum Crystals for TomorrowAuburn researchers propose surface-immobilized electrides—materials that control free electrons on solid surfaces—to enable tunable quantum bits and powerful catalysts, bridging theory and device-ready design.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-14Why Absolute Zero Is Unreachable: The Physics ExplainedWhy absolute zero (0 K) is fundamentally unreachable: the third law of thermodynamics, how researchers cool matter to micro- and nanokelvin, and what physicists mean by negative temperatures.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-14How Losing Shapes the Brain and Alters Social RankOkinawa researchers show that losing social contests rewires decision-making circuits in the mouse brain. The study links cholinergic interneurons in the posterior striatum to the ‘loser effect,’ with implications for social behavior and resilience.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2025-10-14Brain Shape Changes May Predict Future Dementia RiskNew UC Irvine and University of La Laguna research shows that specific 3D changes in brain shape, not just volume loss, correlate with cognitive decline and may help predict dementia risk, highlighting the entorhinal cortex's vulnerability.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2025-10-10Run Cosmological Universe Simulations on a Laptop NowEffort.jl, an EFTofLSS emulator developed at the University of Waterloo, lets researchers run accurate cosmological analyses on a standard laptop in hours, speeding model exploration for DESI, Euclid and other surveys.
