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This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East Asian islands uncovered how its cellular machinery shrank but didn’t disappear, revealing unexpected …

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Rare Earth Elements – Of Peptides And The Origins Of Life

Elements from the group of rare earth metals are of great importance today, also in technical applications. The Bioinorganic Chemistry group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is conducting diverse research into these elements. The group has now published two studies in the scientific jou…

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Researchers Discover Compound That Could Revolutionize Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment

The research shows for the first time that this compound, which consists of four amino acids, can produce therapeutic effects in brain injuries on its own, without requiring the administration of any additional drugs. An international research collaboration led by the biotechnology company Aivocode,…

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Earth's Seasons Are Strangely Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space

These mismatches have surprising consequences.

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Proving bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation algorithm in Lean4

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AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds

Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.

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Researchers find sodium-ion batteries using hard carbon anodes can intrinsically charge faster

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries with hard carbon anodes can charge faster than lithium-ion batteries by using a diluted electrode method that reveals sodium insertion is intrinsically quicker than lithium.

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How Did the Dutch Become the Tallest People on Earth?

Ross Pomeroy, RCScience If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch are really tall.
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Psychedelics Research in Rodents Has a Big Problem

Calli McMurray, Transmitter For the past two and a half years, a team of five labs in the San Francisco Bay Area have endeavored to nail down how psilocybin affects the way mice...

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A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

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UnifyBio: Power Tools for Translational Data Science - Benjamin Kamphaus

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Spotlight on a Gage: Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont

While most USGS surface water monitoring stations are situated alongside riverbanks, some are located on the shores of much larger water bodies, like lakes, reservoirs, and bays.

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How the 'delayed choice quantum eraser' experiment got us to rethink reality

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

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KAN-Matrix: Visualizing Nonlinear Pairwise and Multivariate Contributions for Physical Insight

arXiv:2512.15755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interpreting complex datasets remains a major challenge for scientists, particularly due to high dimensionality and collinearity among variables. We introduce a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to enhance interpretability and par…

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Quantitative Verification of Fairness in Tree Ensembles

arXiv:2512.16386v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work focuses on quantitative verification of fairness in tree ensembles. Unlike traditional verification approaches that merely return a single counterexample when the fairness is violated, quantitative verification estimates the ratio of all cou…

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Earth Has Two North Poles. How Does Santa Know Which One Is Home?

No, seriously, there's some good science here.

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Comprehensive AI Literacy: The Case for Centering Human Agency

arXiv:2512.16656v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a dangerous litera…

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Investigation of Profile Shifting and Subpulse Movement in PSR J0344-0901 with FAST

H. M. Tedila et al 2024 ApJ 965 144 Researchers have identified four emission modes in PSR J0344−0901 for the first time, finding that each emission mode has its own subpulse behavior.
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How Consciousness Breaks From the Physical World

Lyu Zhou, iai Conscious experiences of change, from seeing a bird take flight to listening to a melody, cannot be broken down into ever smaller units of experience. They must inhabit what...

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A Survey of Cassini Images of Spokes in Saturn’s Rings: Unusual Spoke Types and Seasonal Trends

S. R. Callos et al 2025 Planet. Sci. J. 6 17 Particle clouds called spokes in the outer parts of Saturn’s rings show a variety of intriguing behaviors, including seasonal variations and switching from appearing darker and lighter than the ring material.
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