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First beta-delayed neutron emission observed in rare fluorine-25 isotope

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission from fluorine-25, a rare, unstable nuclide. Using the FRIB Decay Station Initiator (FDSi), the team found contradictions in prior experimental findings. The results led to a new…

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Early motherhood comes with a wage penalty

New research finds that pregnancy during early career stages can influence women's long-term earnings and career continuity.

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Batteries lose charge when they ‘breathe’

Researchers have identified a key reason why the batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles deteriorate over time.

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Mathematicians don't care about foundations

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Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal on either or …

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Challenging Long-Held Theories: Evolution Isn’t One-and-Done, New Study Suggests

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All forms of life exist in environments that are constantly shifting. Seasons change, wet years follow d…

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Woodrats have a trick to protect against rattlesnake venom

New research has uncovered a clue explaining how tiny rats have evolved such potent immunity against rattlesnake venom.

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Feathered Dinosaurs That Didn’t Fly Challenge Long-Held Ideas About Wing Evolution

A rare dinosaur discovery sheds new light on the evolution of flight. Fossils of dinosaurs found with well-preserved feathers suggest that some of these animals were no longer capable of flight. The researchers explain that even a detail as subtle as how feathers are replaced can dramatically reshap…

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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