The AI-based program AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure with remarkable accuracy. However, it tends to reduce heterogeneous structures to a single dom…

Researchers have discovered that beneficial soil bacteria give plants an unexpected survival advantage in salty soils. Instead of helping plants keep salt out,…

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity sce…

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation have developed an injectable hydrogel, a water-based gel material, made from silk proteins and …

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of observations from the Dark Energy …

The study, by researchers Chase Foster (King's College London) and Jeffry Frieden (Columbia University), analyzed 134 national elections in 16 countries betwee…

AI models could use 85–134 terawatt-hours yearly by 2027, risking massive energy and carbon costs. Researchers are racing to cut energy use through better hard…

Soil tests after Los Angeles’s 2025 wildfires found uneven, potentially hazardous lead and arsenic levels in burned-home areas, with some yards far more contam…

Researchers found that small, prosocial lies in relationships can temporarily help but often harm long-term trust, while serious deception like affairs or hidd…

Aging activates stem cells that increase abdominal fat cell production, explaining midlife weight gain. Blocking these stem cells could prevent obesity-related…

Researchers rewired inactive protein shells into functional enzymes by inserting short catalytic loops, enabling faster, cheaper enzyme design for green chemis…