Climate change, urbanization and pesticides imperil wild pollinators
Even if global temperatures begin to decline after peaking this century because of climate change
Model-free framework reorients over 2,000 diverse objects with a hand facing both upward and downward, in a step toward more human-like manipulation.
Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.
MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for quantum computing and biological sensing.
A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.
There’s no ‘magic set of pills to keep you healthy.’ Diet and exercise are key.
Breakthrough offers possible clues to diagnosis, understanding of condition
Could Twitter discourse function as a “red flag” system for problematic research?
Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems
A new combination therapy to combat cancer could one day consist of a plant virus and an antibody that activates the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, shows a study by researchers at the University of California San Diego.
Paxlovid rebound patient did not show drug resistance or impaired immunity; UC San Diego study suggests insufficient drug exposure was most likely cause
Doctors at the UCLA Gender Health Program have developed a technique to reduce an Adam’s apple bump without leaving a scar on the patient’s neck.
Children whose mothers experience rising levels of depression from the period before pregnancy until the months just after giving birth are at greater risk of developing emotional, social and academic problems during their youth, UCLA psychology researchers and colleagues report.
Findings suggest HIV drug could combat middle-age memory loss
Advance has implications for drug development and biological research
The discovery in 2019 of a lone small female tortoise living on one of the most inaccessible islands of the Galapagos Islands has baffled evolutionary biologists.
What if scientists could study human psychiatric illness in plants?
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in hummingbirds.
Using advanced AI techniques, the researchers discover one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the use of fire