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Biodiversity Risks to Persist Well Beyond Future Global Temperature Peak

Even if global temperatures begin to decline after peaking this century because of climate change

Dexterous Robotic Hands Manipulate Thousands of Objects with Ease

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.

Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight

Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.

Quantum Sensor Can Detect Electromagnetic Signals of Any Frequency

MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for quantum computing and biological sensing.

MIT Engineers Devise a Recipe for Improving Any Autonomous Robotic System

A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.

Vitamins, Supplements Are a ‘Waste of Money’ for Most Americans

There’s no ‘magic set of pills to keep you healthy.’ Diet and exercise are key.

AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages

Breakthrough offers possible clues to diagnosis, understanding of condition

Flawed Research Not Retracted Fast Enough to Prevent Spread of Misinformation, Study Finds

Could Twitter discourse function as a “red flag” system for problematic research?

Wandering Star Disrupts Stellar Nursery

Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems

Plant Virus Plus Immune Cell-Activating Antibody Clear Colon Cancer in Mice, Prevent Recurrence

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.

COVID-19 Rebound After Taking Paxlovid Likely Due to Insufficient Drug Exposure

Paxlovid rebound patient did not show drug resistance or impaired immunity; UC San Diego study suggests insufficient drug exposure was most likely cause

UCLA Surgeons Develop New Technique to Reduce Adam’s Apple Without Neck Scar

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.

Pregnant Moms and Depression: Study Links Rising Symptoms to Kids’ Behavioral Issues

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.

UCLA Study Identifies How the Brain Links Memories

Findings suggest HIV drug could combat middle-age memory loss

UCLA-Developed Technology Enables Single-Cell Sorting by Function

Advance has implications for drug development and biological research

Discovery of Lonely Tortoise Doubles Known Members of Galapagos Species

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.

Studying Schizophrenia in Plants? Yale Researchers Are Giving It a Shot

What if scientists could study human psychiatric illness in plants?

In Colorful Avian World, Hummingbirds Rule

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.

The Heat Is On: Weizmann Institute Scientists Uncover Traces of Fire Dating Back At Least 800,000 Years

Using advanced AI techniques, the researchers discover one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the use of fire