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All the news and science from the 2025 Nobel prizes – podcast #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

All the news and science from the 2025 Nobel prizes – podcast

This year’s Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine have celebrated work that paves the way for the next generation of quantum technology, the creation of porous materials that...

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Blackcurrant juice increases blood flow in the brain’s prefrontal cortex #Science #HealthandMedicine #Nutrition #BlackcurrantJuice #BrainHealth #NutritionResearch

Blackcurrant juice increases blood flow in the brain’s prefrontal cortex

A new study published in Nutritional Neuroscience provides evidence that drinking blackcurrant juice may increase blood flow in the brain’s frontal regions during both rest and mental effort. The study,...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 44m

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #AIrelationships #TeenTechnology #DigitalRomance

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

Ancient Egypt's Karnak Temple Once Rose from the Nile River, Serving as a Tribute to Deities #Science #Culture #KarnakTemple #AncientEgypt #CulturalHeritage

Ancient Egypt's Karnak Temple Once Rose from the Nile River, Serving as a Tribute to Deities

Learn about the history of Karnak, an ancient Egyptian temple complex that was likely positioned on an island as a way to appease the gods.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

Building ordered polymers with metal #Science #Chemistry #MaterialsChemistry #polymers #materials #chemistry

Building ordered polymers with metal

The polymers around us are basically a disordered mess, with long chains of atoms tangled around each other. But starting around 1990, chemists began developing techniques that allow us to build polymers...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

Yes, your dog could really be addicted to their ball, says new study #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #DogAddiction #PetBehavior #AnimalStudies

Yes, your dog could really be addicted to their ball, says new study

Dogs love their toys, but can they love them too much? According to a new study, yes – our canine companions’ playful spirit can sometimes take a dark turn, leaving them addicted to their toys. Recently...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

JWST May Have Discovered a New Kind of Star Powered by Dark Matter #Science #Space #Astrophysics #JWST #DarkMatter

JWST May Have Discovered a New Kind of Star Powered by Dark Matter

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s earliest stars...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

Tiny Gold Carriers Deliver Lithium Directly to Brain #Science #Biology #Neurobiology #LithiumDelivery #Nanotechnology

Tiny Gold Carriers Deliver Lithium Directly to Brain

All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex #Science #Biology #MolecularBiology #DNA #ComplexLife #Evolution

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex

For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the marine creatures called cnidarians and ctenophores is not the peculiar spelling of their names, nor the fact that they tend to be beautiful, but...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

AI Scans Tongue Color to Predict Diseases #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #AI #DiseasePrediction #HealthTech

AI Scans Tongue Color to Predict Diseases

Inspired by principles from traditional Chinese medicine, researchers used AI to analyze tongue color as a diagnostic tool—with more than 96 percent accuracy

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

Your Phone’s GPS Could Soon Navigate Like a Self-Driving Car #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #GPS #SelfDrivingCars #Navigation

Your Phone’s GPS Could Soon Navigate Like a Self-Driving Car

All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive? #Science #HealthandMedicine #Nutrition #UltraprocessedFoods #FoodAddiction #NutritionResearch

Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

Ultraprocessed foods can create powerful pulls similar to those of alcohol, nicotine or opioids, with worrisome consequences for our health.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #CarbonRemoval #AIToys #TechNews

The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Trump administration may cut funding for two major direct-air...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

4 Plane Failures That Are More Common – And Less Dangerous – Than You Think #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

4 Plane Failures That Are More Common – And Less Dangerous – Than You Think

Keep calm.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks #Science #Chemistry #MaterialsChemistry #NobelPrize2025 #MetalOrganicFrameworks #ScientificInnovation

2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

Open Source Mega-Constellations Could Solve Overcrowding #Science #Space #SpaceTechnology #MegaConstellations #OpenSource #SpaceInnovation

Open Source Mega-Constellations Could Solve Overcrowding

Duplicating expensive resources is expensive and wasteful, and most people would agree it's unnecessary. However, the planned increase in major satellite constellations is currently causing a massive...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials #Science #Chemistry #MaterialsChemistry #NobelPrize2023 #PorousMaterials

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery The Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

New qubit tech traps single electrons on liquid helium #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #qubit #quantumtechnology #liquidhelium

New qubit tech traps single electrons on liquid helium

By now, a handful of technologies are leading contenders for producing a useful quantum computer. Companies have used them to build machines with dozens to hundreds of qubits, the error rates are coming...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

High-Tech Lollipops That Detect Disease #Science #HealthandMedicine #MedicalTechnology #HealthTech #DiseaseDetection #Innovation

High-Tech Lollipops That Detect Disease

Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Ashleigh Theberge has a lot of questions. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a strong interest in the natural world and why...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

A rare comet from beyond our solar system is being closely tracked – what can it teach us? #Science #Space #Astronomy #comet #spaceexploration #astronomy

A rare comet from beyond our solar system is being closely tracked – what can it teach us?

3I/Atlas is only the third interstellar comet to be seen and contains material from other star systems that can be observed closeup You wait ages for an interstellar comet to arrive and then three come...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

Scientists Find Hidden Switch Controlling Hunger #Science #HealthandMedicine #Nutrition #HungerControl #NutritionResearch #HealthScience

Scientists Find Hidden Switch Controlling Hunger

Scientists have discovered a hidden mechanism in the brain that helps control hunger. A small protein called MRAP2 was found to act like a guide, helping a key hunger receptor reach the cell surface where...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

MIT and Harvard Build “Invisible” Immune Cells That Obliterate Cancer #Science #HealthandMedicine #Oncology #CancerResearch #ImmuneTherapy #InnovativeTechnology

MIT and Harvard Build “Invisible” Immune Cells That Obliterate Cancer

MIT and Harvard scientists have created engineered CAR-NK cells that can hide from the immune system and more effectively destroy cancer. The cells are designed to suppress immune-rejection signals and...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as legend held, researcher says #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #PolarExploration #Endurance #ResearchFindings

Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as legend held, researcher says

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was ill-equipped for the voyage and Shackleton was aware. (Image...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

Positive porn attitudes linked to better sexual well-being in young women #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #SexualWellbeing #PositiveAttitudes #YoungWomen

Positive porn attitudes linked to better sexual well-being in young women

Young women who view pornography positively may be more likely to report higher sexual satisfaction and comfort with their sexuality, according to findings published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy....

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 9h

Does Running on All Fours Promote Fitness? Here's The Science on 'Quadrobics'. #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #FitnessResearch #Quadrobics #HealthScience

Does Running on All Fours Promote Fitness? Here's The Science on 'Quadrobics'.

It's a thing.

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