Do hot baths improve endurance? Will creatine bolster your brain power? Does pickle juice prevent cramp? Here’s what we learned about living well this year

Numerous social movements (SMs) around the world help support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Understanding how key events shape SMs is key to the achievement of the SDGs. We have devel...

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from text generators into powerful problem solvers. Yet, many open tasks demand critical thinking, multi-source, and verifiable outputs, which are bey...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a fi...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Today: Latest Dec. 17, 2025 Updates Ahead of Its Dec. 19 Earth Flyby - TechStock²

The role of psychological strengths in positive life outcomes in adults with ADHD - Volume 55

The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world

Boron isotopes in cold-water corals reveal that acidification in the California Current and Salish Sea has outpaced atmospheric CO2 over the industrial era, posing a threat to ecosystems of ecological...

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified mo...

Quantum-dot-based single photon sources represent a promising resource for future quantum networks. Here, the authors realize all-photonic quantum teleportation using photons from two remote near-infr...

AI is changing how investors and startups bring their products to market. Three experts offered their insights at TechCrunch Disrupt.

What makes up the figure of the ‘modern slave’ and why does it appear so regularly in discussions over both climate change and migration? In this conversation, ...

The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

A 20-year project in Bangladesh reveals that lowering arsenic levels in drinking water can slash death rates from major chronic diseases. Participants who switched to safer wells had the same risk lev...

In this study, we investigate the PFOA removal capabilities of Rhodopseudomonas palustris (R. palustris), a fluoroacetate dehalogenase containing microbe, as a potential candidate for achieving biorem...

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

The kinase ZAK is activated at collided ribosomes to mediate the ribotoxic stress response.

Migration has long been a focal point of sociological inquiry, with scholars always seeking to understand the forces driving human mobility. Everett Lee's push-pull theory is a comprehensive theory ap...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing the entire repair sequence as it unfolds. Instead of freezing cells at diff...

Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Bedrohungen, Angriffe und Gewalt gegen PolitikerInnen, verschiedene AmtsträgerInnen, JournalistInnen und Lehrkräfte an Schulen und Universitäten. Neben den historischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Hintergründen und Ursachen von Bedrohungen und Gewalt werden in empirischen Untersuchungen konkrete Felder von Bedrohung analysiert sowie Täterstrukturen und -kontexte rekonstruiert. 

This study investigated gender bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) within the context of parenting responsibility attribution, focusing on whether LLMs implicitly reinforce the ideology of “intensive...

A growing bulk of research examines intergenerational shifts in attitudes and the extent to which they are attributable to new cohorts of voters being socialised under different socioeconomic and cult...