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Left: visualization of a spacetime-crystel. Right: a cubic crystal structure

The Mathematics That Turns Spacetime Into a Crystal, Then a Black Hole

Colourful overlapping silhouettes of people voting in USA elections

Losing an Election Hurts. It Rarely Turns Voters Against Democracy.

Study participants collected data about their moods and daily habits using a smartwatch and a phone app. Photo credit: iStock/BongkarnThanyakij

Machine Learning Matched the Right Lifestyle Fix to Each Depressed Patient, Doubling Remission Rates

Researchers work at a sampling site for a study of the prevalance of hantavirus among rodents on the Palouse. (Pilar Fernandez/WSU)

Nearly a Third of Rodents in the Pacific Northwest Carry Hantavirus Antibodies

Immunofluorescence image of human donor pancreas with a precursor lesion lined by epithelial cells surrounded by fibroblasts.

Hidden Firewall Keeps Pancreatic Precancers in Check

t rex at grocery

T. Rex Had Tiny Arms Because Its Head Got Too Good at Killing

old man

How the Age You First Had Sex Could Shape How You Age Decades Later

waste water processor

Sewage Is Spotting a Deadly Fungus Before Patients Fall Ill

hand holding a vitamin C capsule

Timing Your Vitamin C Could Blunt a Cancer Risk Hidden in Your Dinner

students eating lunch

Free School Lunches Cut Student Suspensions, and the Effect Is Biggest Where You’d Least Expect It

Laboratory experiment demonstrating the proof of principle of the new technology. A mixed reflectance scene is scanned with a laser scanner (left). After computational separation of matte and specular scene parts, the 3D shape of the matte parts is evaluated directly, and the specular parts are evaluated via the reflection signal from the matte parts, effectively turning them into a large virtual screen for the specular measurement (right).

How Turning a Room Into a Giant Screen Gives Machines the 3D Vision They’ve Always Lacked

Dr. Nicolas Bourgon preparing samples for zinc stable isotope analysis using a Thermo Scientific Neptune MC-ICP-MS, used to measure isotopic compositions in this

Ancient Rainforest Foragers Were Eating More Plants Than Anyone Realised

A study of nearly 400 children found that when mothers strongly disapprove of a child’s friends, those friendships are more likely to collapse as trust, closeness and support begin to erode.

Why Mums Are Such Effective Friendship Killers

This photo shows different parts of the (sometimes not-so-blue) blue button: the chitinous float; the mantle; gonozooids, responsible for reproduction; and the dactylozooids, which catch food and defend. Unseen at the center is the gastrozooid, which digests food to provide nutrients to the whole colony.

Tiny Ocean Drifter May Spend Half a Decade at Sea

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