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'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded
Live Science - 23 Jul 2026 04:00
In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.
Ozempic and Mounjaro linked to a surprising hair loss risk
Science Daily - 23 Jul 2026 23:31
A large study suggests that GLP-1 drugs including Ozempic and Mounjaro may slightly increase the risk of hair loss in people with type 2 diabetes. Compared with two other common classes of diabetes medications, GLP-1 use...
New giant salamander species discovered in 3.5-million-year-old fossils
Science Daily - 23 Jul 2026 21:58
Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a warmer, wetter Kyushu a...
Study Links Acid Ceramidase to Ferroptosis and Aging
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 20:53
Researchers found that elevated acid ceramidase in senescent cells increases their susceptibility to ferroptosis and transfers this vulnerability to adjacent tissue.
OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face
Singularity Hub - 23 Jul 2026 20:48
The incident is a first and signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity. The post OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face appeared first on SingularityHub.
Engineers Redefined Light Delivery to Track Neural Firing
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 20:32
A new study introduces FlatMux, a two-photon voltage imaging platform that records electrical signals from nearly 200 neurons at up to 2,000 frames per second.
3D Genome Disruption in Alzheimers Disease
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 19:23
A new study shows that 3D genome architecture is altered in prefrontal cortex cells of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
Materials surrounding a fusion reaction can dramatically increase how often it occurs
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 18:40
Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits. The process also generates subatomic particles ...
How Midlife Systems Remodeling Reshapes the Human Hippocampus
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 18:37
A new study reveals that the human brain undergoes major shifts in 3D genome architecture and gene regulation starting in midlife.
Chocolate syrup-like fluid stores multiple interacting memories
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 17:50
Animals and electronic devices aren't the only things with memory. Materials can retain memories of past deformations in their microscopic structure. A common example is a crease in a sheet of paper that has been fol...
Study Shows Rapid Reversal of Autism Traits
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 17:38
Asingle dose of the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin rapidly reverses autism-like behaviors and abnormal brain connectivity in adult mice exposed to maternal inflammation during development.
Engineers observe quantum heat waves at room temperature
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 17:30
Efficient heat management in solids is key to advancing the next generation of electronics. However, wave-like heat movement-known as phonon focusing-had been observed only at extremely low, or cryogenic, temperatures, l...
How Time Zone Shifts Disrupt Intestinal Rhythms
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 17:15
A new study highlights "gut jet lag", the desynchronization between host biological clocks and gut microbiota rhythms during long-haul travel.
How Brain Wave Tuning Maintains Consciousness
Neuroscience News - 23 Jul 2026 16:57
Using high-density ECoG and transfer entropy, the team discovered "informational tuning," where information selectively moves along the path of cortical traveling waves.
Machine learning narrows search for additional particles in the Higgs boson family
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 16:50
What if the Higgs boson found in 2012 is not alone but is the only sibling we have encountered so far? Scientists at CERN discovered the particle that year, and it was a major discovery because it explained how other par...
Universal structure of exceptional points revealed in nonlinear lightbased systems
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 16:40
Exceptional points, or EPs for short, are among the phenomena of modern physics. These are special points or locations at which the properties of matter, space or time change. In a new theoretical study, researchers from...
Extremely basic AI prompt cracks decades-old maths problem
New Scientist - 23 Jul 2026 15:32
For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the advanced mathematical capabilities of ChatGPT and its ilk
Can sounds make plants grow bigger? A start-up says they can
New Scientist - 23 Jul 2026 15:00
Haivya has developed acoustic signals designed to influence plant development, and its trials reportedly show large yield increases in soybean, pepper and cannabis crops
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
Live Science - 23 Jul 2026 14:39
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
Quantum Newton's cradle set to level up computing
Phys.org - 23 Jul 2026 14:20
Sending quantum information through a chain of qubits, like energy through a Newton's cradle, could be the key to faster operations and take quantum computing to the next level.
'Extremely rare' Roman military camp found in Slovakia holds hastily buried remains of Marcus Aurelius' soldiers - with some dumped in wells
Live Science - 23 Jul 2026 13:45
Archaeologists found a Roman military camp in Slovakia with unusual burials of soldiers who likely fought in Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars.
Fields medal 2026: Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize
New Scientist - 23 Jul 2026 13:32
Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal