The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Participants Participants in our experiment were recruited by YouGov—a professional online polling firm with a large panel of…
Flexoelectric domain walls enable charge separation and transport in cubic perovskites
Birefringence in cubic MAPbBr3 Our investigation begins with the observation of an unexpected optical anisotropy in the room-temperature…
Detecting genuine multipartite entanglement in multi-qubit devices with restricted measurements
Background and notation Let us first state some definitions from graph theory that are relevant for this paper.…
Brain differences between sexes get more pronounced from puberty
Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Some sex differences in brain-connectivity patterns become more pronounced with age, according to new research.…
Can consciousness ever be understood — this side of death?
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness Michael Pollan Penguin (2026) Humans and other animals have subjective inner…
Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection
When people breathe, speak, sing or clear their throats, their bodies are in constant motion. Air flowing through…
Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
The NIAID funds high-containment biosafety level-4 laboratories, in which research on highly infectious and deadly viruses is performed.…
Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding
Many funding proposals submitted to the US National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation are written with…
How some COVID vaccines triggered rare blood-clot disorder
Many countries changed their advice about who should have the AstraZeneca vaccine (pictured) following reports it could trigger…
Exercise rewires the brain — boosting the body’s endurance
Certain neurons in mice become more easily activated after multiple exercise sessions, a study has found.Credit: Dr Gopal…