1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1301+ words) Ohio State researchers found that low-intensity electric fields reduced tumor growth and lung spread in models of triple-negative breast cancer. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A gentle electric field may one day help fight one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1408+ words) Hebrew University researchers found that tomato drought resilience may depend on when plants use water, not just how much. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Tomato plants may hold one of their best drought defenses in a daily rhythm. New research from the Hebrew…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (828+ words) Electronic voting promises convenience, speed and easier participation, but it carries a fundamental problem: someone or something normally has to be trusted with the ballots. Two independent physics experiments have now demonstrated another possibility. Instead of trusting a central server…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1235+ words) A new framework shows how the arrow of time can emerge from interacting systems, with pairs of retinal neurons providing most irreversibility. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) A shattered glass can fall apart, but its pieces do not spontaneously leap…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1240+ words) A climate model suggests bright salt crystals on frozen oceans may have amplified cooling during Earth’s Snowball episodes. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Earth's descent into one of the most extreme climates in its history may have received an unexpected boost from ordinary…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1183+ words) A new interferometer directly measured the quantum phase of free fall, matching a prediction tied to Einstein’s equivalence principle. (CREDIT: Or Dobkowski / AI-enhanced) A cloud of ultracold atoms has provided a new experimental connection between two theories that physicists still…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1208+ words) Nanoscale imaging shows ice can form across flat microcline surfaces without relying only on cracks or step edges. (CREDIT: Bielefeld University/Magnus Krenz) A mineral surface does not always need a crack, pore or other obvious defect to help ice…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (794+ words) A tiny piece of protein that first appeared in early placental mammals has spent roughly 160 million years changing its ability to attack bacteria. By rebuilding extinct versions, scientists have now watched that immune defense develop step by step. Researchers at…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (899+ words) Information fills hard drives, crosses computer networks and describes the properties of physical systems. One physicist argues it may also have something far more surprising: measurable mass. Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth has proposed an experiment designed…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1005+ words) A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has developed an implantable, battery-free pacemaker that’s charged by a patient’s heartbeat. (CREDIT: UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health) A pacemaker inside the heart has very little room for anything extra. Yet…...