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First beta-delayed neutron emission observed in rare fluorine-25 isotope

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission from fluorine-25, a rare, unstable nuclide. Using the FRIB Decay Station Initiator (FDSi), the team found contradictions in prior experimental findings. The results led to a new…

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Monster Shocks from Collapsing Magnetars

The collapse of a magnetar into a black hole may power the strongest shocks in the universe and produce brief, bright flashes of gamma rays.
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Early motherhood comes with a wage penalty

New research finds that pregnancy during early career stages can influence women's long-term earnings and career continuity.

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Batteries lose charge when they ‘breathe’

Researchers have identified a key reason why the batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles deteriorate over time.

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The Surprising Things Scientists Are Learning About Diabetes Drugs and Cancer

Diabetes drugs may be doing more than managing blood sugar, they could also shape cancer biology in unexpected ways. New research is taking a closer look at how diabetes drugs may relate to cancer, with an emphasis on effects that go beyond lowering blood sugar or supporting weight control. Although…

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KAN-Matrix: Visualizing Nonlinear Pairwise and Multivariate Contributions for Physical Insight

arXiv:2512.15755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interpreting complex datasets remains a major challenge for scientists, particularly due to high dimensionality and collinearity among variables. We introduce a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to enhance interpretability and par…

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Kite-Borne Spectroscopic Observations of the Corona During the 2023 April 20 Total Solar Eclipse

Benedikt Justen et al 2025 ApJL 981 L12 For the first time, researchers have used a kite, soaring to a height of 450 meters, as an airborne platform to study the solar corona during a total solar eclipse.
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Researchers find sodium-ion batteries using hard carbon anodes can intrinsically charge faster

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries with hard carbon anodes can charge faster than lithium-ion batteries by using a diluted electrode method that reveals sodium insertion is intrinsically quicker than lithium.

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How Did the Dutch Become the Tallest People on Earth?

Ross Pomeroy, RCScience If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch are really tall.
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Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal on either or …

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Quantitative Verification of Fairness in Tree Ensembles

arXiv:2512.16386v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work focuses on quantitative verification of fairness in tree ensembles. Unlike traditional verification approaches that merely return a single counterexample when the fairness is violated, quantitative verification estimates the ratio of all cou…

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Earth Has Two North Poles. How Does Santa Know Which One Is Home?

No, seriously, there's some good science here.

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Rare Earth Elements – Of Peptides And The Origins Of Life

Elements from the group of rare earth metals are of great importance today, also in technical applications. The Bioinorganic Chemistry group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is conducting diverse research into these elements. The group has now published two studies in the scientific jou…

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AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds

Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.

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Proving bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation algorithm in Lean4

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Earth's Seasons Are Strangely Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space

These mismatches have surprising consequences.

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A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

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Comprehensive AI Literacy: The Case for Centering Human Agency

arXiv:2512.16656v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a dangerous litera…

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Psychedelics Research in Rodents Has a Big Problem

Calli McMurray, Transmitter For the past two and a half years, a team of five labs in the San Francisco Bay Area have endeavored to nail down how psilocybin affects the way mice...

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Spotlight on a Gage: Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont

While most USGS surface water monitoring stations are situated alongside riverbanks, some are located on the shores of much larger water bodies, like lakes, reservoirs, and bays.