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Nasal spray for humans may help dogs during surgery
Dr. Jun-Yan Sek, a small-animal surgical registrar at JCUVet, lecturer at James Cook University and JCU veterinary alumnus, led a study investigating the use of xylometazoline hyd…
What's keeping schoolchildren from eating local foods?
To get locally grown food onto a schoolchild's lunch tray, communities need supply chains that sort, process and package local farm products. They don't always exist.
Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival
On Sept. 12-13, NASA’s Johnson Space Center employees brought the excitement and wonder of space exploration to Houston’s Japan Festival at Hermann Park. For more than 30 years, …
Weatherwatch: wildfires driven by global heating destroy UK bird habitats
Hot and dry summer created conditions for fires in Scotland and England that tore through vital wildlife areasMajor wildfires this summer in the Cairngorms, along the Suffolk coas…
How Florida Ties Localities’ Hands on Everything from Environmental Regulation to Worker Protections
Florida’s coastal residents know to brace for storm surge, but during 2024’s Hurricane Milton, it was inland communities that suffered some of the greatest flooding. It took three…
Photonic Legos of functional 3D thin-films unlock high-performance heterogeneous photonic integration
Photonic integrated circuits route information with optical signals instead of relying only on electrical currents. Silicon (Si) and silicon nitride (SiNx) are excellent photonic …
Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’
Exclusive: The tax-funded research aims to protect British wildlife from the human-caused climate crisisVaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowta…
Baby girls’ greater interest in faces offers clue to nature v nurture debate
Study finds overall differences between groups of newborns by sex that are likely to be determined by biologyThe question dates back to the first man and woman: how does the world…
Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents
Children born after 2025 will experience three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather as global heating intensifiesEuropean babies will face almost twice as much extreme fi…
Genes that help flatworms regenerate their brains revealed
The human brain is terrible at healing itself from injury or disease. But some animals can harness their own cellular abilities not only to repair injuries but also to regrow thei…
AI-powered barcode unmasks 'zombie cells' in aging tissue
As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders suc…
New Zealanders pick endangered black robin as Bird of the Year
A record number of New Zealanders turned out at the polls this month, not for national elections but to vote for their Bird of the Year—the critically endangered black robin.
Starwatch: Autumnal equinox in northern hemisphere, spring in the south
Precise moment of equinox in UK is 1.05am on Wednesday – but day and night will not be equal until FridayThe September or autumnal equinox takes place this week. It marks the astr…
APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the co…
Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off
While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around 2010.
Trump reportedly to form health funding board that could veto ‘woke’ initiatives
President’s latest order expected to bring NIH funding under control of Trump administration to align with agendaDonald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a b…
Cooling liquids reveal self-limiting particle clusters behind glass transition
Before diving into the mystery of glass, theoretical physicist Corentin Laudicina takes us back to high school physics for a moment. Although he has spent years studying exactly w…
Venus ate its moon: How Earth's 'twin' could have swallowed a rocky satellite
Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a size, mass and structure similar to Earth's, doesn't have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows that our hungry twin likely swa…
To understand the solar cycle, notice how the sun sleeps
The sun is such a constant in our lives that it can be difficult to imagine our star ever changing. But the sun can be quite variable. There are times when its magnetic field is t…
The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial
OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really isOn 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI …
Virtual cells built from 4D AI models and 'digital twins' could speed up drug discovery
Mitochondria—tiny structures that convert nutrients into energy—are often depicted as discrete kidney bean-shaped objects. But in reality, they form a dynamic, interconnected netw…
Adults with severe mental illness die 15 to 20 years earlier from diseases such as cancer
Exclusive: Stark health inequalities in terms of deaths before age of 75, NHS data revealsAdults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to d…
A fisherman was looking for salmon and sea bass in the river. He found a whale
A fisherman has the ultimate fishing tale: He spotted an adult humpback whale has in California's largest river. That's a rare sighting in those parts.
Is culture alive?
From Mozart to Madonna, dim sum to doughnuts, Shakespeare to Sartre – not all forms of life need DNAOn Mount Athos, in northern Greece, a monk rises before dawn to sing the same o…