Science & Technology

New technology uses a smartphone to analyze heart movement and detect heart failure.

The Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy descriptor system offers a promising avenue for controlling non-linear systems but lacks optimal control strategies. Moreover, while robust control methods have been developed, they add additional complexity. To address …

A new molecular test method helps to prove the authenticity of works of art. The new method could also help to make passwords secure against quantum computers.

Focusing attention on your mobile phone instead of your partner doesn’t just strain your relationship — it also affects women’s creativity in the workplace, caution researchers.

A study confirms the concerns raised in the public domain about how young people’s decreased fitness may affect their future work ability. The association of low youth cardiorespiratory fitness and adulthood decreased work ability persisted until the e…

Researchers have achieved a groundbreaking advancement in catalyst technology.

Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to improve the energy efficiency of carbon conversion, using waste material from pulp and paper production. The technique they’ve pioneered not only reduces the energy required to convert carbon into…

Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light. They describe a key molecular mechanism that synchronizes the processes involved.

Children and teens from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by persistent insomnia symptoms that begin in childhood and continue through young adulthood, according to a new study. This study is one of the first to look at …

Did you know that the world’s deadliest animal is the mosquito? And Aedes aegypti is one of the most dangerous. This bug spreads viruses that cause dengue fever, which was recently declared as an epidemic in Puerto Rico. Research reports new molecules …

A new type of investigational therapeutic for pancreatic cancer has shown unprecedented tumor-fighting abilities in preclinical models of the disease.

PFAS (aka ‘forever chemicals’) are notoriously difficult to destroy. They’ve been linked to environmental and health issues, including some cancers, but a lot remains unknown about the true scale and potential impacts of the problem — including how mu…

Linking analyses of the moon’s gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean. The process left behind a vestige of dense, titanium-ri…

Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly disappearing from the ice sheet surface due to global warmin…

Through a large-scale analysis, researchers have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person’s physical and mental wellbeing.

Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The researchers suspect that these marine worms may have a secretive language, which uses UV light only see…

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby’s brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention — and the level of this type of activity predicted enhanced language develo…

Scientists have developed an automated workflow that could accelerate the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and other useful products. The new automated approach could analyze chemical reactions in real time and identify new chemical-reaction produ…

Researchers have released Kilosort4, the newest version of a popular spike-sorting software that enables scientists to make sense of the mountains of data collected from recording the simultaneous activity of hundreds of neurons.

Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily, new study suggests.