Day September 11, 2025

Parents struggle to help teens deal with online racism. Online racism is different from in-person racism because the people behaving that way usually hide behind fake names, making it hard to stop them. Studies found that teens of color see…

Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Adolescence is a period when some teenagers begin experimenting with risky or rule-breaking behaviors such as skipping school, drinking, lying, or staying out past their curfew. When parents find out, their natural response is often…

Examples of multilayered artwork by contemporary artists. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098 Artists are always looking for new ways to create and express themselves. A growing trend is the use of multiple layers of see-through materials, such…

In today’s data-driven economy, firms typically guard their data as a crown jewel of competitive advantage. But new UC Davis research suggests that under certain conditions, the smartest move may be to share that data—even with rivals. The study “The…

The Atlas blue butterfly. Credit: Dr. Roger Vila / The Institute of Evolutionary Biology The Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals in…

Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021 When starved of oxygen during a heart attack or stroke, cells unleash a flurry of emergency measures to protect themselves and the body. For decades, scientists have observed that the…

The photonic microchip (below) developed for the study on physical neural networks, along with the electronic chip (above, the yellow one) of control. Credit: Politecnico di Milano, DEIB—Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Artificial intelligence is now part of our…

Root structure of a three-week-old maize plant grown in soil. The root architecture in the pot was captured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, shown in grey). To trace the flow of photosynthetic products into the root system, radioactively labelled carbon…

First-year undergraduates who grew up with overly cautious or controlling parents tend to experience increased anxiety when faced with stresses associated with the transition to university, researchers from McGill University and the University of California (Los Angeles) have found. “Parental…

Australia and England are both multicultural countries where hundreds of languages are spoken. However, in both, levels of language learning at school are worryingly low. Australia has seen a major downturn in language learning. In 2021, fewer than 10% of…

The market for video-on-demand platforms has grown rapidly in the last decade, with nearly 90% of U.S. households subscribing to a service, and most subscribers having four or more platforms. In this context, and as more than a third of…

Stem cell-based embryo models dividing. Credit: Courtesy of M. Zernicka-Goetz Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could transform how we study fertility. Using stem cells rather than a traditional fertilized…

Specimen design and experimental test protocol. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09300-8 Steel truss bridges are a common sight on roads and railways around the world, with many dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite their high…

State school finance reforms designed to close funding gaps between high- and low-income districts did not reduce racial and ethnic funding inequities and in some cases increased them, according to new research. As school desegregation efforts slowed in the decades…

Examples of Tianshui fortresses with drone aerial records. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-05399-2 A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically mapped and analyzed the cultural…

Operational principle and thermopower of the solid-state TD-assisted TG cell. Credit: Energy & Environmental Science (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D5EE01216C A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a technological advancement that allows body heat to generate electricity sufficient to power electronic…

FabObscura is a system for creating visually dynamic physical media based on the classic barrier-grid animation technique. We introduce a novel parameterization and computational design tool for systematically designing new barrier-grid animations without domain expertise. Our abstraction is expressive enough…

Oracle shares soared on Wall Street on projections of massive revenue growth. Oracle shares surged more than 35% in early trading Wednesday after the software giant projected massive revenue growth based on contracts tied to artificial intelligence. Oracle CEO Safra…

Schematic of a monolithic 3D neural ROSE probe,with the final structure of the probe (top right), and SEM images of the ROSE probe with global and close-up views. Credit: Fang research group / Dartmouth College. To shed new light on…

Credit: Monash University Potholes could be a thing of the past, after a team of Monash engineers found a way to use smartphones to monitor roads—a cheaper, quicker alternative to Australia’s current road survey methods. The smartphone method doesn’t just…

Small business owners are more likely to identify with and vote for right-wing parties, according to a new study in the British Journal of Political Science. The research suggests it is the experience of being a small business owner that…

Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62270-3 Investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that the protein Piezo1 controls skin growth by detecting when skin is stretched and then coordinating the metabolic and immune changes necessary for growth. Experts say…

A globular cluster (white concentration of stars) naturally emerges in the high resolution EDGE simulations. These simulations also predict the existence of a new class of object: globular cluster-like dwarfs. These new objects form similarly to globular clusters but in…

Credit: Monstera Production from Pexels Hotel industry competition can be fierce in terms of owners knowing their competitors, including which ones affect their bottom line the most. Focusing on this industry, researchers from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith…

Credit: Victor Leshyk/Northern Arizona University In northern California, salmon are more than just fish—they’re a cornerstone of tribal traditions, a driver of tourism and a sign of healthy rivers. So it may not come as a surprise that NAU and…

An Arctic diatom, showing the actin filaments that run down its middle and enable its skating motion. Credit: Prakash Lab If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks…

Self-organization process in sea urchin twins. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038 Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined how twin organisms can emerge from a single fertilized egg by studying sea urchin embryos. Their findings revealed that when an…

The panel maps the known quasi-satellites within the dynamic context of the Arjuna asteroid belt: Cardea (gold point), Kamo’oalewa (red), 277810 (orange), 2013 LX28 (yellow), 2014 OL339 (violet), 2023 FW13 (pink), and 2025 PN7 (lime). The median value of ?r…

Hydrogel sample with red dye for visibility (the gels are usually colorless and completely transparent). Credit: Brett Pogostin Taking medications on time, in the right dose and for the prescribed duration can be challenging for patients, and failure to do…

Mechanism of cavitation-triggered launching and influence factors. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126 A team of scientists from China and the U.S. is pioneering the development of bubble-powered robots, which could one day replace needles for painless drug delivery into the…

Pictured above are robots, used in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, that have the potential to advance “artificial swarm intelligence”—a type of AI that mimics flocking birds and schooling fish. Credit: Luco Buise Birds flock in…

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, but for many students, it may spark anxiety that…

RoboBallet in action. Credit: Google DeepMind/UCL Scientists at UCL, Google DeepMind and Intrinsic have developed a powerful new AI algorithm that enables large sets of robotic arms to work together faster and smarter in busy industrial settings, potentially saving manufacturers…

ASOs silence ?KZ transcripts in Pseudomonas. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09499-6 Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. Using phages therapeutically could be very useful in fighting antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but the molecular interactions between phages and host…

Total effective tax rates for the 400 wealthiest Americans have declined sharply in recent years, and they now pay a smaller percentage of their true income in taxes than the average American, according to new economic research from UC Berkeley.…

Credit: Cell Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1016 Every minute, all around us, battles are fought on a microscopic level. Bacteriophages (also known as phages) are viruses that infect and kill bacteria. Just like viruses that infect us, these phages seek to…

Students walked on Lego in different ways in order to evaluate how different conditions impact sensations of pain. Credit: University of Technology Sydney A new study from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) highlights the emotional and mental toll on…

Walk into most art galleries with children, and you’ll hear the familiar refrain “look but don’t touch.” This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand learning. Museums have become temples to visual consumption, where knowledge is received through…

Abstract. Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2025). DOI: 10.1021 More electric drive systems and fewer cars—this is how emissions from traffic can be significantly reduced. Electric vehicles offer particularly great potential with car sharing. However, not all electricity is created…

(A) We investigate early exits from different image encoder layers and find that VLM safety alignment varies, leading to what we term Image Encoder Early Exit (ICET) vulnerability. We propose Layer-wise Clip-PPO (L-PPO) to alleviate ICET. (B) With the same…