Briefing Chat: Dog years: could longevity science extend your pets' lives?

Unlike regular LCD and OLED displays, ereaders rely on e-ink tech that lets them gently sip power and last for months. Here's the science behind how it works.

The Mediterranean Sea still holds species unknown to science. One of them is Copula lucentia, a tiny jellyfish measuring just a few millimeters. Discovered off El Campello, in Alicante, it was formally described in 2024 by a research team at the University of Alicante (UA) Marine Laboratory in Dénia, which forms part of the university's Ramón Margalef Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Research.

A particular signaling protein in the brain could be a therapeutic target for neurological disorders arising from the deletion of the autism-linked gene MEF2C, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers found in a new mouse study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new mouse study that set out to test how sleep helps stabilize new memories has identified cells that may offer a genetic target for accessing circuits implicated in cognitive disorders. Researchers led by Min Xu and Wanling Peng from the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences focused on interneurons that gate the generation of rippl…

Predicting recovery for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) is exceptionally difficult due to the vast differences in injury causes and demographic backgrounds. In a new study published in The Innovation Life, researchers from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Tiantan Hospital and Capital Medical University h…

Middle-aged and older adults with autism are more likely to have co-occurring parkinsonism than adults without autism or intellectual disability, according to a new study led by George Washington University researchers in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

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Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data can speed up the plodding process of developing new drugs.

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as "shepherds" guiding the results in […