Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center report that magnesium plays a key role in regulating vitamin D levels in the body. In a randomized clinical trial, magnesium increased vitamin D in people who were deficient, while reducing levels in…
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Delivering genome editing components with Lipid Nanoparticles to repair the building blocks of muscles
Scientists have developed a novel approach of genome editing to repair muscle stem (satellite) cells, offering new hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatment.
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New dataset maps global city boundaries in high resolution from 2000 to 2022
A research team led by Prof. Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has produced the first comprehensive, high-resolution map of global city and town boundaries, offering a view…
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Hunting for dark matter axions with a quantum-powered haloscope
Axions are hypothetical light particles that could solve two different physics problems, as they could explain why some nuclear interactions don’t violate time symmetry and are also promising dark matter candidates. Dark matter is a type of…
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Scientists have uncovered evidence of Ireland's largest prehistoric hillfort settlement
In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort, making it the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of…
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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Semiconductor Stories of 2025
This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial deployment. I’ve been at IEEE Spectrum long enough to have seen some of the early days of…
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Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on Collision Course in a Cosmic First : ScienceAlert
Some 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, a massive event is unfolding on cosmic scales.
There, not two, but three galaxies are gradually coming together in a giant, triple collision named J1218/1219+1035. That’s rare enough on its own – but…
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Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier
A team of scientists are staring climate change in the eye, the New York Times reports, setting sail for the infamous “Doomsday Glacier” in Antarctica in an attempt to study it up close.
The enormous Thwaites Glacier, at roughly the size of…
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The top 5 most horrifying and fascinating medical cases of 2025
Humans accidentally get infected by eating raw vegetables containing or contaminated by infected slugs or snails, or by eating undercooked creatures that eat slugs or snails, such as land crabs, freshwater prawns, or frogs….
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Ultrathin ferroelectric capacitors for next-generation memory devices
Researchers reduce the total thickness of capacitor stacks while maintaining strong polarization properties.
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