Thermal-shock quenching shatters a ceramic into disordered atomic clusters that move oxygen ions almost 18,000 times faster than a standard oxide, and a trace amount blended into an electrode tripled power output while reversing wear over time.
Lawrence Livermore simulations show fusion capsules absorbing radiation asymmetry without losing yield, until a sharp threshold flips a working implosion into a failed one, shaping how future fusion power plants might be tuned.
A new mathematical model strips out a constraint long assumed essential to slime mold inspired computing, letting a simulated optimization machine scale from about 30 cities to 180 while finding solutions with far fewer computational steps.
Handheld spy-detectors barely beat searching by eye in a University College London (UCL) trial, missing most hidden cameras and trackers unless the app could name and locate the device, not just sense it.
Doctors have long relied on an invasive marrow-sampling procedure to check whether a childhood cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma has advanced. A large international study finds a whole-body imaging scan already in use catches it just as reliably, except in one circumstance.
X(2370)’s strongest new clue is an absence: the particle vanishes when researchers isolate a decay route that a pseudoscalar flavor-singlet state should suppress.
A raft of native reeds anchored across an Australian wastewater lagoon began slashing greenhouse gases within months, well before it managed to strip out any extra nutrients from the water.
An old shelved compound called TOFA made obese mice burn about 18% more energy and shed fat while keeping muscle, working the opposite lever to Ozempic. It has never been tested in humans.
Beta-2-microglobulin and cystatin C, both already on standard lab menus, tracked future disability in adults over 85 across Japanese and Italian cohorts, pointing to kidney strain and inflammation years before independence slips.
Tracking 75 patients recovering from psychosis, researchers found the inflated expectation of an unstable world eased as delusions lifted, and clung to persecutory beliefs above all, hinting at a treatment target dopamine drugs miss.
At CERN, physicists smashed oxygen and neon nuclei together at nearly the speed of light. The way the wreckage spread out differed between the two, and the difference tracks the shapes the nuclei are thought to hold inside: a tetrahedron for oxygen, a bowling pin for neon.
An injection primes the immune system, then nanoparticles applied vaginally pull immune defenders to where herpes enters. In mice, 80 percent showed no disease for six months, versus 40 percent with the shot alone. Human trials remain distant.