Turning a garlic-derived fumigant into nanometer-scale droplets made it deadlier to adzuki bean beetles. The same formulation left most of their parasitoid wasps alive and did not harm germinating seeds. The spearmint partner, however, erased that safety margin.
Physicists funneled concentrated sunlight into a nonlinear crystal and pulled out polarization-entangled photon pairs, the first entanglement ever measured from a sunlight-pumped source. The pairs violated Bell’s inequality, showing that lasers are optional for quantum light.
A survey of over five thousand Brazilian adults finds that deja vu, visions and out-of-body sensations follow oddly similar patterns of interpretation, and most people count the experience as a net positive within their own lives.
Neanderthals carried a growth hormone receptor that signals more strongly in cultured cells than the common modern version. Adults who inherited it average slightly more muscle mass, a marginally shorter jaw ramus and shorter tooth roots.
A Göttingen physics team reconstructed the full 3D wavefunction of an organic semiconductor molecule using a lab-bench extreme ultraviolet source, imaging orbitals that once demanded a synchrotron and hinting at future femtosecond movies.
Trusted everyday figures like hairdressers and neighbours may shift climate behaviour more than celebrities, argues a Nature Climate Change synthesis that sorts the evidence into a four-part framework of messenger, audience, mode and target behaviour.
An AI model trained on more than 10,000 overnight recordings sorted sleep-study patients into five risk tiers, spotting a doubled five-year mortality gap that the standard apnea severity score missed entirely, in both men and women.
A survey of 426 Nigerian science students found that those handling reagents most often, and eating the fewest fruits and vegetables, reported the most fatigue, headaches and bruising, though no blood test confirmed why.
Physicists in Edinburgh borrowed optimal control theory, the maths of fuel-efficient trajectories, to sculpt magnetic pulses that flip a bit in a few trillionths of a second while spending, in simulation, up to a hundredth of the usual energy.
An unexpectedly free hour feels longer than an hour you planned to have, and across seven experiments that swollen sense of time nudged people into slower choices, longer tasks and, occasionally, a missed deadline.
Vipers make serum proteins that neutralize their own venom. Combinations of them fully blocked the lethal action of three viper venoms in mice, partly blocked two more, and did nothing at all against the African puff adder.
Physicists in Japan etched 372,100 holes into a silicon chip following the Smith hat tiling, then found that left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light scatter off it differently, an asymmetry conventional quasicrystals cannot produce.