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2 days ago | 
phys.org | Kay Ledbetter |Stephanie Baum |Robert Egan
As the dairy industry increasingly adopts automation with the use of sensors and robotics, researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife are helping producers harness this evolving technology to help optimize production and improve the health and well-being of dairy cattle.
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2 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Allessandra DiCorato |Stephanie Baum |Robert Egan
Up to half of patients with Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, develop a complication called fibrosis, where the gut becomes scarred and obstructed, causing pain and bloating. Currently, the only treatment option for these gut "strictures" is surgery.
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2 days ago | 
phys.org | James Ashworth |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan
A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is the most complete named specimen of its kind and is now on permanent display at the Natural History Museum.
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3 days ago | 
phys.org | Jerald Pinson |Stephanie Baum |Robert Egan
On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've learned just about everything about them by now. But talk to a marine biologist, and they will quickly disabuse you of this notion.
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3 days ago | 
phys.org | Tomasz Nowakowski |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the Algol-type, designated V455 Car. Results of the observational campaign are published in the journal New Astronomy.
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4 days ago | 
phys.org | Tomasz Nowakowski |Sadie Harley |Robert Egan
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which received designation COSMOS2020-635829. The newfound object appears to undergo a ram pressure stripping of gas and therefore may be a "jellyfish" galaxy. The finding was detailed in a research paper published June 17 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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5 days ago | 
phys.org | Ingrid Fadelli |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan
Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the well-known conversational platform ChatGPT, have proved to be very promising for summarizing and generating written texts. However, they could also be interesting tools for conducting research rooted in psychology, behavioral science and other scientific disciplines.
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6 days ago | 
phys.org | Chris Packham |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
This week, medical researchers ruled out brainstem CT scanning alone for proof of neurologic death. Researchers at Yale presented new evidence that the brain stores and retrieves visuomotor associations in graph-like cognitive structures. And a new vision-language model generates inspection plans based on written descriptions without training.
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6 days ago | 
phys.org | Ingrid Fadelli |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan
Embezzlement of entanglement is an exotic phenomenon in quantum information science, describing the possibility of extracting entanglement from a resource system without changing its quantum state. In this context, the resource systems play the role of a catalyst, enabling a state transition that would otherwise be impossible, without being consumed in the process. For embezzlement of entanglement to be possible, the resource state needs to be highly entangled.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Justin Jackson |Sadie Harley |Robert Egan
A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and feed on bacteria that oxidize methane. Three undescribed species of Sericosura sea spiders were discovered to host dense layers of methane- and methanol-consuming microbes on their exoskeletons.
