Today's Science Pulse
Twisting 2D hBN layers unlocks unprecedented control of quantum light
Researchers demonstrated that rotating ultra‑thin hexagonal boron nitride sheets can reversibly shift the color and wavelength of embedded quantum emitters far beyond what traditional solid‑state hosts allow. By picking up, stacking, and twisting the layers, they achieved spectral tuning orders of magnitude larger, a breakthrough reported in Science Advances.
A Prediction Tool for Malnutrition and Sarcopenia in Patients with Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Results From NUTRIGETNE (GETNE-S2109) Study
The NUTRIGETNE study evaluated 399 patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‑NENs) and found that 61.9% were malnourished while 15% had sarcopenia. Using a 4:1 split of training and validation cohorts, researchers built LASSO‑based logistic models that incorporate clinical variables such as tumor differentiation, nausea/vomiting, mobility limitations, and diabetes. The malnutrition model achieved 65.3% external accuracy (AUC 0.72) and the sarcopenia model 71.2% accuracy (AUC 0.78). A nomogram derived from these models offers clinicians a quick bedside tool to flag high‑risk patients for nutritional intervention.
Tart Cherry Supplementation Causes Differential Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Proteome After Eccentric Exercise
A double‑blind, placebo‑controlled crossover trial examined low (LTC) and high (HTC) doses of tart cherry concentrate on exercise‑induced muscle damage in 34 healthy young men. Seven days of supplementation raised plasma phenolic metabolites—especially hippuric acid—and altered the skeletal‑muscle proteome, increasing...
Two Radio Astronomers Spent Months Trying to Eliminate a Faint Hiss in Their Antenna, Even Scrubbing Out Pigeon Droppings, Before...
In 1964‑65 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used Bell Labs' Holmdel Horn Antenna—originally built for Project Echo—to hunt down a persistent hiss. After eliminating electronics, atmospheric effects, and even pigeon droppings, the residual signal remained isotropic and temperature‑stable. They identified...
‘Nothingness’ Doesn’t Exist—Yet It’s the Reason You’re Alive and Conscious, Physicists Say
Quantum field theory asserts that true emptiness does not exist; even the deepest void is a vacuum brimming with zero‑point energy. In this energetic backdrop, quantum fluctuations constantly spawn virtual particle‑antiparticle pairs that briefly borrow energy from the vacuum. When...
NASA Selects Lunar Outpost to Deliver Next-Gen Crewed Lunar Terrain Vehicle for Artemis Astronauts and Moon Base
NASA has chosen Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus Lunar Terrain Vehicle as one of two providers under its High Achievability Mission task order, part of the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract. The two‑seat, autonomous‑capable rover will support Artemis crews at the Moon’s...
Transparent Solar Cells Could Be Mounted Right on Windows
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have created ultrathin, semi‑transparent perovskite solar cells only 10 nm thick—about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. The cells achieve up to 12% efficiency in opaque form and 7.6% while letting 41% of visible light...
New Study: This Overlooked Brain Space Could Be the Key to Understanding Memory Loss in Women
Northwestern Medicine researchers discovered that estrogen loss after menopause disrupts the brain's extracellular matrix (ECM), especially in the hippocampus, impairing memory networks in female mice. The preclinical study, published in Aging Cell, compared young and old male and female mice...
Expansion Microscopy Reveals Centrioles at Nanoscale with Standard Optics
A single expansion step enlarged centrioles about 8–9× while preserving delicate ultrastructure. That made nanoscale organization visible with standard optical microscopy, leaving one long-standing imaging barrier less fixed than it seemed. microscopy
Claude Mythos Reportedly Solves OpenAI's Landmark Erdős Problem with a "Cute, Simple Proof"
Anthropic announced that its Claude Mythos model produced a concise, "cute, simple" proof of the Erdős unit‑distance conjecture, a problem that has eluded mathematicians since 1946. The claim follows OpenAI’s recent breakthrough that also resolved the conjecture, but Mythos reportedly...
Self-Assembling Peptide Helps Liver Cancer Drugs Escape Lysosome Traps
Researchers engineered a self‑assembling peptide, RS‑FS, that remains as nanospheres in blood but converts to nanofibers inside the acidic, reducing environment of hepatocellular carcinoma lysosomes, where it damages the organelle and frees trapped drugs. In mouse models, RS‑FS combined with...
Rocklin Lab Releases Megascale Open Protein Stability Dataset to Advance Biomolecular AI
The Rocklin Lab at Northwestern University released the MGnify Stability Dataset, a megascale collection of folding‑stability measurements for 1.8 million protein domains. Supported by the OpenFold Consortium, the data span more than 200,000 sequence families and include both stable and unstable...
Why Temperature Records Are Being Not only Broken but Smashed
An unprecedented heatwave is shattering temperature records across western Europe, with the UK reaching 35 °C in May—over 2 °C above the previous May high—and France logging hundreds of new heat extremes. Scientists attribute the surge to a persistent high‑pressure “heat dome”...
Synthetic Spider Silk: The Hype of Biotech Vs. The Hard Reality of Scale
Synthetic spider silk is attracting hype as a sustainable, high‑performance fiber, but production remains at kilogram‑scale while the global fiber market runs in hundreds of millions of tons. Companies such as Bolt Threads and Spiber can make the protein, yet...
Compound in Veggies May Help Repair Gut Damage Caused by HIV
A recent JCI Insight study using SIV‑infected primates showed that long‑term antiretroviral therapy does not fully restore gut‑protective immune cells, leaving the intestinal barrier compromised. Researchers identified that indole compounds naturally present in mustard‑family vegetables, such as broccoli, can boost...
Addition of Electricity Drastically Lowers Carbon Footprint of Cement Production
Scientists at the University of British Columbia unveiled an electrochemical process that replaces most of the high‑temperature kiln heat in cement manufacturing with electricity. The method creates an intermediate called eCSH at 140 °F (60 °C) and finishes clinker at 1200 °F (650 °C),...
Astrophysicists Strike Black Gold with Treasure Trove of Gravitational Wave Detections
The LVK collaboration released GWTC‑5.0, adding 161 new black‑hole merger detections and bringing the total catalog to 390 signals. Highlights include a record‑tight sky localisation of 6 square degrees for GW240615, the clearest gravitational‑wave signal ever recorded (SNR 76.9) from GW250114,...
8 Habits Tied to Lower Diabetes Risk in Postmenopausal Women
A new analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative found that postmenopausal women who score high on the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) framework face a dramatically lower chance of developing type 2 diabetes. Researchers tracked 19,403 women aged...
Using AI, Fermilab Researcher Probes How Transistors Behave in Extreme Cold
Fermilab Ph.D. student Olivia Seidel is applying artificial intelligence to model how transistors operate at cryogenic temperatures near absolute zero. Her prototype replaces a labor‑intensive step in traditional physics‑based modeling, delivering accurate parameter sets in roughly 120 milliseconds after two...
Brain Wave Patterns Shed Light on How You Make Memories
Researchers at the University of Chicago identified distinct spatial patterns in traveling brain waves that encode memory formation and retrieval. Using intracranial electrodes implanted in epilepsy patients, they mapped spirals, radiating sources, and sink‑like waves while participants performed word‑recall and...
Arthritis Drug Tocilizumab Shows Promise for Treatment‑Resistant Depression
Researchers at the University of Bristol reported that tocilizumab, an anti‑inflammatory arthritis medication, helped 54% of participants achieve remission in a four‑week trial for treatment‑resistant depression, versus 31% on placebo. The findings suggest targeting inflammation could expand options for patients...
Tropical Cyclones Emit Up to 23% of Ocean Carbon, May Switch to Sink by Mid‑Century
An international team led by China’s National University of Defense Technology quantified tropical cyclones as responsible for 9‑23% of ocean carbon outgassing since 1993, a share that has halved by the 2010s. Their model predicts that, under continued high CO₂...
Tau Protein Is Crucial for Encoding Long-Term Memory
Scientists have shown that the tau protein, long associated with Alzheimer’s pathology, is required for encoding long‑term memories. In tau‑deficient mice, recent recall remains intact while remote recall is impaired, a deficit rescued by re‑expressing tau only during the learning...
Compass Therapeutics to Unveil Phase 1 CTX‑8371 Data at ASCO 2026
Compass Therapeutics announced that it will present promising Phase 1 data on its bispecific antibody CTX‑8371 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2026 annual meeting. The data, derived from patients with advanced malignancies who have progressed after checkpoint‑inhibitor therapy, could...
Wearables Could Power AI-Driven Aging Research
Wearables are now abundant enough to generate population-level health data outside of clinical trials. So when will all this data produce progress? When we address the gaps between wearable data and what we need to understand disease. They measure physiology continuously, but...
NASA Picks Astrolab, Lunar Outpost for 1‑ton Artemis Rovers
NASA has selected Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build lunar rovers for the early Artemis missions. These will be approximately 1-ton vehicles with the capability to drive up to 200 km.
How Sleep and Dementia May Be Linked
A new review in Science argues that sleep‑dependent brain rhythms drive the glymphatic system, which clears toxic proteins like amyloid‑beta and tau. Disruption of these rhythms—by stress, cardiovascular disease, fragmented sleep or aging—may impair waste removal and raise dementia risk....
Neuroscientist Exposes Psychedelic Hype Behind Biotech Boom
Neuroscientist Gül Dölen, live and unfiltered — on psychedelics, plasticity, and the beautiful lie at the heart of the biotech boom. https://t.co/QEIrhJ2Ik3
The Development of Breast Apocrine Carcinoma (BAC) Score that Distinguishes Breast and Cutaneous Apocrine Carcinomas
Researchers have created a Breast Apocrine Carcinoma (BAC) score that reliably separates breast‑origin apocrine cancers from cutaneous apocrine carcinomas. The classifier was built from multi‑cohort transcriptomic data using a LASSO logistic regression model and leverages distinct hormone‑signaling and proliferative signatures....
Braiding Fibonacci Anyons Enables Universal Quantum Gates
How can we build universal quantum gates by braiding exotic particles that don't exist in free space? Fibonacci anyons are quasiparticle excitations of topologically ordered quantum states whose braiding statistics are rich enough to perform universal quantum computation.
New Drug Works Against Diseases Like Measles and Croup
Researchers at Georgia State University have identified GHP-88310, a new oral antiviral candidate that targets orthoparamyxoviruses such as measles and human parainfluenza virus type 3. The drug demonstrated potent, once‑daily efficacy and high tolerability in both rodent and non‑rodent animal models,...
SpaceX’s Starship V3 Reaches Key Milestones Despite Booster Loss
SpaceX successfully flew the latest Starship‑Super Heavy configuration, dubbed Version 3, on May 22, completing a full suborbital trajectory and hitting all pre‑flight objectives. The vehicle’s first‑stage booster detached prematurely and was lost, but the Starship upper stage continued on schedule, executing...
Poznan University of Technology Deploys On-Premises IQM Quantum Computer to Core Academic Campus
Poland’s Poznan University of Technology (PUT) has installed its first on‑premises quantum computer, the IQM Radiance R1 superconducting system. This is the second IQM system in Poland and aligns with national and EU quantum sovereignty roadmaps. The deployment enables direct...
ROBOZE to Conduct Research Into Carbon–Carbon & Ceramic Matrix Composites with Swiss University
ROBOZE has teamed up with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) to research carbon‑carbon (C‑C) and ceramic matrix composites (CMC) using advanced additive manufacturing. The partnership leverages ROBOZE’s expertise in high‑performance production and SUPSI’s capabilities...
Predicting Volcanic Eruptions
Researchers have deployed an automated system called Jerk at Piton de la Fournaise, France, achieving 92% accuracy in forecasting eruptions. The tool analyzes real‑time subtle ground movements caused by magma fracturing rock, delivering warnings from minutes to hours before an...
Scientists Ditched a Scary Climate Scenario. What Now?
An international research team has officially retired the high‑emissions climate pathway known as RCP8.5, labeling it implausible given recent declines in coal use and accelerating renewable adoption. The scenario, long‑standing in climate‑impact studies, projected a worst‑case warming trajectory that many...
Pioneering High-Pressure Cold Spray Transforms Manufacturing of Complex Copper Rocket Nozzles
Engineers at Scotland's National Manufacturing Institute have demonstrated a high‑pressure cold spray process that builds large copper rocket nozzles layer by layer. The solid‑state method deposits up to 10 kg of copper per hour, eliminating melting‑related distortion and cutting lead times...
Large Hadron Collider Detects Strange Particle Behavior that Could Rewrite Physics
Researchers at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, using the LHCb experiment, have reported a four‑sigma deviation in the decay patterns of B mesons that conflicts with Standard Model predictions. The anomaly, observed in rare electroweak penguin decays, aligns with earlier, less...
Single-Dose Psilocybin Shows Rapid Antidepressant Effects and Weeks-Long Nerve Pain Relief
A phase‑2 trial in Sweden found that one 25 mg dose of psilocybin plus psychotherapy produced rapid antidepressant effects, with 53% of participants in remission by week six. In a separate pre‑clinical study, a single psilocybin injection eased neuropathic pain in...
China Sends Lab‑Grown Human Embryos to Space to Probe Microgravity Effects
China has launched a payload of lab‑grown human embryos aboard a spaceflight to investigate how microgravity influences early development. The experiment, conducted on a research module, aims to deepen understanding of embryogenesis and inform future long‑duration space missions, while raising...
Discovery of a P-Wave Magnet in a Metal
Physicists at RIKEN have experimentally confirmed a p‑wave magnet in a metallic crystal, marking the first observation of this exotic helical spin order in a conductor. The discovery follows a 2024 theory that predicted such a state and arrives just...
Biotech Surge Powers Nasdaq: AKTX Jumps 255% on KRAS Data
Akari Therapeutics (AKTX) surged more than 255% for a second straight day after preclinical data showed synergistic activity of its AKTX-101 drug with KRAS inhibition in pancreatic cancer models. The rally lifted the broader biotech sector, with Govix (GOVX) and...
Bee‑Nav Lets Micro‑drones Fly GPS‑free for Hundreds of Meters
Scientists at Delft University of Technology have demonstrated Bee‑Nav, a navigation method that lets micro‑drones travel hundreds of meters and return without GPS, relying on a neural memory of only 42 KB. The breakthrough could open low‑cost autonomous flight for greenhouses,...
AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo Win EU CHMP Nod for Enhertu in HER2 Tumors
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's CHMP for Enhertu, expanding the antibody‑drug conjugate to HER2‑positive solid tumours after prior therapy. The endorsement is based on subgroup analyses from Phase II DESTINY trials that showed...
Just 1.2 Billion Years After the Big Bang, Galaxies Were Already Shaped by Where They Lived
Astronomers using Subaru's Hyper Suprime‑Cam discovered the Loktak Protocluster, a massive galaxy overdensity that existed 12.6 billion years ago (z≈4.9). Follow‑up imaging with JWST revealed that galaxies inside this dense region are about 1.4 times larger in optical light than comparable galaxies in...
Could a Cosmic Uncertainty Principle Help Explain Dark Matter?
Theoretical physicist Savvas Koushiappas proposes a cosmic uncertainty principle, treating the universe's size and expansion rate as non‑commuting quantum operators. This leads to a deformed Friedmann equation that can generate late‑time accelerated expansion without invoking dark energy. The model predicts...
Why Is Hantavirus so Deadly? It’s Not What You May Think
New World hantaviruses such as Andes virus cause a rapid, lethal capillary‑leak syndrome rather than direct lung‑cell damage, killing up to 40 percent of those infected. An ongoing outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius has placed more than 150 people in...
Silanol Networks Control Methanol Reactivity in Nano‐ and Micron‐sized Silicalite‐1
Researchers have shown that silanol groups in pure‑silica MFI zeolite (silicalite‑1) are not inert defects but active participants in methanol conversion. By comparing micron‑sized (Sil1_micro) and nano‑sized (Sil1_nano) crystals, in‑situ FTIR and operando studies revealed distinct hydrogen‑bonding networks that dictate...
Mercury's Water Ice May Have Been Deposited by a Larger, Slower Impactor than Previously Thought—In only One Day
A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets models how a single, Hokusai‑scale impact could have dumped water onto Mercury’s polar cold traps in just one Mercurian day (176 Earth days). The simulations show that a 17 km comet...
Ivonescimab Shows
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AQUARIUS Registry Unveils Multi‑Center Biomarker Discovery for Blood Cancers
AQUARIUS: A longitudinal multi-center molecular biomarker discovery registry for Pts w/ hematologic malignancies - @mtmdphd et al. @TempusAI & IFLI - Instit Follicular Lymphoma Innovation #ASCO26 abstr TPS7105, Poster 599a https://t.co/70G0v1P968 #NCT07154823 #lymsm #cagenome