New AI tool predicts hydrogen positions to speed up drug discovery
New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like…
Mount Vesuvius Buried These Scrolls for 2,000 Years – Now Scientists May Read Them
One of several papyrus scrolls before carbonization and (b) after carbonization. Carbonized scroll produced with tight packing of…
Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
Only 15% of eligible American adults discuss lung cancer screening with their doctors
Lung cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer in its early stages, but only 15% of eligible…
Scallop-derived plasmalogens may support brain health and memory
The study, funded by B&S Corporation Co., Ltd., which manufactures and markets scallop plasmalogen, evaluated memory and brain…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Study identifies immune response causing severe COVID-19 susceptibility
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has largely subsided, scientists continue to investigate why the virus proved so deadly, causing…
New portable strip test accurately detects mosquito-borne viruses
A research team has developed a multisite bridging-mediated lateral flow immunoassay (mbLFIA) that enables highly sensitive, portable detection…
Lab-grown diamonds enable highly-sensitive radiation dose measurements
A team led by researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Tohoku University and Orbray Co., Ltd.,…
Powerful Lasers Reveal How Matter Becomes Plasma in Trillionths of a Second
In the experiment, the XFEL photon energy was carefully tuned to match a specific electronic transition in highly…
Study identifies a common brain activity pattern across psychedelics
Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that several psychedelic drugs – including psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and…