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Two mathematicians prove that a standard numerical method for equations mixing heat flow with random noise hits its best possible accuracy at any time after the start, provided you accept a manageable blow-up right at time zero.
Using the imaging survey that DESI relies on to pick its targets, five cosmologists found a faint scale-dependent pattern in how galaxies cluster that could point to massive fields during inflation, though the signal vanishes when they clean the data more aggressively.
A new preprint proves that the ground state energy of a widely studied quantum model settles at almost exactly the value physicists guessed nearly a decade ago.
A new preprint sharpens a 2023 result by proving that on a sphere, temperature information survives even when you can only observe a thin, dust-like fractal patch of the surface.
A cross-sectional study in Sichuan, China, found that social media fatigue explained the link between information overload and deliberately stepping away from the phone, while fear of missing out did not.
In two experiments, German researchers found that spontaneous blinks clustered at the exact points when people were sorting through what they held in mind, suggesting a cheap camera could stand in for an EEG cap.
A viewpoint from Brazilian and US medical educators argues that anatomy, biochemistry and physiology are quietly thinning out inside modern integrated curricula, even as they remain formally on the books.
Sixty stock market investors chose whether to join a month of daily yoga; those who did reported less stress, better attention control, and, on average, a shift from small losses to small gains.
A Korean study of 338 adults finds that subthreshold manic tendencies, flagged by a short screening questionnaire, track with higher anxiety, depression, and disrupted daily rhythms regardless of how badly a person sleeps.
Whole genomes from 49 Yellow-whiskered Greenbuls across Africa split into western, central, and eastern lineages that match long-hypothesized Pleistocene forest refuges, but the eastern lineage's mitochondrial DNA turns up deep inside central birds that otherwise share almost none of its genome.
A randomized experiment inside a multinational firm finds that chatbots reliably boost speed, while their effect on quality flips depending on the task.
Many tissue structures are really one-dimensional, a gut lining, a layered ribbon of cells, and a Harvard-led team argues that measuring gene expression along that shape, rather than across a flat map, finds patterns that two-dimensional methods miss.
Two-photon imaging of the memory-forming CA1 region found cells that idled too loudly and responded too weakly when the animal ran, with the worst disruption in tissue closest to amyloid plaques.
Researchers ran a week of UK Biobank accelerometer data through two frozen self-supervised models and predicted the future onset of 390 diseases, with the sharpest signal appearing years before Parkinson's disease was diagnosed.
Researchers sampled weathered butts, plant litter, and soil in 105 urban parks and found that butt-dwelling bacterial communities were consistently dominated by fast-growing Pseudomonadaceae carrying more antibiotic-resistance and virulence genes than their neighbours.