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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Mar-2026 10:16 ET (16-Mar-2026 14:16 GMT/UTC)
From trial-and-error to intelligent design: Machine Learning boosts a breakthrough in the performance of BaTiO3-based High-Entropy energy-storage ceramics
Tsinghua University Press
Novel high-entropy strategy boosts energy storage and enables ultrafast discharge in advanced ceramics
Tsinghua University Press
FAU researchers find concerning rise in US teen obesity over a decade
Florida Atlantic University
AI gets a D: Study shows inaccuracies, inconsistency in ChatGPT answers
Washington State University
Jeonbuk National University researchers develop clustering-based framework for water level forecasting
Jeonbuk National University, Sustainable Strategy team, Planning and Coordination Division
New study discovers how serotonin can be hijacked in the brain
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reduced air pollution from climate mitigation could boost crop yields and lower hunger risk
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Not every forest cools the Earth
ETH Zurich
Consistency over perfection, new resistance-training guidelines say
McMaster University
Tools to glimpse how “helicity” impacts matter and light
Tokyo Metropolitan University
The power of photonics
University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
The dehumanization effect: New PSU research examines how abusive supervision impacts employee agency and burnout
Portland State University
Bursting cancer-seeking microbubbles to deliver deadly drugs
Duke University
Agricultural and industrial waste transformed into advanced porous carbon for soil and water conservation
Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University