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The FDA has cleared a system that uses brain activity data to personalize magnetic stimulation for PTSD, adding a new nonmedication treatment option. Every day in the United States, approximately 17.5 veterans die by suicide, while 7% of veterans are diagnosed each year with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Against this backdrop, researchers at Texas A&M […]

Physicists used advanced quantum technologies to test predictions from a decades-old theory. At the point where matter changes from one phase to another, very different materials can suddenly begin following the same mathematical rules. Water approaching a boil and a magnet losing its magnetism are familiar examples of phase transitions. “Physicists call this trait universality—the […]

Ultraviolet imaging of a 125-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil has revealed unexpectedly detailed traces of skin, sensory structures, and chest cartilage. More than a century after a tiny Early Cretaceous crocodylomorph was unearthed in northeastern Spain, its fossil is revealing details that were hiding in plain sight. Under ultraviolet light, researchers have now detected exceptionally preserved traces […]

Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure. Muscle cells face a peculiar problem. Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need […]

Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure. Muscle cells face a peculiar problem. Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need […]

Researchers directly observed muscle actin filaments growing from an end long thought unable to support growth, revealing how the protein leiomodin 2 helps maintain their structure. Muscle cells face a peculiar problem. Their actin filaments must remain precisely the right length for muscles to contract properly, yet those same filaments continually age, degrade, and need […]

Vesper bats possess a second antibody gene system unseen in other known mammals, revealing a new level of immune diversity. Bats can harbor viruses capable of causing severe disease without usually becoming seriously ill themselves, a biological puzzle that has challenged scientists for years. Researchers at Tulane University, working with collaborators at Stanford University and […]

A star’s rotation may help solve a longstanding mystery involving repeated encounters between stars and supermassive black holes. At the center of most galaxies sits a supermassive black hole, an object millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Its gravity is powerful enough to tear apart a star that ventures too close, […]

A star’s rotation may help solve a longstanding mystery involving repeated encounters between stars and supermassive black holes. At the center of most galaxies sits a supermassive black hole, an object millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Its gravity is powerful enough to tear apart a star that ventures too close, […]

As NASA prepares for humanity’s first lunar spaceport, engineers are developing a traffic control system to keep spacecraft moving safely and efficiently. Within the next two decades, NASA’s planned Gateway could become humanity’s first lunar spaceport, serving Orion crew capsules, lunar landers, cargo vehicles, and astronauts traveling between Earth, the moon, and eventually farther into […]