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Assessment tool helps schools look at students holistically

Researchers in the Neag School of Education are bringing a whole child screening assessment to a company that provides schools with a connected set of solutions that turn every student signal into timely, equitable, coordinated and measurable tools to track and manage supports.

Brief phys.org · 8h ago · 1 min
Supercurrent enables the reading of quantum information without destroying it

One of the fundamental challenges of quantum computing is obtaining information from a quantum bit, or qubit. Unlike a conventional bit, which can be read repeatedly without altering its content, direct measurement of a quantum system typically causes the state to collapse before

Brief phys.org · 12h ago · 1 min
Microorganisms show promise for reducing emissions from manure

Dairy farmers sometimes use additives in their cattle housing to reduce emissions from slurry. Emissions of substances such as ammonia occur when urine and feces mix on the floor of the housing. At the same time, dairy farmers want to increase the fertilizing value of the manure

Brief phys.org · 18h ago · 1 min
Low-dose aspirin linked to 70% lower dementia risk, but there's a catch

A common, inexpensive medication could hold an unexpected clue to preventing dementia. Researchers found that older adults with a specific genetic profile had a 70% lower relative risk of dementia when taking low-dose aspirin, even though previous studies found no overall protect

Brief sciencedaily.com · 21h ago · 1 min
Newly identified protein pathway helps HIV stay hidden despite treatment

Current HIV medicines are effective at suppressing the virus in the blood. However, HIV can remain "asleep" or dormant inside certain immune cells and in the brain. These hidden pockets of virus, called HIV reservoirs, are the main reason HIV cannot be cured with today's treatmen

Brief phys.org · 2d ago · 1 min
NASA’s asteroid Bennu samples reveal a 4.5-billion-year-old secret

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System mixed, with Jupiter playing a surprising role in shaping its formation.

Brief sciencedaily.com · 2d ago · 1 min
Student News Today — October 24, 2026

Power cuts and sleep: Students link load shedding to anxiety, disrupted rest and lower grades and more — today's student signal.

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Scientists demonstrate AI-designed enzyme for drug synthesis

The new RFD4-Proteina unified generative model for protein design—created by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) in collaboration with NVIDIA—uses advanced AI to generate entirely new protein sequences and structures, achieving computational design success rates five to 10 tim

Brief phys.org · 2d ago · 1 min

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Assessment tool helps schools look at students holistically

Researchers in the Neag School of Education are bringing a whole child screening assessment to a company that provides schools with a connected set of solutions that turn every student signal into timely, equitable, coordinated and measurable tools to track and manage supports.

phys.org · 8h ago
Crows make decisions twice as fast as humans and monkeys

University of Tübingen researchers have shown that crows, when confronted with a visual choice, make a decision twice as fast as humans and monkeys. In the experiment, two carrion crows took just 235 milliseconds on average to identify the direction in which a dot pattern was mov

phys.org · 12h ago
Monarchs report their locations via… cellphone?

Who knew a monarch butterfly could borrow a cellphone to check in with friendly people he met on his journey? That is essentially what happens now that new technology has reduced the weight of a radio-pulse tag to less than half a gram (0.02 ounces).

phys.org · 12h ago
Patterns of polar vortices discovered in lead-free superlattices on silicon

A team at HZB has, for the first time, reported polar vortices in (BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃)₁₀ superlattices on silicon. These results expand the range of materials and substrates on which polar topological textures can occur and open up new options for incorporating complex ferroelectric s

phys.org · 14h ago

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