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Brain study shows shared neural code between vision and imagination

When people picture a familiar face or recall a place, the brain activates many of the same neurons involved in seeing it. A study published on April 9 in Science by researchers at Cedars-Sinai provides detailed evidence at the single-neuron level that visual perception and mental imagery rely on a shared......

Um6p science week 2026 explores interdisciplinary convergence in research

Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique opened the sixth edition of its Science Week on March 30 in Benguerir, bringing together researchers, academics, and students around a central theme: convergence across scientific disciplines. The event runs until April 5 and serves as a key moment in the university’s......

Study of 1,700 languages finds shared grammatical rules across human speech

Despite the striking diversity of the world's languages, a large share follow the same underlying grammatical patterns. A large-scale study analyzing more than 1,700 languages has found that roughly one third of long-proposed "linguistic universals" hold up under rigorous statistical testing,......

Anthropic maps 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude that shape its behavior

Anthropic's interpretability team published research on Wednesday revealing that its Claude Sonnet 4.5 model contains 171 distinct internal representations that function analogously to human emotions — and that these patterns do not merely correlate with model outputs but causally influence......

South Korean researchers achieve lithium-air battery breakthrough

A joint South Korean research team has developed a new catalyst that overcomes key performance barriers in lithium-air batteries, a technology long regarded as the holy grail of energy storage for its potential to deliver up to ten times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion systems. Researchers......

New studies reveal how DNA movement and cell mechanics drive cancer development

A wave of new research is transforming scientific understanding of cancer at its most fundamental level. Several studies published in recent weeks show that the physical behavior of DNA and the internal mechanics of cells play a far greater role in cancer development and spread than previously understood,......

Researchers build a phonon laser that could one day replace GPS

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a new type of laser that manipulates sound particles rather than light, a breakthrough they say could eventually contribute to navigation systems immune to jamming. The findings, published March 30 in......

Rice University researchers recover 95% of battery metals using plasma and citric acid

Researchers at Rice University have developed a new lithium-ion battery recycling method that recovers nearly 95 percent of valuable metals by combining microwave-induced plasma with citric acid, the same compound found in lemons. The patented process, published in the journal Advanced Materials, offers......

Astronomers discover 87 stellar streams reshaping Milky Way research

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have identified 87 stellar streams linked to globular clusters in the Milky Way, dramatically expanding the number of known structures and providing new tools to study dark matter and galactic evolution. The findings, published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplements,......