Here’s a good reason for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to eat their fruits and vegetables: It may help reduce inattention issues, a new study suggests. As part of a larger study, researchers asked parents of 134 kids with ADHD symptoms to complete a detailed questionnaire about the typical foods the children ate, […]

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A family of proteins that have a role in ensuring many types of cells move and maintain their shape may promote disease when they act like workaholics and disrupt the cellular environment, new research suggests. The study increases scientific understanding of plastins, whose job is to bind to and bundle other proteins that can be […]

Between 2014 and 2018, global spending on DVDs and Blu-ray discs dropped nearly 50%, from $25 billion to $13 billion. Over the same period, spending on digital home entertainment grew by 160%. And yet, even today, most Blu-rays cost more than the purchase of a digital movie. “This is really irrational,” says Rhia Catapanoopen in new […]

The industrial Chinese coastal city of Wuxi is offering massive housing subsidies of up to 10 million yuan (£1.2 million) to attract Nobel prize winners in physics or chemistry and other science superstars, according to reports from Reuters. The move follows efforts over the last few years by other large cities in China to draw […]

Scientists in Ukraine like Yaroslav Blume, his wife Alla Yemets and son Rostislav Blume are facing tremendous difficulties but they are persevering and maintaining their research programmes amid war. The family, which also includes 12-year-old daughter Evelina, are together at their home in Kyiv. ‘What I have found amazing is Yaroslav’s determination and resilience to […]

A bond between Rydberg atoms and ions has been observed for the first time by a group in Germany. Following the preparation of this highly unstable species, the team was able to demonstrate the molecular nature of the bond and measure various physical parameters including bond length. Full screen in popup Rydberg atoms contain a […]

The miseducation of algorithms is a critical problem; when artificial intelligence mirrors unconscious thoughts, racism, and biases of the humans who generated these algorithms, it can lead to serious harm. Computer programs, for example, have wrongly flagged Black defendants as twice as likely to reoffend as someone who’s white. When an AI used cost as […]

What will it take to make our electronics smarter, faster, and more resilient? One idea is to build them from materials that are topological. Topology stems from a branch of mathematics that studies shapes that can be manipulated or deformed without losing certain core properties. A donut is a common example: If it were made […]

Scientists must make ever more sophisticated measurements as technology shrinks to the nanoscale and we face global challenges from the effects of climate change. As industry works more and more on the nanometre scale (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre), there is a need to measure more reliably and accurately things we can […]