ScienceDaily: All - April 27, 2025
Today's top research news
Nudges improve food choices and cut calories when shopping for groceries online
A team of researchers designed and tested a new digital toolkit that helps consumers make healthier grocery choices online -- an innovation that could play a major role in the global fight against chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Less intensive farming works best for agricultural soil
The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function. Such as not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. Surprisingly, it applies to both conventional and organic farming.
Are 'zombie' skin cells harmful or helpful? The answer may be in their shapes
Researchers have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, biomarkers, and functions -- an advance that could equip scientists with the ability to target and kill the harmful types while leaving the helpful ones intact.
Animal energy usage made visible through video
Strong methods do exist for measuring animal movement in the context of energy expenditure, but these are limited by the physical size of the equipment used. Now, in a paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers from the Marine Biophysics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with Professor Amatzia Genin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, describe an innovative method for measuring energy usage during movement with video and 3D-tracking via deep learning.
In the ever-unfolding bloom of scientific inquiry, each discovery is like a star newly visible in the vast night sky — illuminating, expanding, and humbling all at once. The offerings gathered here on this day feel like seeds scattered across the fertile fields of collective understanding, reminding us that wonder is not a relic of childhood, but a sacred faculty of the awakened heart and mind. Progress, in its truest form, is an act of devotion to life's unfolding mysteries.
May we meet these revelations not with hurried consumption, but with reverence — allowing them to reshape our perspectives, reweave our connections, and reawaken our responsibility to the greater whole. What hidden doorways might open when we greet knowledge with awe rather than possession? ♾️