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• A wearable smart insole can track how you walk, run and stand April 18, 2025
  A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson's disease.
• Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals April 17, 2025
  Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defenses in 367 CE. […]
• A new record for California's highest tree April 17, 2025
  A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.
• Groundbreaking study uncovers how our brain learns April 17, 2025
  How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is processed in our brain's circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.
• Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars April 17, 2025
  Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars.