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Phys.org / Escape hatch could spare undersized Arctic crabs

Researchers working in Norway's Barents Sea say a simple modification to snow crab pots could sharply reduce the number of undersized animals accidentally caught in the Arctic fishery.

39 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / How stories of personal experience cut through climate fatigue in ways that global negotiations can't

When Cop30 convened in Belém, deep inside the Amazon, the world's attention turned once again to negotiations, emissions pledges and political maneuvering. The global stage was set against one of Earth's most biodiverse ...

9 minutes ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Hospital infections associated with higher risk of dementia

A large-scale meta-analysis, led by first author Wei Yu Chua from the National University of Singapore and corresponding author Eng-King Tan at the National Neuroscience Institute and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, ...

Phys.org / Experimental proof shows quantum world is even stranger than previously thought

The quantum world is famously weird—a single particle can be in two places at once, its properties are undefined until they are measured, and the very act of measuring a quantum system changes everything. But according ...

10 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Evaluating the effectiveness of a state-level SNAP incentive program

When Eat Well, Be Well was launched in Rhode Island in January 2024, it was the first program of its kind in the country to offer a financial incentive for those in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ...

1 hour ago in Health
Phys.org / After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark matter—holding the galaxies ...

5 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Reducing social media use for just a week can improve mental health

In a new study, published in JAMA Network Open, 295 participants report promising mental health benefits after reducing their social media usage for a week. The cohort consisted of young adults from the ages of 18 to 24—the ...

11 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / The world's most efficient solar cell: Chinese researchers explain how they designed and built it

Earlier in 2025, Chinese solar manufacturer Longi announced it had built the world's most efficient solar cell. The hybrid interdigitated back-contact (HIBC) cell achieved 27.81% efficiency, which was verified by Germany's ...

13 hours ago in Engineering
Phys.org / New X-ray method captures 3 image-contrast types in a single shot

University of Houston researchers developed a new X-ray imaging method capable of revealing hidden features in a single shot, a breakthrough that could advance cancer detection, disease monitoring, security screening and ...

6 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Puzzling ultraviolet radiation in the birthplaces of stars

Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet radiation in five young stars in the Ophiuchus region, and to understand its role in the formation ...

7 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Myeloid mimicry enables kidney tumors to resist immunotherapy and worsen rapidly, study finds

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) cells use an adaptive mechanism called "myeloid mimicry" to hide from the immune system and promote disease ...

6 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Adaptive method helps light-based quantum processors act more like neural networks

Machine learning models called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) power technologies like image recognition and language translation. A quantum counterpart—known as a quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN)—could ...

7 hours ago in Physics