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Medical Xpress / Prototype device restores lost smell by teaching the brain to feel odors

There is new hope for people who have lost their smell. Scientists have successfully tested a breakthrough device that lets people detect the presence of certain odors. This innovative system helps them "smell" again by translating ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in unusual multi-trigger gamma-ray burst

A new study led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals in an unusual gamma-ray burst (GRB) event. The findings are published in The Astrophysical ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Innovative care system aims to save severed limbs

The number of traumatic amputations is rising worldwide—caused by road traffic accidents, accidents at work or during leisure activities, but also as a result of terrorist attacks or war. Only a few specialist clinics are ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / Drug combination sidesteps resistance in aggressive childhood neuroblastoma models

A discovery from Australian researchers could lead to better treatment for children with neuroblastoma, a cancer that currently claims 9 out of 10 young patients who experience recurrence. The team at the Garvan Institute ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Discovery about brain receptors may open the door to new Alzheimer's treatments

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have identified two receptors in the brain that control the breakdown of amyloid beta, a substance that accumulates in Alzheimer's ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Shop-bought cable helps power two quantum networks

For decades, physicists have dreamed of a quantum internet: a planetary web of ultrasecure communications and super-powered computation built not from electrical signals, but from the ghostly connections between particles ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Intelligent photodetectors 'sniff and seek' like retriever dogs to recognize materials directly from light spectra

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in collaboration with UC Berkeley, have developed a new type of intelligent image sensor that can perform machine-learning inference during the act of photodetection ...

Phys.org / Astronomers investigate nearby pulsar with radio telescopes

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from Russia and China have observed a nearby pulsar designated PSR J1951+2837. The new observations, presented ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this innovative work enhances key ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Engineering
Phys.org / Second exoplanet discovered in the TOI-1422 system

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light years away. The newfound exoplanet, which received designation TOI-1422 c, is nearly three times larger ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Flightless ancestor shows brain evolution in pterosaurs and birds took different paths

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the pioneers, taking to the skies more than 220 million years ago, ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / New possible treatment pathway for Shank3-related autism discovered

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in communication, behavior and the processing of sensory information. Past research has shown that some individuals diagnosed with ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Neuroscience