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Phys.org / Rethinking Troy: How years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

6 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Minimally invasive test offers new insights into breast cancer spread and immune response

New research led by King's College London suggests that a simple test already used in clinics could provide valuable additional insights into how the body's immune system responds to cancer, without requiring any extra procedures ...

6 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Study establishes new risk model for surgery after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

At the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting, investigators presented a late-breaking study focused on surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) following prior transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), ...

1 hour ago in Cardiology
Phys.org / Hidden toxin risks during nutrient-starved algal blooms uncovered

Harmful algal blooms continue to threaten coastal ecosystems and seafood safety worldwide. Among the organisms involved, the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima is a known producer of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxins ...

6 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Big data make hidden genetic drivers of type 2 diabetes visible

Numerous genetic studies have identified many risk variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D)—but which genes and proteins are actually involved in the disease mechanisms? An international team led by Helmholtz Munich has now used ...

10 hours ago in Genetics
Phys.org / Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607

People living on the low-lying shores of the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary began their day like any other on January 30, 1607. The weather was calm. The sky was bright.

6 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey

The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and travel with us easily. Some ...

6 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such ...

6 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Why parents turn to social media about kids' drug use

University of Texas at Arlington Professor Dana Litt contributed to a study led by Alex Russell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, that found many parents turn to online peer advice when facing concerns about ...

6 hours ago in Addiction
Phys.org / How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair

For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many residents, the dust that is released there is just part of everyday life—but it can contain natural ...

6 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and we die, in exactly that ...

8 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: A political choice that ignores the science

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest soybean traders in Brazil, announced its withdrawal from the Amazon soy moratorium.

6 hours ago in Biology