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Phys.org / Graphene membranes offer efficient, low-cost option for industrial CO₂ capture

Carbon capture is becoming essential for industries that still depend on fossil fuels, including the cement and steel industries. Natural-gas power plants, coal plants, and cement factories all release large amounts of CO₂, ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Unlocking the sun's magnetic secrets: AI-powered mapping reveals intricate 3D details

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The UH-led team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can map the sun's magnetic ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Non-opioid 'pain sponge' therapy shows promise for chronic pain relief and halting cartilage degeneration

SereNeuro Therapeutics, a preclinical biotechnology company developing non-opioid pain therapies, has unveiled new data on a novel approach to chronic pain management and joint tissue preservation. The data highlight SN101, ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Soft 'cyborg' cardiac patches could improve stem cell heart repair

Heart muscle cells grown from patient stem cells—known as human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes, or hiPSC-CMs—are a promising way to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks and heart failure. But ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Cardiology
Phys.org / Small galaxies may buck the black hole trend, Chandra finds

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every galaxy has one of these ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Enhancing machine-learning interatomic potentials for advanced materials modeling

Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, scientists have been using it to make accurate yet inexpensive calculations of interatomic potentials, ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Biphenomycin biosynthetic pathway decoded, opening door to new antibiotic development

Biphenomycins, natural products derived from bacteria, show excellent antimicrobial activity, but have long remained out of reach for drug development. The main obstacle was the limited understanding of how these compounds ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / A partner's death can hit harder when finances are unstable

Grief over the sudden death of a partner leads 1 in 6 surviving partners to experience such severe psychological distress that they begin taking sedatives or antidepressants. If the death also results in a noticeable loss ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Parenting styles play a key role in shaping teen mental health

Mental health is a global crisis, with more than 1 billion people affected by mental health conditions, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Young people are particularly affected, with suicide as the third leading ...

Dec 8, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Abdominal obesity and muscle loss increase the risk of death by 83% after age 50, study finds

A study by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil, in partnership with University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, concluded that the combination of abdominal fat and muscle loss ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Overweight & Obesity
Medical Xpress / Adding antibody treatment to chemo boosts outcomes for children with rare cancer

Children with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma which hasn't responded to initial treatment or that has relapsed may benefit from adding antibody treatment to usual chemotherapy, according to new results from a clinical ...

Dec 12, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Astronomers challenge 50-year-old quasar law

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been uncovered by an international team of astronomers.

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space