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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 ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Engineering
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
Medical Xpress / High-intensity training improves muscle function in inflammatory muscle disease, study suggests

High-intensity interval training boosts fitness and muscle endurance more effectively than traditional home exercise programs in people recently diagnosed with inflammatory muscle disease. That is the conclusion of a new ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Inflammatory disorders
Phys.org / Advanced tracking uncovers flapper skate hotspots on Scotland's deep seabed

Flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius), the world's largest skate species measuring over two meters in length, live hidden on the rugged seabed around Scotland. Their life in the darkness, deep underwater, makes it extremely ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Biology
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
Phys.org / Curiosity and focus found to set 'genius' dogs apart in object learning

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it could prove to be one of the keys to dogs' cognitive abilities, according to a study by the University of Portsmouth's Dog Cognition Center in England and the Friedrich Schiller ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Biology
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 / 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
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 ...

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 / Love hurts: Flashy feathers may put some male pheasant species' lives at risk

The male Lady Amherst's pheasant knows how to put on a show when it comes to attracting mates. As well as elaborate courtship displays, they will unfurl their golden feathers to form a cape around their neck, which can prove ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / RSV vaccines could offer protection against asthma

Belgian scientists from VIB and Ghent University (UGent), together with Danish collaborators, have uncovered compelling evidence that early-infancy infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) significantly increases ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Immunology