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Phys.org / Physicists demonstrate the constancy of the speed of light with unprecedented accuracy

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth's ...

Nov 19, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Report yields roadmap for Americans to age with health, wealth, and social equity

To take maximum advantage of the added days, months, and years people enjoy because of modern health care and healthier habits, they need to achieve competency in several areas necessary for longer lives, claims a new Gerontological ...

20 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Population-specific genetic risk scores advance precision medicine for Han Chinese populations

Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) models for people of Han Chinese ancestry, achieving unprecedented accuracy in predicting risks for common diseases such ...

20 hours ago in Medical research
Tech Xplore / New ship power system keeps vessels running even if central control fails

The shipbuilding industry is on the verge of a major leap forward. Timo Alho's doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa introduces a pioneering power management strategy that prevents ship blackouts. In Alho's management ...

21 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here's why

The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.

Nov 19, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / How dark energy changed cosmology forever

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day view of the gravitational ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Simple blood test may someday allow for diagnosis of LATE dementia during life

Jijing Wang, Ph.D., and Hyun-Sik Yang, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Mass General Brigham, are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Molecular Neurodegeneration titled "Plasma TDP-43 is a potential biomarker ...

21 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that chronic stress and many ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Is social media subjecting Black women to radicalized digital policing?

Influencers use oppression, manipulation and weaponization to police Black women on social media, according to new research uncovering the entrenched nature of digital racism.

21 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / The simulated Milky Way: 100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10 thousand years. This feat was accomplished by combining ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / New cholesterol-lowering pill reduces bad cholesterol levels by almost 60%

Trials of a new cholesterol-lowering pill have shown promising results for people with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a genetic disorder that leads to high levels of LDL cholesterol.

Nov 19, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Progress on overdose deaths could be jeopardized by federal cuts, critics say

The Trump administration has made deep cuts to the main federal agency focused on fighting opioid addiction, potentially jeopardizing the nation's recent progress on reducing overdose deaths, some public health officials ...

23 hours ago in Addiction