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Medical Xpress / PFAS leave fingerprints in your blood—researchers are beginning to read these clues
Virtually every living thing on Earth, from Patagonian penguins to newborn human babies, has been touched by the synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. In fact, you would be hard pressed ...
Tech Xplore / Propelling the world's giant ships into the future with new sail systems
Modern sails on large ships are becoming increasingly common to save fuel—and also the climate. Now a research team is looking at how to maximize their benefits, and that turns out to be more complicated than anticipated.
Phys.org / Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered
It's 2234, you're on your annual class field trip touring exoplanets, and your teacher informs everyone they can pick one more exoplanetary system to explore before heading back to Earth. You and your classmates are exhausted ...
Medical Xpress / Global rules could cut costs and speed access to GLP-1 drugs
FDA-approved carbon copies of brand-name drugs with expired patents—over the last 30 years, these generic drugs have saved trillions of dollars for hundreds of millions of people.
Medical Xpress / The dangers of legitimizing doping
In Las Vegas May 2026, athletes compete in an international sporting event that explicitly allows them to use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). The Enhanced Games openly encourages competitors to use substances banned in ...
Phys.org / Feral horse numbers in Australia's Alps are on the rise again: It's time to act
Last year, we noted early signs of recovery in Australia's high country, following the reduction of feral horse numbers.
Phys.org / Cities are making it rain more—but not as much as scientists thought
After another spell of wet weather along Australia's east coast, with storms, heavy rain and flash flooding across Sydney and parts of New South Wales, it is natural to ask whether our cities are shaping the rainfall that ...
Phys.org / Almost 20% of Australian students don't finish school—these 3 things can help them stay
The latest data on Australian schooling shows about 81.5% of Year 10 students go on to Year 12.
Medical Xpress / The link between HIV and chronic pain
Over half of the people carrying HIV experience chronic pain at some point, which is difficult to treat. In a new JNeurosci paper, Hui-Lin Pan, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and colleagues used mice ...
Phys.org / New study has shone a new light on searching for habitable worlds
When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the most extreme, radiation-blasted environments imaginable. Not exactly the kind of place you'd expect to find a planet, ...
Medical Xpress / Novel radiotracer images overactive adrenal glands to avoid invasive primary aldosteronism procedure
A new first-in-human study has validated a PET radiotracer that can effectively image overactive adrenal glands, offering an alternative to the highly invasive procedure currently utilized to diagnose primary aldosteronism. ...
Phys.org / AI to rescue Australian wildlife research drowning in data
The power of AI has been harnessed to rapidly clear a photography bottleneck and bring greater coordination and computing power to efforts to save Australian animals from extinction. Developed by researchers at The University ...
