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Medical Xpress / Europe's endocrine community calls for policy action as growing demand puts hormone health workforce under pressure

The Prague Declaration and accompanying white paper, "Endocrine Workforce 2026: Recommendations for a Healthier Endocrine Future," set out 29 recommendations informed by ESE's State of Endocrinology surveys, the first comprehensive ...

15 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Is it possible to slow down the development of AI?

Top AI executives say they want to slow the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence development, but competition, U.S. government reluctance and geopolitical factors stand in the way.

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Flashbulb memories of 9/11 shift over time despite lasting certainty

How did you first learn of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001? Was it your mother's panicked phone call? Your roommate shaking you awake with the news? The anxious chatter on your commuter train? No matter how you answer, research ...

14 hours ago
Tech Xplore / New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate

New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity's survival, and whether the companies developing ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Aortic structure may affect midlife rise in pulse pressure, aortic stiffness in women

Contradicting conventional wisdom, menopause may not be the driving force behind an increase in aortic stiffness in women after midlife, according to new, independent research published today in Hypertension.

17 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Electric mobility brings Africa's energy transition into the wild

Joshua Kijape eases his motorcycle through the tall grass, listening for movement in the bush. There is no engine rumble, no exhaust and little warning for anything ahead.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Why are the stars around our galaxy's black hole missing their companions?

A new study suggests that the young stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole may have a surprisingly ordinary origin. But the black hole's influence may be what makes their origin look more exotic than it really ...

Sep 12, 2026
Phys.org / A photon that challenges Einstein: According to current physics, it should never have reached Earth

How did a photon survive a journey of more than 2 billion light-years when, according to known physics, it should have been absorbed long before reaching Earth? This is the question at the heart of a new study by Giorgio ...

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / Luminescence dating pushes age of South Dakota's Mammoth Site back by more than 100,000 years

Deep within an ancient sinkhole lie the remains of dozens of mammoths, prehistoric wanderers who waded into the warm springs to their deaths. These deaths had long been accepted as having occurred roughly 26,000 years ago, ...

Sep 13, 2026
Phys.org / Big supernova dataset challenges dark energy theory

The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion. Researchers at The University of Queensland's ...

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / Do black holes grow along with the universe? A new study says yes

We know the universe is constantly expanding. We also know that gravitationally bound objects, such as solar systems and black holes, seem to be immune to that expansion. But a new paper by theoretical physicists Valerio ...

Sep 8, 2026
Phys.org / Brain's ability to hear a musical beat remains distinctly human, study suggests

The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—feature of the brain. In a wide-ranging critical review, Gábor Háden of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural ...

Sep 11, 2026