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Medical Xpress / AMH fertility tests surge but cannot predict natural pregnancy

Increasing numbers of Australian women are using a blood test to assess their fertility, but new research suggests it may not provide the answers many are looking for. A study led by Flinders University and published in the ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Q&A: The overlooked networks of heat resilience within communities

As extreme heat becomes more frequent and severe, many people are turning to informal adaptation strategies—rigging up plastic sheeting overhead for shade, sharing water at a community tap and creating neighborhood cooling ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Study answers long-debated structural question of primate cone photoreceptors

For more than 60 years, scientists have debated a basic structural question about cone photoreceptors, the cells that let vertebrates see color: Are their light-sensing disk membranes closed off inside the cell, or are they ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Researchers lead statewide effort to reduce cancer risk for firefighters

Inside the hazard simulation lab at Iowa State University, Guowen Song watches a column of engineered smoke curl upward from a controlled burn.

15 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Keeping elite women's basketball players healthy during international competition

Two UCLA Health doctors, both faculty in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and team physicians for UCLA Athletics and professional sports teams, are accompanying the 2026 ...

16 hours ago
Phys.org / Anthropic researcher resigns with warning about the dangers of AI development

An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development, echoing concerns raised inside and outside of ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / New anaerobic reactor co-digests biomanufacturing waste and wastewater for energy recovery

Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College, have developed the Anaerobic Baffled Continuous Stirring (ABCS) reactor, a device capable of simultaneously ...

8 hours ago
Phys.org / A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

The prediction that this season's El Niño phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community, which has warned of its impact on the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, home to the ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Kill the cookie banner, digital rights groups urge EU

It's time for the European Union to kill those pesky cookie banners seeking users' consent on websites, nearly 20 groups and academics demanded Thursday.

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Report maps pathways for accelerating environmental solutions through positive tipping points

New research from The Earthshot Prize and the University of Exeter's Green Futures Solutions team, published today, reveals 51 environmental solutions that can trigger rapid, transformative change to repair our planet within ...

12 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Chinese electric bike imports surge as Africa's EV investments diversify

Africa's imports of electric motorcycles and three-wheelers from China rose sharply in the first half of 2026, an increase that highlights a divide in the continent's transition to electric vehicles.

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