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Tech Xplore / SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11% with $41bln investment

Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11% after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker of ChatGPT.

Dec 31, 2025 in Business
Medical Xpress / Gestational diabetes rose every year in the US since 2016, study finds

Gestational diabetes rose every single year in the U.S. from 2016 through 2024, according to a new Northwestern Medicine analysis of more than 12 million U.S. births. The condition, which raises health risks for both mother ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Diabetes
Phys.org / Study uncovers how calcium controls insulin quality in the endoplasmic reticulum

Calcium (Ca2+) drives many cellular functions, though the way it controls quality of proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a cellular organelle that synthesizes and transports proteins, has not been elucidated. This ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Breast cancer drug boosts leukemia treatment: Unexpected duo shows promise in overcoming resistance

A research team at Oregon Health & Science University has discovered a promising new drug combination that may help people with acute myeloid leukemia overcome resistance to one of the most common frontline therapies.

Dec 29, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / B cells temporarily regain stem-like flexibility, increasing risk of lymphoma formation

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more flexible (plastic) stem-cell-like ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Detecting the hidden magnetism of altermagnets

Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is found in conventional systems. In conventional antiferromagnets, the sublattices are linked by simple ...

Dec 26, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Southern California's unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city

Five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a single industrial block in Vernon is drawing as much electricity as a small town.

Dec 31, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / 16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters—capable of sinking their claws even into solid stone.

Dec 26, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Novel model to reveal deep-sea black coral symbiotic system

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding the adaptive strategies of the deep-sea black coral Bathypathes pseudoalternata (B. pseudoalternata) and its symbiotic microbiome. The study has been ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

Dec 25, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / How did Bronze Age plague spread? A sheep might solve the mystery

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people.

Dec 26, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / AI-powered knowledge graph links heart images to genes and drug predictions

Knowledge graphs are a powerful tool for bringing together information from biological databases and linking what is already known about genes, diseases, treatments, molecular pathways and symptoms in a structured network. ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Cardiology