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Medical Xpress / Breast cancer risk models fall short for women with family history, study finds

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, St James's Hospital, and collaborating institutions have carried out the most comprehensive review to date of tools used to estimate breast cancer risk in women with a family history ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians from the University of ...

May 28, 2026
Tech Xplore / Transition to electric vehicles in Brazil and Mexico driven by domestic politics and global pressures, study shows

The transition to electric vehicles in Brazil and Mexico has been driven by domestic politics and global pressures, a new study says. Decisions have been made in both countries shaped by factors beyond emissions, costs or ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint server arXiv on May ...

May 31, 2026
Medical Xpress / Could violence prevention programs decrease tobacco use among teens? Yes, research suggests

One way to lower smoking rates among teens may be to address their exposure to violence, as an analysis by public health researchers at Brown University shows that the two are strongly linked.

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / RAS(ON) inhibitor doubles median overall survival in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer

A shift in the way people think about and treat pancreatic cancer could be on the horizon based on positive results from the pivotal randomized Phase III RASolute 302 trial comparing daraxonrasib to chemotherapy as second-line ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a process that was set in motion ...

May 27, 2026
Tech Xplore / Extraction method of pop music singing beats identification based on audio features

A study in the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology has developed an improved way to determine the underlying beat, or tempo, in recorded music. It addresses persistent issues in analyzing modern popular ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Perioperative apalutamide in high-risk localized or locally advanced prostate cancer reduces risk of metastasis, death

High-risk localized and locally advanced prostate cancer patients treated with apalutamide—a next generation neoadjuvant androgen-receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI)—plus hormone therapy before and after prostate cancer surgery ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Clinical trial shows tile-based radiation therapy lowers risk of recurrence in brain metastases

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that implanting collagen tiles during brain surgery to deliver targeted radiation therapy dramatically improved ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can ...

May 29, 2026
Phys.org / Supermassive black holes could be the universe's biggest planet nurseries

Supermassive black holes are the largest known black holes in the universe, sitting at the center of most large galaxies. They are sometimes described as cosmic monsters because they feed on surrounding gas and dust when ...

May 31, 2026