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Phys.org / Over a decade in the making: Lanthanide nanocrystals illuminate new possibilities

In a discovery shaped by more than a decade of steady, incremental effort rather than a dramatic breakthrough, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and their collaborators demonstrated that great ideas ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Back to the beach: Why did evolution return some animals to the water?

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens of major mammal and ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Early brain differences may explain sex-specific risks for addiction

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a family history of substance ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / What happens when your immune system hijacks your brain

"My year of unraveling" is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.

Nov 22, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed

Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI) among tens of thousands of veterans of the Persian Gulf War, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Medical Xpress / Genetic events that can trigger leukemia in patients with a rare disorder deciphered

Two parallel and complementary studies conducted by the IDIBELL team led by Dr. Alessandra Giorgetti have succeeded in recreating models of GATA2 deficiency disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects fewer than 1 million ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Tech Xplore / How small can optical computers get? Scaling laws reveal new strategies

By studying the theoretical limits of how light can be used to perform computation, Cornell researchers have uncovered new insights and strategies for designing energy-efficient optical computing systems.

Phys.org / Quantum calculations expose hidden chemistry of ice

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical reactions that have puzzled scientists for decades.

Nov 20, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / CD21 downregulation found to trigger harmful B cells in lupus

Our body's immune system is quick to spring into action when it spots a foreign object that shouldn't be there. Sometimes the same defense mechanism can get confused and end up attacking the very cells it's meant to protect, ...

Medical Xpress / Marine bacteria show potent antitumor effects against colorectal cancer

A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), has discovered that the marine bacterium Photobacterium ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Watching gold's atomic structure change at 10 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties. Understanding matter in this ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Soft robot powered by edible pneumatic battery and actuator

Using common kitchen ingredients such as citric acid and sodium bicarbonate, scientists have created an edible pneumatic battery and valve system to power soft robots.

Nov 17, 2025 in Robotics