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Phys.org / Italy displays paintings from an ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition

Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for 15 million euros ($17 million) in the Culture Ministry's buying spree of big-ticket pieces of the ...

Jul 1, 2026
Phys.org / MOF thin films reveal hidden dense packing, challenging decades of porous assumptions

Due to their high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are regarded as promising materials for innovative applications, which is why the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2025 for their discovery. They are used, ...

Jul 2, 2026
Phys.org / Austin neighborhood tap water tests uncover lead and arsenic in homes

For more than a decade, residents of Austin's Colony, a neighborhood in an unincorporated area of southeast Austin outside the city service area, have voiced concern about their tap water's intermittent discoloration and ...

Jul 2, 2026
Phys.org / Quantum computer simulates hadronization, reproducing string breaking with 104 qubits

By remotely accessing an IBM quantum computer, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully simulated a key process in particle physics: hadronization. Although based on a simplified model ...

Jun 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / COVID's lingering shadow faded after omicron—but not for everyone

Six years after the world first learned of COVID-19, the pandemic has faded into an unpleasant memory for many. For others, however, it never fully ended. A long-term study by Hiroshima University has found that while lingering ...

Jul 2, 2026
Phys.org / Fish in a polluted Mexican river may mate with the wrong species, leading to hybrid offspring

The byproducts of modern society appear to be messing with the love life of two tiny fish species that have long coexisted in Mexican rivers.

Jul 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Inhaled analgesia is as effective as morphine for early pain relief, study shows

Treating pain while in the field can be very demanding. Researchers have finally identified an effective alternative for providing pain relief during the earliest phase of prehospital care, when establishing intravenous access ...

Jul 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Australians missing out on 'major gap' between innovation and patient care

Promising health tools that seek to predict a person's risk of serious health problems before they happen are rarely being used in everyday health care, according to new Curtin University research. The review, published in ...

Jul 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Biomarker-matched drug combos shrink treatment-resistant melanoma in preclinical models

A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has identified a way to tailor drug combinations based on specific tumor biology to improve outcomes for treatment-resistant advanced melanoma.

Jul 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs are being misused by people struggling with eating disorders, research reveals

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), such as Ozempic or Wegovy, have revolutionized type 2 diabetes and weight-loss management, but they have also led to some unfortunate outcomes. A recent study in JAMA ...

Jun 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / You can dream while you're awake. The boundary between wakefulness and sleep is a lot blurrier than you'd think

Tonight, as you close your eyes in bed, something strange will happen to you: Your mind will drift from an ordinary thought to a dream, but it will be impossible to say exactly when it happened. We tend to imagine that the ...

Jul 3, 2026
Phys.org / Off-center stellar death points to wandering supermassive black hole stripped of its own galaxy

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named AT2024tvd. Findings suggest it is a wandering supermassive black hole—the kind that is not located at ...

Jun 28, 2026