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Medical Xpress / Q&A: Why wealth fails to shield Black Americans from pregnancy risks

It's widely known that low-income Black women suffer far higher maternal health risks than low- income white mothers, often because they lack access to quality health care. But in a new book, UC Berkeley law professor Khiara ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / International experts call for end to routine reporting of 'corrected' calcium

An international coalition of experts in laboratory medicine, osteoporosis, and chronic kidney disease is calling for laboratories to stop routinely reporting albumin-adjusted ("corrected") calcium, arguing that the longstanding ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Q&A: Is it time to expand our thinking about dark matter? A new study says yes

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters. Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, a leading theorist on the nature of black holes and dark ...

May 14, 2026
Phys.org / String theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the universe, physicists show

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up. You might think you hit ...

May 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / A new way to recharge aging muscle stem cells by restoring a key metabolic component

Losing muscle strength is a natural part of aging. At the core of this decline is a drop in the number of muscle stem cells (MuSCs), the specialized cells responsible for maintaining and regenerating muscle tissue throughout ...

May 18, 2026
Phys.org / Webb discovers one of the universe's first galaxies

Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's first stars and is one of the most chemically primitive galaxies observed ...

May 14, 2026
Phys.org / Ultrafast switching device unlocks low-power optical-to-electrical conversion for AI hardware

Modern energy demands are soaring as technologies like AI and IoT become more common, and researchers have been working hard to develop hardware that can keep up. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has ...

May 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Trump demands Medicaid data for deportation. Some states go a step further

Several states have joined President Donald Trump's deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further—by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement.

18 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Scientists develop near-invisible solar cells that could turn windows into power generators

Imagine a car whose windows and sunroof can help top up its battery while parked under the sun, or a pair of smart glasses whose lenses can harvest light to power built-in electronics.

May 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / FDA blocked melanoma drug as confusion reigned under Makary

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Coal pollution is cutting solar power output worldwide, study finds

New research led by the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL) has revealed that pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations, ...

May 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the ...

May 18, 2026