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Tech Xplore / Elephant-inspired cement tiles cool buildings without electricity
Inspired by the cracked, water-trapping skin of elephants, Penn researchers have developed a low-cost cement tile that cools buildings by capturing and slowly evaporating water—turning a structural flaw into a climate solution.
Tech Xplore / Solar windows could harvest indoor light and sunlight while staying semi-transparent
Semi-transparent solar cells that could be added to windows to efficiently harvest energy from indoor light as well as the sun have been developed by an international team led by UCL researchers.
Science X / GenAI: Cognitive crutch or scaffold? Two offloading styles, two mental outcomes
It was in the year 2022 when students and working individuals began making use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for writing their essays or solving problems. The convenience of obtaining coherent text or some other ...
Medical Xpress / A mother's devotion to newborns begins in the brain, study suggests
New research has found that a hormone is responsible for making mothers' interactions with newborns feel rewarding rather than just necessary. The University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study, published in Science Advances, ...
Medical Xpress / Premature blood stem cell aging in sickle cell disease may be reversible
Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class of drugs, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Patients with sickle ...
Medical Xpress / Can AI chatbots make mental health worse? Study identifies five risky patterns
The use of generative AI has become so widespread that ChatGPT is gradually becoming a verb, much like Google and Photoshop. Hundreds of millions of people now use large language model (LLM)-based chatbots for advice on personal, ...
Phys.org / When a SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, scientists will be watching
On Aug. 5, 2026, an abandoned piece of space junk is predicted to crash into the moon near a spot called Einstein Crater. Astronomers will be watching because the collision and aftermath may be visible from Earth.
Phys.org / Transmissible cancer cells discovered in fish act more like parasites than traditional tumors
A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible cancer—the first identified in ...
Medical Xpress / Artery-on-a-chip helps predict stroke risk
Predicting an individual's risk of ischemic stroke is difficult because thrombosis embolization—the process of a blood clot detaching from the area where it formed, traveling and then sticking in another blood vessel—is based ...
Medical Xpress / New immune mechanism helps explain why ovarian cancer stops responding to chemotherapy
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a new mechanism behind the chemotherapy resistance that makes ovarian cancer so lethal. In a new study published in The Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, the researchers ...
Phys.org / Why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI
As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent Alpöge, a mathematician ...
Medical Xpress / A single RSV shot emerges as a promising new shield for infants at risk of severe disease
Viral infections that attack the lungs are among the leading reasons infants are hospitalized. A new treatment may offer protection against these infections that is as effective and safe as existing options but requires far ...
