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Phys.org / Nanozigzags, a new biomaterial, can enhance cancer immunotherapy efficacy by nearly 70%

Immunotherapy has emerged in recent years as a new cancer treatment that is gentler than traditional chemotherapy and causes milder side effects in patients. However, conventional dendritic cell (DC) immunotherapy shows inconsistent ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Tech Xplore / AI device with ion gel and graphene cuts machine learning power use 100-fold

In recent years, power consumption by machine learning technologies, represented by deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI), has increased exponentially, creating a serious social challenge. To address this ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Rethinking how we end a satellite's mission

At the end of their lives, most satellites fall to their death. Many of the smaller ones, including most of those going up as part of the "mega-constellations" currently under construction, are intended to burn up in the ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Image: Ball bearings as tools for studying physics in microgravity

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station's Destiny ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Physics
Tech Xplore / Google is at last letting users swap out embarrassing Gmail addresses without losing their data

Google has finally answered users' cries, allowing Gmail users to swap out embarrassing teenage email addresses.

Dec 29, 2025 in Internet
Medical Xpress / If someone's always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude?

Even as a kid, Alice Lovatt was always getting in trouble for being late.

Dec 31, 2025 in Attention deficit disorders
Phys.org / Dual-cation strategy boosts upconversion efficiency in stable oxide perovskites

Researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new way to significantly enhance upconversion luminescence in oxide perovskites, a class of materials known for their ...

Dec 29, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / 'Weights of gold in bullion': How the ancients invested in precious metals

"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments," proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd century CE), the Roman poet.

Dec 30, 2025 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / I grew up in the world's coldest city without central heating. Here's what the world can learn from us

On winter mornings in Harbin, where the air outside could freeze your eyelashes, I would wake up on a bed of warm earth.

Dec 30, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / AI model forecasts speech development in deaf children after cochlear implants

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes with 92% accuracy from one to three years after patients received cochlear implants (implanted ...

Tech Xplore / SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11% with $41bln investment

Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11% after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker of ChatGPT.

Dec 31, 2025 in Business
Medical Xpress / Coloradans snap up over-the-counter naloxone while hospitals offer the overdose-reversal drug to more patients

Colorado is coming closer to universal access to overdose-reversing medication as residents snap up an over-the-counter version and hospitals offer it to more patients.

Dec 31, 2025 in Medications