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Tech Xplore / VR and gaming are adding a kick to taekwondo

When Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Thanh Hien Linh stepped into her first virtual taekwondo competition in Singapore in 2024, she had little idea what she was doing.

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / 1 in 5 relatives of breast and ovarian cancer patients in Estonia carry dangerous cancer-linked genes, study shows

In 2013, Angelina Jolie inspired a wave of testing for pathogenic variants of the gene BRCA1 by announcing that she carried a variant that left her at such high risk of breast cancer that she chose a preventive mastectomy. ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Rates of infertility are rising among women over 35

Rates of infertility and the need for fertility care are rising worldwide among women ages 35 to 49, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health. In 2023, about 53.6 million ...

12 hours ago
Phys.org / Paleontologists make 'one in a million' discovery of soft tissue preserved in 450-million-year-old fossil

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to flourish in Earth's earliest ...

Jul 6, 2026
Phys.org / Reinventing pediatric dental training in Singapore

Managing pediatric dental patients can be stressful for dental students and inexperienced practitioners, particularly when communicating with fearful and uncooperative children. Previous studies found that dental students ...

14 hours ago
Medical Xpress / National cancer disparities report released

On June 24, 2026, the AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2026 was published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

15 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Pembrolizumab-belzutifan tied to improved disease-free survival in renal cell carcinoma

For patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, pembrolizumab-belzutifan yields significantly higher disease-free survival, according to a study published in the July 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

23 hours ago
Phys.org / Death toll from China storms rises to 15, hundreds injured

The death toll from devastating storms in parts of China rose to 15 on Tuesday, with hundreds more injured and tens of thousands evacuated, state media reported, as President Xi Jinping urged "all-out" rescue efforts.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Cave finds reveal modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared long-term cultural continuity

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, indicating that the two species may have shared much more than ...

Jul 6, 2026
Phys.org / Larger brain, smaller face: Human evolution took a different course than previously thought

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and jaw—may be far less attributable ...

Jul 6, 2026
Phys.org / Planned 1.7 million satellites 'devastating' for astronomy: Study

The 1.7 million satellites that companies are aiming to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years will have "devastating consequences for astronomy," new research warned Wednesday.

Jul 4, 2026
Phys.org / Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics and gravity. Quantum mechanics explains the behavior of the microscopic ...

Jul 2, 2026