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Phys.org / Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers

Ants live in highly organized colonies and cooperate daily to tackle a wide range of problems. Their striking group behaviors have fascinated biologists for centuries and even inspired the development of various artificial ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / New therapy eliminates gum disease bacterium while preserving beneficial oral microbes

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have created an innovative treatment for periodontitis that targets and eliminates harmful bacteria while preserving beneficial oral microbes essential for health. The findings were ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / 'Little red dots' may be pulsating monster stars that created early-universe black holes

Astronomers have speculated about the mysterious "little red dots" seen through the James Webb Space Telescope's images of the early universe: They could be galaxies, black holes, quasi-stars, starbursts ... or something ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Miniaturized laser technology paves the way for fundamental physics experiments in space

An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing atomic quantum gas mixtures with an unprecedented particle flux. In the journal Nature Communications, the scientists report on experiments conducted with the ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gene mutations behind serious bone marrow conditions identified

Inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, or IBMFS, describes a group of disorders in which inherited genetic abnormalities impair the bone marrow's ability to produce sufficient healthy blood cells. Patients with these disorders ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / A lesser-known SARS-CoV-2 protein may offer clues to long COVID symptoms

Six years after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are still uncovering surprising ways the virus can wreak havoc on the body. A new UCLA study published in Science Advances describes a previously unrecognized ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Backpack lab finds wastewater contamination and drug-resistant bacteria in Galápagos waters

From routine surgeries to cancer treatment, modern medicine depends on drugs that can fight infections caused by microbes such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. But some microbes are becoming resistant to the drugs ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Air-stable, ultrathin superconductors developed for more scalable quantum devices

Super-thin superconducting materials, which are only one or a few atoms thick, have unique properties scientists can leverage to produce more compact, scalable, and efficient quantum devices. But these fragile materials degrade ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / New semiconductor maser operates continuously above room temperature

Lasers have become indispensable in everyday life and research, with applications ranging from data transmission and metrology to manufacturing. Masers, by contrast, have so far found hardly any practical applications.

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Simulations hint at a hidden population of companionless black holes

So far, almost all stellar-mass black holes detected by astronomers have been found in binary systems. However, astronomers have long suspected that these binary black holes are the exception and that, within the Milky Way, ...

Aug 3, 2026
Phys.org / Turning one of the world's most difficult plastics into premium lubricant

Virginia Tech chemist and chemical engineer Guoliang "Greg" Liu and his lab have developed a process that converts the plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into polyalphaolefin, a key component in lubricants such as engine oil. ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Rare bone disease often goes untreated while patients quietly live with chronic pain

Teeth and bones are among the hardest structures in the human body, but certain inherited conditions can rob them of that strength. One of them is hypophosphatasia (HPP), a rare, lifelong genetic bone disorder that disrupts ...

Aug 3, 2026