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Tech Xplore / Google parent Alphabet to raise $80 bn to fuel AI expansion

Google parent Alphabet announced Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in stock to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / U.S. overdose deaths dropped in 2024 amid uneven progress, study finds

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that U.S. overdose death rates declined dramatically between 2023 and 2024, marking the first recorded drop in all four waves of the nation's overdose crisis. ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians from the University of ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Indigenous-led project sets new benchmarks for ethical cultural medicine research

Traditional Knowledge has supported health and well-being practices for thousands of years using medicinal plants and cultural medicines. But how can that knowledge be applied appropriately for use in scientific drug discovery?

17 hours ago
Tech Xplore / AI unearths soccer talent beyond scouts' radar

Brazilian teenager Leo Veiga had almost given up on his dream of becoming a professional soccer player when artificial intelligence helped him secure a spot in the youth ranks of an Italian club.

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a process that was set in motion ...

May 27, 2026
Phys.org / JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint server arXiv on May ...

May 31, 2026
Phys.org / First direct view tracks planet-forming disk spinning around AB Aurigae

The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions from the dust grains within it. The disk in question surrounds the ...

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can ...

May 29, 2026
Phys.org / Listening to the sun reveals previously hidden changes to solar cycle

Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity cycles, according to a new study.

May 27, 2026
Phys.org / One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent planetary shuffling billions ...

Jun 1, 2026
Phys.org / The solar wind's secret hammerheads and what they tell us about heat in space

The proton sharks showed up on a Friday. In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA's Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small group of scientists were scrolling through visualizations of their data showing solar winds. Suddenly, ...

May 28, 2026