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Phys.org / Job listings with wide pay ranges may deter female applicants

Pay range transparency laws that are intended to promote pay equity can inadvertently deter women from applying for those positions, thus perpetuating gender gaps in the workforce, according to research from the Cornell ILR ...

37 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Beating, 3D-printed heart model developed for surgical practice

Washington State University researchers have developed a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats, offering the chance for surgeons and medical students to rehearse important heart surgeries ...

47 minutes ago in Surgery
Medical Xpress / Pollution, noise and climate stress all pose a serious threat to heart health

In an unprecedented collaboration, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation have issued a joint statement calling for immediate ...

27 minutes ago in Cardiology
Tech Xplore / How AI could end online anonymity

The internet is rife with anonymous accounts as users adopt pseudonyms, sometimes for genuine reasons like speaking freely, and other times for nefarious ones. But this era of online privacy could be coming to a close. In ...

1 hour ago in Security
Phys.org / Most compact quadruple star system yet fits within an area the size of Jupiter's orbit

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly bound stars. This quadruple star system is described in a new study, published in Nature Communications, ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / SWOT satellite takes stock of world's river water

In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth's rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous model-based estimates. ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Portable CRISPR-based test detects four STIs, including syphilis, in under an hour

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first portable point-of-care test that detects four common sexually transmitted infections at once, in under ...

Phys.org / The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds

Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study ...

1 hour ago in Earth
Phys.org / NA62 Collaboration refines measurement of rare particle decay

The NA62 Collaboration has dramatically reduced the uncertainty in its measurement of an extremely rare particle decay, in results just presented at the 2026 La Thuile conference.

1 hour ago in Physics
Phys.org / Cockroaches that eat each other's wings become exclusive partners

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each other's wings.

2 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Astronomers discover TOI-5734 b, a hot sub-Neptune twice Earth's size

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern Hemisphere (HARPS-N), an international team of astronomers has discovered a hot sub-Neptune exoplanet ...

6 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Good vibrations: Playing music to cells reduces laryngeal cancer aggressiveness in lab tests

The continuous movement of the vocal cords weakens and eventually stops as laryngeal cancer progresses. Researchers have, for the first time, discovered that restoring cellular vibration reduces the aggressiveness of advanced ...

1 hour ago in Oncology & Cancer