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Medical Xpress / Accelerated cancer drug approvals yield modest survival gains at significant Medicare cost

Early access to new cancer drugs, granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has provided mixed benefits for patients while costing Medicare billions of dollars, reveals research published ...

Dec 21, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Private donors pledge $1 billion for world's largest particle accelerator

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest.

Dec 18, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Japan's new flagship H3 rocket fails to put geolocation satellite into orbit

Japan's space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a setback for the country's new flagship rocket and its space launch program.

Dec 22, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese

Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market.

Dec 22, 2025 in Business
Tech Xplore / AI resurrections of dead celebrities amuse and rankle

In a parallel reality, Queen Elizabeth II gushes over cheese puffs, a gun-toting Saddam Hussein struts into a wrestling ring, and Pope John Paul II attempts skateboarding.

Dec 22, 2025 in Internet
Phys.org / Hot, humid weather during pregnancy poses far greater risks to child health than heat alone

The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it's become cliché to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther than even scientists and doctors realized.

Dec 21, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Women are better at recognizing illness in faces compared to men, study finds

Most people have either been told that they don't look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at some point in their lives. People often use nonverbal facial cues, such as drooping eyelids and pale ...

Dec 19, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also ...

Dec 20, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it reshaped urban ecosystems to such an extent that certain city-dwelling birds even began to develop ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Hubble captures rare collision in nearby planetary system

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system.

Dec 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to accelerate worldwide.

Dec 20, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Can community awareness campaigns in low-resource areas improve early diagnosis of colorectal cancer?

In low-resource regions such as Nigeria, most people with colorectal cancer are diagnosed too late for curative treatment options.

Dec 22, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer