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Medical Xpress / How 'peacemakers' of the immune system could unlock long-term disease remission

"Peacemaker" immune cells could help treat diseases ranging from type 1 diabetes to neurodegeneration by restoring immune tolerance, according to a new paper in Frontiers in Science.

Jun 25, 2026
Phys.org / How languages recycle parts of words to avoid confusion

Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but also to manage something, like "run a company." In Spanish, "lengua" is both the word for tongue and ...

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / Nearly isotropic superconducting property revealed in trilayer nickelate

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Jinglei from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that the trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10-δ exhibits a nearly isotropic upper critical field under high ...

Jun 25, 2026
Tech Xplore / Western Australia police are scanning faces in public—and the law is not ready for the consequences

In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in marked vans at locations around Perth.

Jun 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Geometric neural 'map' may help bilingual brains navigate between languages

Anyone who speaks more than one language knows the feeling of expressing the same thought through entirely different linguistic lenses. A new study by researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine reveals ...

Jun 25, 2026
Science X / Could less caffeine be the smarter performance enhancer? Scientists find a surprising sweet spot

Think of an athlete eyeing the finish line—could a single shot of caffeine be the difference between a podium finish and a personal best? For decades, runners and cyclists have treated the stimulant as a near-magical performance ...

Jun 23, 2026
Phys.org / Morocco's hidden history: Archaeology, DNA and carbon dating rewrite the story of the ancient world

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centered on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. Northwest Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of Phoenician traders on the Moroccan ...

Jun 25, 2026
Phys.org / Shorter front-leg strides can be an early warning sign of dementia in senior dogs

Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases as their cognitive performance worsens. In contrast, chronological age itself was a poor predictor ...

Jun 25, 2026
Phys.org / First complete map of world's seagrass offers warnings and hope for conservation

It's time we gave seagrass the credit it's due. This hero of a plant protects coastlines, stores vast amounts of carbon and supports ecosystems that people and wildlife depend on. But we don't often hear about it when it ...

Jun 24, 2026
Phys.org / Broken time-reversal symmetry phase in kagome metals may establish conditions for superconductivity

Physicists have long suspected that a peculiar quantum state lurks inside a class of materials known as kagome metals, but proving its existence has been elusive. Now, a team led by Yeongkwan Kim at the Korea Advanced Institute ...

Jun 22, 2026
Tech Xplore / Scientists demonstrate solar-powered plastic recycling at real-world scale

Researchers have demonstrated how to use the power of the sun to turn plastic waste, such as drink bottles, into clean hydrogen fuel at a scale large enough to be genuinely useful in the real world, using a scalable approach.

Jun 24, 2026
Phys.org / Mathematicians unleash multifold speed boost for supercomputer simulations of molecules

More than 20% of the workload on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is spent simulating how atoms and molecules move—with applications ranging from material design to identifying drug interactions to understanding protein ...

Jun 24, 2026