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Medical Xpress / One of the oldest psychedelics meets modern brain imaging

For millennia, people have used the psychedelic mescaline as a spiritual and religious tool. Mescaline is a naturally occurring chemical found in cacti, mainly peyote cacti, that are located in the Southwest United States ...

Jul 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / Common plastic additive makes stretchable OLED displays brighter and more elastic

The same class of chemical additive that makes plastic wrap pliable and vinyl flooring soft could be the key to unlocking the next generation of wearable displays. Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School ...

Jul 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI detects 'personalities' of individual 3D printers to cut manufacturing errors

Imagine buying three identical 3D printers. Despite being the same brand, the same model and even having similar serial numbers, each machine may behave slightly differently. Over time and at scale, these differences can ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Triassic inferno: Fires raged across Europe for millennia during past global warming

The end-Triassic mass extinction, 201 million years ago, is linked to volcanism that resulted from the break-up of Pangea and which pumped out vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, causing extreme global warming of 5 to ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Africa's wildfire season is actually getting shorter, scientists think they know why

Africa is home to around 70% of the world's burned area—the total area of land scorched by wildfires each year—making it the planet's biggest wildfire hotspot. Yet despite this, satellite observations have revealed an unexpected ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Thymus-derived hormone may suppress age-related inflammation and boost cancer therapy

Chronic, low-grade inflammation in the body—a phenomenon known as "inflammaging" because it increases with age—has been linked to many of today's leading causes of illness and death, including cancer, heart disease, metabolic ...

Jul 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / Microneedles may help light reach hard-to-treat skin cancers

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses a light-sensitive drug and a specific wavelength of light to destroy cancer cells. The treatment has become an important option for certain skin cancers because it can target diseased tissue ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Extreme precipitation in Central Asia connected to drought in mainland Southeast Asia

In much of Asia, the effects of climate change are felt through an increased frequency of extreme weather events, especially water-related ones. Droughts are becoming more common in mainland Southeast Asia, while periods ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Sleeping sickness parasite reveals enzyme weak spot that could guide safer drugs

African sleeping sickness and related diseases can be treated only with toxic and sometimes ineffective drugs. Now, University of Connecticut researchers show in Nucleic Acids Research that a crucial enzyme could be the key ...

Jul 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / 'Cellular behavioromics' reveals how immune cells swarm during sepsis

Despite the best efforts of intensive care unit (ICU) staff and physicians and the most advanced life support, Dr. Bryan Yipp, witnesses many deaths in the ICU attributed to sepsis. "Sepsis is the body's overwhelming immune ...

Jul 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / Deep-sea sponge geometry strengthens metamaterials and suppresses flow-driven vibrations

Along the vast ocean floor lives a species of glass sponge known as Venus' flower basket. Though delicate-looking, its exterior belies an exceptionally strong, lightweight skeleton that has intrigued scientists for the past ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Bee brains reveal how colonies divide work without central planning

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the universities in Cologne and Frankfurt/Main have investigated the role neural activity plays in this ...

Jul 20, 2026