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Tech Xplore / The insect-inspired bionic eye that sees, smells and guides robots

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information several times faster than the human eye. Inspired by this biological masterpiece, researchers at the ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Robotics
Phys.org / Worried AI means you won't get a job when you graduate? Here's what the research says

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI "tsunami" wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years.

Feb 15, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Nearly every state in the US has dyslexia laws, but our research shows limited change for struggling readers

Families with children who have dyslexia have long pushed lawmakers to respond to a pressing concern: Too many young students struggle for years to learn to read, before schools recognize the problem.

Feb 15, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Syntax discovered in the warbling duets of wild parrots

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites. Research has shown that some ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Cybersecurity spending may pay off: Study links readiness to stronger returns

The infamous Target data breach during the 2013 holiday shopping season, which cost the company more than $200 million in damages, has since been hailed as a landmark case in cybersecurity. Exposure to these threats has only ...

Feb 14, 2026 in Security
Medical Xpress / Pre-exercise sexual activity does not harm strength or endurance in male athletes, finds new study

Athletes may not have to observe pre-game abstinence before a big event after all. According to new research, sexual activity before intense exercise doesn't slow down an athlete's performance—in some cases, it may even ...

Medical Xpress / Obesity rates are rising, despite GLP-1s. What does it mean?

By 2030, nearly half of all American adults will have obesity, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index ...

Feb 15, 2026 in Overweight & Obesity
Phys.org / Major earthquakes are just as random as smaller ones

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as it turns out, is not ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / NOvA maps neutrino oscillations over 500 miles with 10 years of data

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of neutrinos, dubbed muon, ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Single DMT dose treats stress-induced depression more effectively than Prozac in mice

Psychedelics are psychoactive substances that trigger unusual mental states, also referred to as "trips," altering the perceptions, thoughts, and emotions of those taking them and typically inducing hallucinations. Over the ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.

Feb 14, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks like literature searches ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Other Sciences