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Medical Xpress / Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes can lower dengue risk by 70%, citywide experiment finds

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to severe bleeding and organ failure. Scientists are now using Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria ...

Medical Xpress / How to nurture a healthy relationship 365 days a year

The focus on Valentine's Day is, as The Beatles famously crooned, "love is all you need." But staying in love and growing together requires work and commitment.

Feb 16, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / OpenAI hires creator of 'OpenClaw' AI agent tool

OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday.

Feb 16, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / The balloon mission raising the bar for exoplanet science

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space telescope is valuable, ...

Feb 15, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Costa Rica digs up mastodon, giant sloth bones in major archaeological find

Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, officials announced Friday, calling it the biggest such find here in decades.

Feb 14, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / ByteDance vows to boost safeguards after AI model infringement claims

Chinese tech giant ByteDance said it was taking steps to "strengthen current safeguards" after Hollywood heavyweights accused its new AI video model of copyright infringement.

Feb 16, 2026 in Business
Phys.org / Why are new tea towels worse at drying dishes than older ones?

There's a peculiar ritual in many kitchens: reaching past the crisp, pristine tea towel hanging on the oven door to grab the threadbare, slightly graying one shoved in the drawer.

Feb 15, 2026 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the gentle dexterity of the ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Hollywood groups condemn ByteDance's AI video generator, claiming copyright infringement

A new artificial intelligence video generator from Beijing-based ByteDance, the creator of TikTok, is drawing the ire of Hollywood organizations that say Seedance 2.0 "blatantly" violates copyright and uses the likeness of ...

Feb 16, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Medical Xpress / Microfluidic chip finds viable eggs for IVF that doctors may have missed

Infertility affects approximately 8% to 12% of couples of reproductive age worldwide, and IVF (in vitro fertilization) is often the go-to treatment option. Typically, to increase the odds of a successful pregnancy, doctors ...

Feb 13, 2026 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Phys.org / Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with backbones to join them. ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Unique 'inside out' planetary system reveals rocky outer world

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside down, with a distant ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Astronomy & Space