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Medical Xpress / mRNA flu vaccine offers immune protection against diverse strains

A new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that an investigational mRNA influenza vaccine helps the immune system recognize a wider range of influenza viruses than today's ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Pixels preserve world's rarest porpoise to 3D digital archive as extinction risk grows

The vaquita (Phocoena sinus), an elusive porpoise found only in the shallow waters of Mexico's northern Gulf of California, is one of the rarest and most endangered marine mammals on Earth. Measuring about 5 feet (1.5 meters) ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Devoted dads and citizen science: The evolution of parental care in harvestmen spiders is uncovered

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Why Arctic sea ice loss could reshape the Gulf Stream's future

The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. To predict how ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean may develop, one needs to know what drives them. The hunt for driving forces has led ...

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Clinician–scientists identify brain network linked to deadliest childhood brain cancer

A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain cancer, has been identified by UCL clinician-scientists, raising the possibility of entirely new ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Reforestation's effects on water resources may depend on global warming level

Planting trees is widely promoted as a natural solution to climate change. But a new study led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences finds that the hydrological consequences ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Chemists reveal one-step 'alkyl swap' that rewrites key amines for drug discovery

For more than a century, chemists have been building complex molecules step by step—bond by bond, atom by atom. But what if, instead of painstakingly reassembling molecules, they could be directly "rewritten"? This is exactly ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / A waltz over evolutionary timescales: Why it's so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance

"Love makes fools of all of us," wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering necks hop, pirouette, ...

Jun 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Nanoengineered wood sets new record for transformer insulation

The world's power grid is straining under the surge in electricity demand from data centers, electric vehicles and renewable energy. And a century-old technology, the power transformer, must support this dramatic increase. ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Water-based nanoprinting moves metal films onto delicate 3D surfaces without damage

A new technology allows metal circuits floating on water to be transferred directly onto any desired surface. A South Korean research team has introduced a novel technique capable of transferring ultra-fine nanocircuits onto ...

Jun 15, 2026
Phys.org / Fusion reactors could be monitored for covert plutonium production

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically limitless energy. But before this can happen, it will be critical to ensure that reactors cannot be covertly ...

Jun 13, 2026
Phys.org / ALMA makes first direct detection of star-forming gas in early galaxies

In the early universe, the first galaxies began to take shape roughly a million years after the Big Bang. Within these young systems, stars formed from vast reservoirs of cold gas, gradually building the structures we see ...

Jun 15, 2026