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Phys.org / What happened after the fast-food pay raise in California? New data explains

Fast-food workers in California may be earning more money, but their employers are cutting their hours to make up for the cost of higher pay. That's from a new study published in Applied Economic Letters in early March. Northeastern ...

Apr 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / How the brain replays past emotional experiences during sleep

For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to uncover the neural processes that allow humans and various other animals to recall emotional experiences of past events. Past studies have identified a network of brain regions ...

Apr 26, 2026
Phys.org / Two suns are better than one—planets thrive around binary stars

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research from astrophysicists at the University of Lancashire. Binary stars are common in our galaxy, yet for ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Beer and cannabis could share 'sex switch,' study finds

Researchers at University College Dublin have identified a genetic "switch" that determines the sex of cannabis plants, and found the same system may exist in hops. The study, published in New Phytologist, pinpoints a specific ...

Apr 27, 2026
Tech Xplore / No batteries, just body heat: Demonstrating the potential of battery-free sensing

As devices for wireless sensing systems become smaller and more complex, finding suitable power sources for them is becoming increasingly difficult. However, advances in low-power sensing technology may allow such systems ...

Apr 27, 2026
Science X / Platypus gets more exotic origin story, as this bigger swimmer ruled ancient Australian lakes beside dolphins

Australia's platypus, one of the world's most enigmatic animals, had a more exotic origin story, according to an exciting discovery by Flinders University paleontologists. They have described rare 25-million-year-old fossils ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Aligned cells may explain why some wounds heal faster than others

Understanding how wounds heal after injury could be a step closer thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, builds on previous ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Light pollution alters food webs along riverbanks, finds study

Artificial light at night not only alters the landscape, but also profoundly disrupts natural ecosystems. A recent study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau shows that light pollution can significantly disrupt the ...

Apr 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Children may be born with two complex cognitive functions already established, research reveals

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the brain in young children—matching ...

Apr 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Minimally invasive procedure outperforms drugs for advanced atrial fibrillation

A minimally invasive heart procedure may be a better first-line treatment than medication for people living with advanced forms of atrial fibrillation, according to a major international clinical trial led by researchers ...

Apr 27, 2026
Phys.org / Rivers worldwide reveal greenhouse gas rise that's been overlooked for decades

Rivers worldwide are under severe stress: they are warming, losing oxygen, and as a result emitting increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now quantified these ...

Apr 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Drugging the undruggable: Cancer's slipperiest targets finally meet their match

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer have developed a new way to target proteins long considered "undruggable," opening the door to new treatments for prostate cancer and other serious diseases. ...

Apr 27, 2026