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Phys.org / 9/11 responders passed effects of trauma to their children, study finds

Although it's been 25 years since the World Trade Center collapsed after terrorists flew commercial airplanes into each of the center's two towers, the trauma experienced by many first responders and recovery workers is still ...

Sep 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain blood flow responds differently to pain and touch, mouse study finds

When the brain is stimulated, blood flow increases. For 30 years, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), one of the most powerful windows into the human brain, has operated on the basis of this connection. fMRI doesn't ...

Sep 1, 2026
Phys.org / Screening tool amplifies tiny changes in protein levels within cells

Imagine a brain teaser where the challenge is to spot the difference between two nearly identical sandcastles. The only difference? The removal of three grains of sand. Scientists face a similarly exasperating challenge when ...

Sep 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Stress and depression, not heart damage, may drive long-term breast cancer fatigue

For breast cancer survivors, new research shows that feelings of depression and perceptions of psychological stress make the biggest difference in whether they experience fatigue up to two years after chemotherapy started.

Sep 1, 2026
Phys.org / Physicists take Hall effect in a new direction

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have uncovered a new phenomenon that challenges a longstanding assumption about how electronic materials respond to magnetic fields. The discovery broadens the fundamental understanding ...

Aug 31, 2026
Phys.org / Warming winters weaken New Hampshire forest's carbon sink over 20 years

Can we count on forests to continue absorbing the carbon dioxide that's warming our world? A new study from researchers at NAU and the University of New Hampshire says ... maybe not.

Sep 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cell therapy substantially reduces severe rheumatoid arthritis in first clinical trial

Immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy are used primarily to treat cancer. In the future, these patient-specific therapies, manufactured from patients' own immune cells, could also help cure autoimmune diseases. Six patients ...

Aug 27, 2026
Phys.org / Growing bacteria line up single-file, then buckle in liquid crystals

When scientists study bacteria that are not in a Petri dish or a test tube but in environments that more closely mimic their actual microbial habitats, they often find delightfully unexpected behaviors. For Sujit Datta, a ...

Sep 1, 2026
Dialog / Faint far-infrared radiation drives a correlated insulator-to-metal transition in magic-angle graphene

One of the central ideas in modern physics is the phase transition—a sudden transformation of the state of a material. We encounter phase transitions throughout everyday life: water freezes into ice, wax melts in the warmth ...

Aug 31, 2026
Medical Xpress / Atlas of the brain's striatum could guide researchers to new drug treatments

A region of the brain called the striatum is critical for many cognitive and motor functions, including decision-making, movement control, habit formation and reward processing. It also plays a role in addiction and is significantly ...

Sep 1, 2026
Dialog / Salt of the Earth: How Egypt's coastal sabkhas tell a story of climate and change

Have you ever walked across a salt flat so expansive it feels like another planet? That's what it's like standing in Egypt's coastal sabkhas—those otherworldly landscapes where the ground crunches beneath your feet and the ...

Sep 1, 2026
Tech Xplore / New method puts a twist on creating efficient micromixers

"Micromixer" might just sound like a fancy name for a tiny blender, but mixing liquids at the microliter scale is no simple task. Micromixers are essential components of microfluidic devices widely used across the pharmaceutical, ...

Sep 1, 2026