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Medical Xpress / Watching live sports together boosts oxytocin and synchronizes heartbeats, study finds

Social connections are known to contribute greatly to people's psychological and emotional well-being. In fact, difficulties socializing and bonding with others have been linked to various psychiatric conditions, including ...

Jul 19, 2026
Tech Xplore / India's domestic workers go online as instant services boom

Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bed sheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.

Jul 22, 2026
Phys.org / Children and monkeys share common understanding of geometry

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creatures on Earth. However, some concepts—geometry, ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / An Australian woman gives birth to rare identical quadruplet girls

An Australian woman has given birth to identical quadruplet girls after a pregnancy doctors described as incredibly rare.

Jul 22, 2026
Phys.org / How sea anemone cells reform into an organism

Researchers at the University of Vienna have discovered a key mechanism that enables sea anemones to regenerate into fully developed organisms from disorganized clusters of cells. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / Indigenous knowledge key to building healthier and more sustainable food systems

Traditional and Indigenous knowledge could play a vital role in addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health and nutrition, according to a new review ...

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / New wasp species named after Ernest Hemingway amid efforts to control destructive sugar beet pest

Earth remains full of undiscovered species and unexplored interactions that continue to fascinate us, including, in the most ordinary places, the fields where our food is grown.

Jul 21, 2026
Medical Xpress / Synthetic peptide blocks key asthma inflammation switch in cells and mice

A team from the University of Bonn and the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center (FZB) has discovered a previously unknown mechanism of action for a synthetic peptide that mitigates excessive inflammatory responses ...

Jul 21, 2026
Tech Xplore / Hidden prompts can plant false memories in AI agents, researchers warn

Large language models (LLMs), the computational algorithms underpinning ChatGPT, Gemini and other artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational platforms, are now widely used worldwide. These models can rapidly answer ...

Jul 19, 2026
Tech Xplore / Trusting me, trusting you: How researchers are redesigning relationships between humans and intelligent machines

From the Ferranti Mark I to empathetic AI, Manchester researchers are exploring how intelligent machines can understand human behavior, respond to social cues and earn trust in our workplaces, hospitals and homes.

Jul 21, 2026
Phys.org / New web tool maps fossil locations across ancient continents in seconds

Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, determining a location in the past is a challenge that requires refined computational tools to process ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Largest genetic analysis of borderline personality disorder identifies 11 risk regions and nine genes

An international team led by the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim has presented the largest genome-wide association study on borderline personality disorder to date. Data from about 13,000 affected people and ...

Jul 20, 2026