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Medical Xpress / Slow-dividing breast cancer cells may explain relapses decades after treatment

A new study by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered a hidden mechanism explaining why breast cancer can return many years after successful treatment. Published in Nature Communications, the research reveals ...

May 11, 2026
Phys.org / Alaska's near‑record landslide tsunami sent a wave 1,580 feet up the fjord walls

On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a landslide from the adjacent mountain ...

May 10, 2026
Tech Xplore / South Korea floats AI profit social tax as tech giants boom

A top South Korean official has proposed a tax on AI profits to be redistributed among society as a semiconductor boom drives massive earnings for tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix.

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / The robotic penguin that makes endoscopy optional

Researchers at the TechMed Center of the University of Twente have built a swallowable soft robot that samples stomach fluid and measures acidity in real time. The robot has no battery, chip, nor any other electronics. Health ...

May 11, 2026
Phys.org / Old plant populations offer new clues to climate resilience

When scientists think about how plants will respond to climate change, they often look north. As temperatures rise, many species are expected to shift their ranges toward cooler regions with a loss of populations in warmer ...

May 11, 2026
Tech Xplore / A South Korean startup captures workers' techniques to develop AI brains for robots

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a ...

May 12, 2026
Tech Xplore / Contact between 2D and 3D perovskites reshapes crystal order, lifting efficiency to 26.25%

Perovskites, a class of material with a characteristic crystal structure that can convert light into electricity, have proved to be promising for the development of more affordable, flexible, and efficient solar cells than ...

May 9, 2026
Phys.org / What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur‑killing asteroid armageddon: A blow‑by‑blow account

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from the carcass of a dead horned dinosaur, Triceratops, that she was feeding on yesterday. She walks ...

May 11, 2026
Phys.org / New model finds the lower size limit for habitable exoplanets

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical. One variable of a planet ...

May 11, 2026
Science X / Think your gaze is steady? Think again. (And thank your wobbly eyes for sight)

Try to focus on one thing, and your eyes will keep moving around very slightly, even if you think you're holding them still. Such movements are called "fixational eye movements" (FEMs). Scientists have been trying to determine ...

May 9, 2026
Phys.org / The moon's largest impact crater scattered something priceless—and Artemis may be heading straight into it

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of the moon. The new details ...

May 8, 2026
Science X / This volcano didn't just erupt—it triggered a hidden atmospheric cleanup scientists never expected to see

When the submarine volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai in the South Pacific erupted in January 2022, it was not only one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in modern times. The volcano also did something completely unexpected: ...

May 7, 2026