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Tech Xplore / Huawei unveils new chip technologies as Chinese firm steps up the AI race with Nvidia

Chinese technology giant Huawei launched new chip technologies in a challenge to global leaders such as Nvidia that highlights the narrowing gap between China and the U.S. in artificial intelligence.

Sep 17, 2026
Phys.org / Ultrathin membranes unlock nano-infrared views of biomolecules in water

Very small biological samples and even individual biomolecules can now be examined under near-physiological conditions with high confidence at the BESSY II infrared beamline using a newly validated and improved technique: ...

Sep 16, 2026
Phys.org / Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life

From the Brontës' Haworth to Jane Austen's Bath, Wordsworth's Lake District and Thomas Hardy's Dorset, literary places continue to exert a powerful hold over readers.

Sep 17, 2026
Medical Xpress / Review finds inconsistent 'neurodivergence' language may complicate research and patient care

Researchers are warning that inconsistent use of the terms "neurodiversity" and "neurodivergence" in mental health research could obscure important differences between diagnoses and make findings harder to interpret. They ...

Sep 17, 2026
Phys.org / Small portfolio shifts could deliver major food sustainability gains, UK analysis finds

Leading UK food and drink manufacturers could significantly improve the overall nutrition and sustainability of their products by making changes to 10% or less of their existing product line, according to new research in ...

Sep 17, 2026
Phys.org / Ice Age carvers used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, study finds

Intricate designs engraved across the surface of 18,000-year-old female figurines carved from mammoth ivory were inspired by the distinctive growth patterns visible in the tusks, a new study published in the journal npj Heritage ...

Sep 16, 2026
Phys.org / Muon rings enable precise calibration of telescopes at the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Research initiated as part of a bachelor's thesis in physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has culminated in a new analytical description of the muon-based calibration of dual-mirror Cherenkov telescopes. ...

Sep 16, 2026
Phys.org / Fungi neutralize spruce defense mechanisms with sugar

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered a previously unknown strategy by which certain fungi neutralize spruce defense compounds. These fungi are introduced into trees by bark beetles, ...

Sep 16, 2026
Phys.org / Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth ...

Sep 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / It bends, but does not break: A new sustainable treatment for shaping wood

The Smart Materials research unit, coordinated by Athanassia Athanassiou, deputy scientific director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) in Genoa, Italy, has developed a new method ...

Sep 16, 2026
Medical Xpress / CAAR T-cell therapy offers a more targeted route for neurological autoimmune diseases

Researchers at DZNE and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin are working on a targeted therapy for neurological autoimmune diseases. So far, they have successfully tested their approach in mouse studies involving two such conditions. ...

Sep 16, 2026
Phys.org / Hedgehog coronaviruses may threaten cats more than humans, new study finds

Washington State University researchers have discovered how a group of coronaviruses circulating in hedgehogs invades host cells, a key to understanding their potential to jump between species and their risk of causing a ...

Sep 16, 2026