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Medical Xpress / New analysis points to low overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening

When women take part in breast cancer screening, they are informed that screening may detect cancers that would never have caused symptoms or problems during their lifetime. This is known as overdiagnosis.

Sep 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Fifty years after IL-2 discovery, researchers reflect on how it has transformed medicine

A discovery made 50 years ago helped establish the field of human retrovirology, advance understanding of the human immune system and contribute to a revolution in cancer treatment. A new perspective in Science examines that ...

Sep 14, 2026
Phys.org / Neutral radicals unlock porous organic semiconductors without chemical doping

Researchers at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) have developed a new strategy for producing covalent organic frameworks (COFs) ...

Sep 14, 2026
Phys.org / The surprising place where giant dinosaurs incubated their eggs

Finding a fossilized dinosaur egg is exceptionally rare, but finding a stash of more than 250 shell fragments in the chilly southern reaches of the planet is even more surprising. The discoveries come from southernmost Patagonia ...

Sep 9, 2026
Phys.org / Turning a potent greenhouse gas into a valuable pharmaceutical building block using light

The trifluoromethyl group, or CF₃, is widely used in pharmaceuticals. When added to organic molecules, it can improve metabolic stability and membrane permeability, making it highly valuable in drug development. One useful ...

Sep 14, 2026
Phys.org / Silicon nanosphere coatings deliver glossy, nonfading color on 3D surfaces

"Color coatings are expected to provide vivid color, brightness, gloss and long-term durability, yet no existing technology satisfies all of these requirements simultaneously," says Kobe University materials engineer Hiroshi ...

Sep 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Teen cannabis surveys may be missing rise in diagnosed disorder, study of 637,000 adolescents finds

New diagnoses of cannabis use disorder (CUD) among adolescents in Northern California began climbing after recreational cannabis was legalized in California in 2016, reversing a steady decline in the three years prior, according ...

Sep 14, 2026
Phys.org / Only 1 out of every 5 amphibian type localities in Ecuador are in protected areas

In taxonomy, the location where specimens used to formally describe a new species are collected is called a type locality. These sites can be thought of as the species' formal birthplace, much as the scientific article containing ...

Sep 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / Should we give self-aware AI systems a dignified death, leading futurologist asks

The question of how to ethically decommission an AI system may sound like the least of humanity's current concerns, but a world-renowned AI expert says it's a challenge we need to address now—before synthetic consciousness ...

Sep 14, 2026
Tech Xplore / Alarm over AI grows as divided U.S. Congress struggles to act

The U.S. Congress returned from recess Monday facing urgent warnings that artificial intelligence could spin dangerously out of control—and little agreement over whether, or how, Washington should intervene.

Sep 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Stroke diagnosis improved by AI support, multinational study finds

Dr. Chi Kyung (CK) Kim of the Department of Neurology at Korea University Guro Hospital and his research team successfully conducted a multinational validation of AI technology that precisely detects large vessel occlusion ...

Sep 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / UK-wide rectal cancer study helps improve radiotherapy standards across the country

A major UK-wide cancer study has helped establish new standards for planning and delivering radiotherapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, benefiting patients across the UK, including those in northeast Scotland.

Sep 14, 2026