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Medical Xpress / Scientists make surprising discovery and find a possible new ally in the opioid crisis

Scientists at Bowling Green State University recently made a series of discoveries that could have wide-ranging implications for the future of the national opioid crisis. Through a partnership with the Toledo Lucas County ...

May 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI flags heart risks in breast cancer patients

UBC Okanagan researchers, working with scientists at BC Cancer–Kelowna, have developed a groundbreaking AI model that can help identify breast cancer patients who may face a double-threat—that of cancer and cardiovascular ...

May 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Keratin 17 drives resistance in pancreatic cancer, study finds

A national team of cancer researchers led by Drs. Kenneth Shroyer and Natalia Marchenko at Stony Brook Medicine, and Dr. Luisa Escobar-Hoyos of Yale School of Medicine, investigated the role of Keratin 17 (K17) in the most ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / A SpaceX rocket will soon hit the moon, raising concerns about handing over space launches to private companies

SpaceX seems to have mistaken shooting for the moon with shooting at the moon. Forecast to occur on Aug. 5, a five-story-long piece of a rocket from one of the private space exploration company's recent lunar missions is ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / Field-ready tool identifies rare and zoonotic parasitic worms missed by standard tests

Parasitic nematodes (commonly known as roundworms) are a large, diverse and poorly studied group of disease-causing organisms that severely impact the health of humans and animals. They infect almost one-quarter of the global ...

May 19, 2026
Phys.org / Image: NASA's Psyche mission captures Mars' Huygens Crater

Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA's Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper right; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / This German dialect leaves AI baffled, exposing a digital language blind spot

How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now investigated this question for the first time. Meenzerisch ...

May 19, 2026
Phys.org / Migrating charges unlock hard-to-reach C-H bond edits in organic molecules

A team at the University of Vienna, led by chemist Nuno Maulide, has developed a new method for controlling chemical reactions in a more targeted and efficient manner. At the heart of this is the concept of "cation sampling": ...

May 19, 2026
Phys.org / eROSITA discovers a 'changing-look' Seyfert galaxy

Astronomers have tracked a dramatic "changing-look" active galactic nucleus (AGN) whose central supermassive black hole appeared to switch off and then rapidly reignite. The galaxy, HE 1237−2252, dimmed in X-rays by a factor ...

May 17, 2026
Tech Xplore / Composite air electrodes enable record-high performance, durability in reversible solid oxide cells

Prof. Jun-Young Park at Sejong University, in collaboration with Prof. Sun-Ju Song (Chonnam National University) and Prof. Jeong-Woo Han (Seoul National University), have published a study in Nature Energy titled "Composite ...

May 20, 2026
Tech Xplore / Alibaba unveils new AI chip as Nvidia access remains stalled

Tech giant Alibaba released on Wednesday a new artificial intelligence chip it said performed three times as well as its predecessor, showcasing growing domestic chipmaker prowess as US titan Nvidia struggles for access to ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / For whistleblowing, bigger rewards can backfire

From JPMorgan Chase to Tesla, whistleblowers have become a central force in corporate accountability, flagging everything from misleading disclosures to safety risks. Regulators have responded in kind, with the Securities ...

May 20, 2026