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Tech Xplore / Students engineer reusable tool to monitor abandoned oil and gas wells

For many mechanical engineering seniors, the Senior Capstone Design experience is the first opportunity to solve a problem without a textbook answer. For six Texas A&M University students, that challenge came from Los Alamos ...

Aug 3, 2026
Science X / One long brisk walk may protect your brain from dementia and anxiety more than short walks put together

Exercise is well known for keeping the brain healthy, but does how we move matter as much as how much we move? In a recent study, researchers investigated whether sustained periods of physical activity offer greater long-term ...

Jul 29, 2026
Medical Xpress / Rural communities face serious obstacles in promoting physical activity

People in rural communities have long experienced disproportionate levels of chronic disease, driven in part by systemic barriers to physical activity. A new study from North Carolina State University highlights ways some ...

Aug 3, 2026
Phys.org / Rideshare launches boost regional GDP and flexible jobs, study finds

Ride-hailing has become a routine part of urban life in the United States, but its broader economic impacts have been difficult to measure. As Uber and Lyft expanded across hundreds of cities over the past decade, they promised ...

Aug 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Nurse-led initiative reduces unplanned extubations

A nurse-led initiative at a New Jersey hospital reversed an upward trend of unplanned extubation rates in its medical intensive care unit (MICU) and maintained the improvement for five years, according to an article published ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Reducing protein intake could support healthy aging by reshaping metabolism

Protein-fortified foods are popping up everywhere, from cereal and coffee to even protein water. But a new review covering more than 350 papers on protein restriction and aging—published July 31 in the journal Cell Press ...

Jul 31, 2026
Phys.org / Bringing complex field physics to the tabletop: A photonic stage for non-Abelian gauge fields

For most theories in physics, the order of operations has little impact on the result. When setting a dial to a certain position, for example, it doesn't matter whether it's turned clockwise or counterclockwise—the result ...

Jul 29, 2026
Tech Xplore / Claude AI finds cryptography weaknesses human experts missed

AI company Anthropic has announced that its unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, has discovered previously unknown mathematical weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms that human researchers had missed for years.

Jul 29, 2026
Phys.org / How molecular tethers and asynchronous replication drive parasite proliferation

Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold before simultaneously producing ...

Aug 1, 2026
Phys.org / Two Arctic charr populations evolved in less than a century, study finds

Evolution, the process through which animals and other living organisms change their inherited traits over time, typically unfolds slowly over thousands or even millions of years. Some species, however, can adapt at a faster ...

Jul 30, 2026
Phys.org / Oil droplets remodel themselves, swallow their surroundings like living cells

NYU researchers have made microscopic oil droplets in water do something usually reserved for living cells: change shape in complex, controllable ways and even engulf their surroundings.

Aug 1, 2026
Tech Xplore / Popular vs. reliable sources—a blind spot in how LLMs assess information

Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning ChatGPT and similar conversational platforms, are now used by many people worldwide to find and summarize information and generate different ...

Jul 30, 2026