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Phys.org / Accelerating next generation medicine with new drug delivery platform

Scientists have developed an adaptable materials platform that can safely and efficiently deliver a wide range of genetic medicines, an advance that could accelerate the development of next-generation vaccines, cancer treatments, ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / How natural language processing and AI can help policymakers address global food insecurity

NLP offers powerful opportunities to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—including SDG2 (Zero Hunger). In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, mounting climate change impacts, and other ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Oxytocin-sensitive brain circuit may keep social bonds active under stress

The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone and is best known for promoting social behavior. However, ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / US AI giants accuse Chinese rivals of mass data theft

US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Medical Xpress / Preclinical or clinical? New obesity definition could reshape diagnosis and prevention

An international research group has examined how many people are affected by preclinical and clinical obesity and what health risks are associated with this. The team led by Prof. Matthias Schulze from the German Institute ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Overweight & Obesity
Phys.org / The optical engineering required to photograph an Earth twin

More and more papers are coming out about the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). As the telescope moves from theory to practice (and physical manifestation), various working groups are discovering, defining, and ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Metamaterial image sensor keeps colors clear even under oblique light

Smartphone cameras are becoming smaller, yet photos are becoming sharper. Korean researchers have elevated the limits of next-generation smartphone cameras by developing a new image sensor technology that can accurately represent ...

Feb 21, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma that viruses lack protein ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / DeepRare AI outperforms doctors on rare disease diagnosis in head-to-head test

Rare diseases are complex medical disorders that are notoriously difficult to diagnose because many present with a wide variety of symptoms that can overlap with more common illnesses. Currently, around 300 million people ...

Phys.org / Measuring chaos: Researchers quantify the quantum butterfly effect

For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen Li at the University of ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / New 'scimitar-crested' Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara

A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team led by Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University ...

Feb 19, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Exomoons could reveal themselves through lunar eclipses

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a handful are targets for astrobiology ...

Feb 23, 2026 in Astronomy & Space