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Tech Xplore / Building facade solar panels on outside walls can generate power while cutting cooling costs

A team of Chinese researchers has modeled the potential global benefits of installing solar panels on outside building walls, a concept known as facade-integrated photovoltaics (FIPV). They found that solar panels installed ...

4 hours ago
Phys.org / Piezoelectric materials enable a new approach to searching for axions

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, is predicted to account for most of the matter in the universe. As it eludes common experimental techniques for studying ordinary matter, understanding ...

9 hours ago
Phys.org / Global maps show alien plant invasion hotspots shifting poleward

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current conditions and future climate ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / AI-powered 'lab-on-a-chip' platform may enable same-day treatment decisions for pediatric patients

Scientists at the University of Utah (the U) have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" device that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly predict cancer cell sensitivity to targeted therapies for children with T-cell acute lymphoblastic ...

4 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Population-based lung cancer screening can reduce mortality in people who have never smoked, study shows

New evidence from a Chinese cohort presented at the European Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC) 2026 shows that one-time low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening can significantly reduce lung cancer mortality in a non–risk ...

3 hours ago
Phys.org / Unraveling the secrets of telomerase, an enzyme linked to aging and cancer

A central question in molecular biology is how cells protect their chromosomes from damage during repeated cell division. At the heart of this protective process is an enzyme called telomerase. Now an international research ...

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Phys.org / Designing proteins by their motion, not just their shape

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's molecular machines. They walk, stretch, bend, and flex to do their jobs, pumping blood, fighting ...

6 hours ago
Phys.org / Exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe

A German-Bulgarian research team led by SNSB paleontologist Christian Bartel has discovered a new species of harvestman in 35-million-year-old Ukrainian and Baltic amber. The animal is related to harvestmen that are now extinct ...

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Medical Xpress / Why COVID and flu hit older lungs harder: Aging tissue may bring on immune dysregulation

Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings enhance ...

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Medical Xpress / A new view of intestinal regeneration: What fetal reversion could mean for IBD and cancer

Dynamic switching between revival stem cells and conventional intestinal stem cells enables efficient tissue repair without exhausting the stem cell pool, report researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo. Using organoid ...

3 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Yahoo turns to AI-powered answer engine Scout to lead it back to its roots in online search

Internet trailblazer Yahoo is exploring technology's next frontier with Scout, an answer engine powered by artificial intelligence. Scout seems insightful, based on its response to a question posed by The Associated Press ...

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Phys.org / Unlocking the cell's 'gatekeeper': Researchers discover critical RNA quality-control factor, LENG8

How do cells ensure that the "blueprints" of genetic information-RNA are accurate and intact before they are exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm for protein production? A study led by Professor Yongsheng Shi's team ...

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