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Medical Xpress / Origins of COPD may lie in how some children's lungs develop, but only when they are exposed to polluted air

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious, incurable lung disease that is common in older people. However, researchers are learning that the origins of the disease may lie decades earlier in how children's ...

7 hours ago
Medical Xpress / NFL settlement testing may miss measurable cognitive decline in players with advanced CTE

Researchers at Boston University have completed the largest study to date characterizing the cognitive symptoms of NFL players with confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) who underwent neuropsychological tests while ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Levitated magnet opens new frontier in search for ultraheavy dark matter

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the hunt for some of the heaviest possible forms of the invisible matter thought to hold galaxies together. ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Traumatic brain injury recovery follows different neurological paths with age

Conventional wisdom holds that younger brains are better equipped to recover from injury. Their greater flexibility allows them to adapt, rebuild connections and compensate for damage in ways older brains often cannot. But ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / New insights on the optimal duration of antiplatelet therapy after stent implantation

Antiplatelet monotherapy reduced bleeding, but dual therapy provided greater cardiovascular event protection in patients at high ischemic risk who had undergone stent implantation 12 months earlier. These results, from the ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Indonesia rescues second orangutan mother and baby from wildfire

An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by wildfires encroaching on their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier this week, authorities said in a statement Saturday.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / How haze from Indonesian fires impacts Southeast Asia

Thick smog has blanketed parts of Indonesia as the vast archipelago battles fires that have burned large swaths of Borneo and Sumatra for weeks.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / AI could undermine managers' judgment unless used carefully, study warns

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) has become a routine part of working life, but overreliance on the technology may erode managers' ability to build moral insights, contextual understanding and know-how to get a ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result shows that a fundamental ...

Sep 2, 2026
Phys.org / Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern

For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelgeuse using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Led by Bill Dent at the University of Manchester, ...

Sep 4, 2026
Phys.org / Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer

Venus is one of the solar system's most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called "Earth's twin" because of its similar size and density, but it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction of most planets, has surface ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / Particle shape and size predict asteroid strength, revealing Bennu's surface is 50 times weaker than ground coffee

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular asteroids, showing that their tensile strength can be predicted from the size and shape of their constituent ...

Sep 4, 2026