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Medical Xpress / Research strengthens evidence linking alcohol use to cancer
As Americans gear up for the holiday season, new research offers a timely reminder to reflect on the long-term health effects of raising a celebratory glass—or two. Alcohol is known to increase the risk of several cancers ...
Tech Xplore / AI's $400 bn problem: Are chips getting old too fast?
In pursuit of the AI dream, the tech industry this year has plunked down about $400 billion on specialized chips and data centers, but questions are mounting about the wisdom of such unprecedented levels of investment.
Phys.org / The rhythm of swarms: Tunable particles synchronize movement like living organisms
A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and Forschungszentrum Jülich has achieved the first fully tunable experimental realization of a long predicted "swarmalator" system. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...
Phys.org / Implantable sensor uses engineered bacteria for wireless molecular tracking
Scientists from Turkey have designed a next-generation implantable biosensor using genetically engineered E. coli for molecular-level monitoring within the body that runs on its own, wirelessly, with no external batteries ...
Phys.org / Modified bacterial transport system imports artificial amino acids for efficient designer protein creation
Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling the creation of innovative and highly efficient designer proteins. These can be used as more efficient ...
Phys.org / Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24% of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, study finds
Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major African-led study revealing that sub-Saharan Africa has already lost 24% of its biodiversity since pre-industrial ...
Phys.org / Simulation may illuminate safer cannabinoid drugs
New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may still have pharmaceutical value if researchers could nail down the causes of those side effects. A ...
Phys.org / Estimating stellar-mass compact object accretion in AGN disks with a new method
A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects (COs)—including black ...
Phys.org / Earlier ultra-relativistic freeze-out could revive a decades-old theory for dark matter
A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from Standard Model particles far earlier than previous theories had suggested.
Phys.org / Direct observation reveals 'two-in-one' roles of plasma turbulence
Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong magnetic fields. However, plasma naturally develops fluctuations known as turbulence, and they carry ...
Phys.org / 'Light-bending' material that controls blue and ultraviolet light could transform advanced chipmaking
Researchers from TU Delft and Radboud University (The Netherlands) have discovered that the two-dimensional ferroelectric material CuInP₂S₆ (CIPS) can be used to control the pathway and properties of blue and ultraviolet ...
Phys.org / Satellite tracking helps map massive rupture of 2025 Myanmar earthquake
The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault systems behave, including California's San Andreas Fault. Earthquakes are notoriously messy and complex, ...
