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Medical Xpress / AI helps to open new routes to earlier diagnosis and treatment of Crohn's disease

Scientists have combined artificial intelligence (AI), genetics and gut microbiome analysis to shed new light on one of the most serious complications of Crohn's disease: intestinal fibrosis, the irreversible scarring of ...

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Documenting curbside consultations can improve patient safety

Implementing a hospitalwide program for documenting informal clinician consultations improved patient safety through better communication and multidisciplinary care in a pediatric health care system, according to a recent ...

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / New study finds chronological age may not be the best guide to prevention and care

Life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century, thanks to remarkable advances in basic science, medicine and public health. That longer average lifespan, however, brings a greater risk of developing multiple chronic ...

Aug 12, 2026
Phys.org / Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

An international research team partly led by the University of Ottawa reports that Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland calved a 76.4 km² (29.5 square miles) ice island on Aug. 4, 2026, marking the glacier's largest loss ...

Aug 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Schools must adapt to extreme heat in a warming world, report urges

Heat waves pose a growing threat to learning, health and well-being in schools as extreme heat becomes more frequent and intense across the United States, finds a report by the American Psychological Association and the Network ...

Aug 12, 2026
Phys.org / Credit ratings can shape corporate financial decisions

On the surface, credit rating agencies simply score a company's financial health. They look at a business's equity and debt and diagnose how risky it is for investors. They slap on a letter grade to show how likely it is ...

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Two-stage process helps metastatic cancer cells hide, then multiply in the lungs

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process called metastasis. Since it occurs at the cellular level, the earliest stages of metastasis are difficult ...

Aug 8, 2026
Phys.org / Physicists watch a material's electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases

A tall glass of ice water isn't just a thirst quencher; it's also an everyday example of coexisting phases. Water can exist simultaneously in both liquid and solid phases. As it turns out, this phase duality can also exist ...

Aug 7, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI gives tomorrow's wireless networks a clearer voice

Anyone who has struggled through a poor phone call knows the frustration of missing half a conversation. Now researchers at Queen Mary University of London, led by Paul Anthony Haigh, have developed an artificial intelligence ...

Aug 12, 2026
Phys.org / Consistency-based rewards could build lasting cooperation better than punishing free-riders

A vaccine only protects a whole community if enough people get it, including those who would stay safe anyway once their neighbors are covered. The same tension runs through climate action and social movements: The shared ...

Aug 11, 2026
Phys.org / Why do humans use 'baby voice' when speaking to pets?

You walk in a park. Children are playing, people are walking their dogs, and then you hear someone say, "Who's my little sweetie?" You turn around expecting to see a stroller. But someone is sitting beside a dog, speaking ...

Aug 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Anti-Müllerian hormone predicts benefit of chemo + endocrine therapy in under-55s with breast cancer

Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) appears to predict the benefit of chemotherapy plus endocrine therapy (CET) versus ET alone in premenopausal women younger than 55 years with hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor ...

Aug 12, 2026