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Medical Xpress / The hum that only a few can perceive: Potential sources of a low-frequency sound

Some people occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn't have a clear source. An estimated 2–4% of the world's population hear this. Scientists have been trying to figure out for decades where this sound ...

Jun 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / After early pregnancy loss, 'what if' thinking affects 72% within first week

When a person goes through a traumatic experience, they often find themselves thinking that what happened could have been different or even avoided. This process, known as counterfactual thinking, is an automatic psychological ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Animals were sharpening their senses long before the Cambrian explosion, ancient tracks reveal

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, paving the way for animal ...

Jun 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / Ultra-thin semiconductors overcome performance limits with localized thick-contact design

As semiconductor chips become increasingly thinner, the components inside chips are locked in a fierce race to achieve the ultimate ultra-thin state. However, this has presented a structural limitation: the thinner the device, ...

Jun 2, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality

EPFL researchers are developing AI models that could one day enable vision prosthetics able to restore meaningful, object-level sight for the blind. The research, from the NeuroAI Lab of Martin Schrimpf, part of EPFL's Schools ...

Jun 2, 2026
Medical Xpress / Retraining the immune system to treat type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks islets, certain areas of the pancreas, and destroys cells that would otherwise produce insulin, a hormone crucial for regulating blood ...

Jun 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Experts highlight limits of evidence from ultraprocessed food trials

A group of eating behavior and metabolism experts from across Europe have published a Perspective article in the journal Science examining the limitations of current evidence on ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).

Jun 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Potential gene therapy for late-stage Parkinson's side-effects uncovered

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that suppressing excitatory synaptic transmission in a small group of neurons in the brain may reverse levodopa-induced dyskinesia in patients with late-stage Parkinson's disease ...

Jun 3, 2026
Phys.org / Strain creates moiré 2D materials without twisting or stacking, opening more scalable route

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns—atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors—without relying on the traditionally used difficult-to-control twisting and stacking ...

Jun 2, 2026
Phys.org / HETDEX opens massive Cosmic Noon dataset to scientists, novices and AI

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)—which recently completed the largest survey ever taken of the early universe—has released all of its immense, information-rich database to the public. Built from ...

Jun 3, 2026
Phys.org / How Florida's 'war on woke' reframed responsible investment as a threat to 'everyday people'

Fossil fuel companies were a major force behind the United States (US) state of Florida's move to stop banks and pension funds from investing in companies that prioritized environmental and social governance (ESG), new research ...

Jun 5, 2026
Phys.org / Portable UV spectrometer can detect air pollutants across 2.5 km with high precision

Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt and her team at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have developed a new type of UV dual-comb spectrometer that detects gaseous air pollutants with ...

Jun 3, 2026