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Tech Xplore / AI-powered solar aquaculture reveals a scalable pathway for food, energy and climate action

Researchers in Taiwan demonstrate that installing solar panels above clam ponds can simultaneously support aquaculture and renewable energy under increasing climate stress. Using real-world farm data, the study shows that ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Anticipating aging-related mental decline using saliva samples and AI

As humans age beyond early adulthood, their physical and mental functions tend to slowly worsen over time. One of the most common sources of severe mental decline in older adults are neurodegenerative diseases, conditions ...

Feb 1, 2026 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Phys.org / How to close the justice gap: What a health-linked legal model showed in three years

A three-year study has found that legal services work best when they are designed with communities, delivered face-to-face and closely linked to health and well-being, offering important lessons for improving access to justice ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / 'Dispersal-driven' evolution fuels diversity at the air-liquid interface

As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and liquid. In laboratory culture, the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 is widely known for doing ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / A minimalist bacterial defense strategy: Scientists discover single protein that disrupts viral assembly

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein that can both sense and counteract viral infections. In the study, published in Nature, researchers ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Jan 30, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats up

Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.

Feb 5, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Phys.org / High-entropy garnet crystal enables enhanced 2.8 μm mid-infrared laser performance

Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully grew a high-entropy garnet-structured oxide crystal and achieved enhanced laser performance at the 2.8 ...

Feb 5, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Reuniting forcibly separated families: How a machine-learning model can help

Around the world, millions of families have suffered forcible separation, through war, trafficking, natural disasters, or socioeconomic crises. In China, family separation is a particularly large-scale and far-reaching problem. ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Overactive immune cells can worsen heart failure. Targeting them could offer new treatments

Around 64 million people worldwide suffer from heart failure, and nearly half die within the first five years of diagnosis due to a lack of effective treatments to stop the disease from getting worse.

Feb 5, 2026 in Cardiology
Phys.org / Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now "urgently practical," according ...

Feb 3, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Nanobodies: A cure for treatment-resistant depression depression?

A new study led by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Kirill Martemyanov, Ph.D., and international collaborators highlights a new approach to treating depression that bypasses many limitations of traditional ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Nanotechnology