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Tech Xplore / AI models nearly erase female characters when they write kids stories about animals

Last year, Melanie Walsh, a University of Washington assistant professor in the Information School, wrote an article examining how 300 popular children's books gendered their animal characters. Of the 13 most common animals, ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Pumas make roads safer for drivers by changing prey behavior patterns

Living among large predatory carnivores could actually make you safer. A study published in the journal Current Biology found that pumas—wild cats also known as mountain lions, cougars or panthers—change deer behavior, leading ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Seven new diamond frog species reveal Madagascar's hidden amphibian diversity

An international team of scientists has described seven new species of Madagascar's elusive diamond frogs (Rhombophryne), revealing that one of the island's most mysterious groups of amphibians is even more diverse than previously ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / A 'molecular switch' that heals the gut—and that colorectal cancer hijacks to spread

Digestion is hard on the cells that line the human gut, and they are constantly being shed and replaced. This renewal is driven by a population of tireless stem cells. These stem cells can both replace the various types of ...

Aug 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study uses living human brain tissue to map how electric stimulation affects neurons and genetic activity

Neurons that once encoded a person's memories are now helping researchers identify genetic targets that may one day help preserve memory and slow cognitive decline in others.

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Life speaks one universal language to activate genes: It speaks many more to silence them

The signals that cells use to switch genes on have remained almost unchanged across 2 billion years of evolution, but the ones used to switch genes off vary dramatically from one branch of life to another, according to a ...

Aug 3, 2026
Phys.org / Seaweed-derived coating keeps strawberries fresher than a fridge

University of British Columbia researchers have developed an edible, seaweed-derived coating that can keep strawberries fresh for at least four days at room temperature, outperforming uncoated berries stored in the refrigerator.

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Male sperm whales produce loudest communication sounds ever measured in any mammal

Deep in the world's oceans, large male sperm whales emit slow, low-frequency clicks with the highest source levels of any animal communication sounds. These slow clicks are not the echolocation clicks the whales use to locate ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / First complete marmoset genome will enable research on Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative diseases

To study complex diseases like Alzheimer's, scientists and clinicians analyze how genes change and malfunction in other species. Marmosets, a species of tiny monkey from South America, have become an important animal model ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Human activity more than doubles Arctic fire occurrence, satellite analysis suggests

Fires in the Arctic are not solely a regional issue, as shown by the hazy skies in Switzerland last summer despite otherwise sunny weather. Smoke from major fires in northern Canada crossed the Atlantic and reached Europe. ...

Aug 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / Bringing 'giant batteries' closer to commercialization in the AI data center era

The explosive growth of AI data centers has brought the commercialization of "giant batteries" one step closer. A KAIST research team has developed a process that cuts the production time for a core material used in large-capacity ...

Aug 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / Selective microwave heating speeds bamboo-to-hydrogen fuel conversion

Researchers at Kyushu University have shown that microwave (MW) radiation can dramatically speed the conversion of biomass into useful gases by creating localized high-temperature regions on nickel nanoparticles. Using advanced ...

Aug 4, 2026