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Phys.org / The galaxy's spin is hiding in the hum of gravitational waves

Picture the Milky Way not as a silent pinwheel of stars but as something that quietly sings. Scattered through it are millions of pairs of dead stars, mostly white dwarfs, whirling around each other and stirring ripples in ...

Jun 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI robots can go rogue: A researcher on how easily it happens

Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world record by almost seven ...

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / New toolkit aims to improve menopause care for women from minority ethnic communities

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a new toolkit to support health care professionals in delivering culturally informed menopause care. The work is highlighted in a Correspondence published in The Lancet ...

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Boosting protein folding could protect insulin-making cells in diabetes

Origami masters turn simple sheets of paper into ornate sculptures. In the origami of life, our cells must fold proteins into specific three-dimensional shapes before they can carry out their biological jobs. This folding ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / The 'right to repair' movement has a point, but consumers should read the warranty fine print first

The "right to repair" movement is gaining steam as consumers push corporations to offer them more freedom to fix products—from cars to dishwashers to toys.

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Hidden switch lets two of four receptor subunits open brain ion channel

To transmit excitatory signals, nerve cells mostly use glutamate as a neurotransmitter. To detect these transmitter signals, the cells can rely on a whole repertoire of receptors with different signaling properties. Researchers ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Chemical impurities make carbon surfaces superslippery, researchers find

Engineers often treat impurities as a problem to eliminate to improve material performance. But new research from Osaka Metropolitan University and Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM suggests that in some ...

Jun 14, 2026
Medical Xpress / Long-read DNA test lifts rare disease diagnoses and could replace 15 other tests

A new test provides a much more complete picture of DNA than current standard diagnostics and leads to a diagnosis more often. The test can replace 15 other tests, making it faster and more efficient. Researchers from Radboud ...

Jun 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Personal time helps parents feel better and recover from stress

Parents who find time for themselves feel better and show healthier physiological stress patterns on the same day, according to my new research. The findings suggest that even small moments away from daily demands may help ...

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Researcher finds gender gap in kidney transplant referrals

Female patients with kidney failure are significantly less likely to be referred to a transplant center for assessment, according to a new study from ICES, London Health Sciences Center Research Institute (LHSCRI) and Western ...

Jun 15, 2026
Medical Xpress / Vitamin C levels in blood plasma linked with brain connectivity and volume in older adults

A study of 2,044 older Japanese adults found that those with lower vitamin C levels in their blood plasma tended to have a lower volume of gray matter in their brains, as well as lower connectivity among a collection of brain ...

Jun 13, 2026
Phys.org / Electron matter waves gain ultrafast torque that flips handedness in femtoseconds

Many natural processes, ranging from magnetism to chemical reactions, entail the movement and rotation of particles at very small scales. In quantum mechanics, particles exhibit both particle-like and wave-like behaviors, ...

Jun 11, 2026