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Science X / A skin-deep secret—why a fingertip on the palm can be felt as vibration elsewhere

It is not unusual to feel vibrations at another spot on your hand when pressing your fingertip against your palm. It is how the body interprets reality. Your skin interprets and redistributes touch stimuli unexpectedly, serving ...

May 1, 2026
Phys.org / An anomaly in global sea level rise is explained by deep ocean heating

Climate scientists like to keep their accounting books neat and balanced. As climate change alters energy flows all across the planet, which in turn causes effects like sea level rise, ice melt and more, keeping close track ...

Apr 28, 2026
Phys.org / A silent robot shadows sperm whales by listening to their clicks

An autonomous underwater glider is giving us a new and effective way to track sperm whales by tuning into their clicks and silently following them. To study these large oceanic predators, researchers need to monitor their ...

Apr 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Combination therapy could improve outcomes in the most difficult-to-treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease

For patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis who have exhausted other treatment options, a new combination therapy is showing results that offer hope for one of medicine's most treatment-resistant populations, ...

May 5, 2026
Phys.org / Roman cup unearthed in Spain may have been a keepsake representing a soldier's time at the Hadrian Wall

Archaeologists recently analyzed a broken, decorative cup found unexpectedly on a Spanish farm. The cup appears to represent Hadrian's Wall—a place 2,000 miles away—and a time period almost 2,000 years ago. The new study, ...

Apr 29, 2026
Phys.org / GP Com observations sharpen picture of a rare ultracompact binary system

Using the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian astronomers have conducted optical photometric observations of an ultracompact binary known as GP Com. Results of the observational campaign, presented in the ...

Apr 30, 2026
Phys.org / Oldest burial in Patagonia reveals early human settlement along South America's Atlantic coast

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent. However, routes along the Atlantic coast were typically much younger than their Pacific counterparts, ...

Apr 29, 2026
Phys.org / How temperature swings impact the growth of young songbirds

Climate change threatens to cause increasingly extreme and variable temperature swings, affecting everything from urban infrastructure to global food supplies. In the animal kingdom, the hardest hit may be the youngest and ...

Apr 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cell-by-cell analysis uncovers 345 risk genes across six neuropsychiatric disorders

The emergence of neuropsychiatric disorders, conditions that affect various brain functions and behaviors, is known to be driven by an intricate combination of factors. These can include both a genetic predisposition and ...

May 1, 2026
Phys.org / Is the Large Magellanic Cloud a first-time visitor?

Our most massive satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been the center of a heated debate in the astrophysics community over the last few years. That debate centers on whether this is the LMC's first or ...

May 4, 2026
Science X / Forget the caveman myth: Neanderthal brains challenge what we thought we knew

We appear to have more in common with our Neanderthal cousins than outward appearances would suggest. New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the differences between ...

Apr 28, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists use lasers to determine the age of sharks

Not many scientific studies sound like a Bond film, but ours really does involve lasers, sharks and doctors (of research, not the evil kind).

May 4, 2026