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Phys.org / Meet NASA's Artemis Closeout Crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the process of getting inside and secured—in this case, in NASA's Orion spacecraft—requires help. ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Multi-agent AI could change everything—if researchers can figure out the risks

You might have seen headlines sounding the alarm about the safety of an emerging technology called agentic AI.

Dec 23, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Phys.org / A dance of galaxies: JWST captures interacting dwarf galaxies

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025.

Dec 22, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Instacart ends AI pricing test that charged shoppers different prices for the same items

Instacart will stop using artificial intelligence to experiment with product pricing after a report showed that customers on the platform were paying different prices for the same items.

Dec 23, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Does being infected or vaccinated first influence COVID-19 immunity?

A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important question: does it matter whether a person was first infected or first vaccinated?

Dec 23, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Automatic label checking: The missing step in making medical AI reliable

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered a practical way to detect and fix common labeling errors in large radiographic collections. By automatically verifying body-part, projection, and rotation tags, ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Radiology & Imaging
Phys.org / China's durian craze has turned this tropical fruit into a tool of diplomacy

Distinctive in taste and famously divisive, durian is not everyone's choice of fruit. This was certainly the case for some Chinese explorers when they first encountered it during the Ming Dynasty's early maritime voyages.

Dec 26, 2025 in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / Technology that helps robots read human intentions could lead to safer, smarter, more trustworthy machines

Robots are becoming part of our everyday lives, from health care to home assistance. But for humans to truly trust and collaborate with them, robots need more than technical skill—they need to understand us.

Dec 23, 2025 in Robotics
Medical Xpress / Locally brewed alcohol and chewing tobacco drive 62% of mouth cancer cases in India, study suggests

Even a low daily intake of alcohol—just 9 g or around one standard drink—is linked to a 50% heightened risk of mouth (buccal mucosa) cancer in India, with the greatest risk associated with locally brewed alcohol, finds ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Tech Xplore / New calibration module offers improved measurement of thermoelectric device performance

A standard reference thermoelectric module (SRTEM) for objectively measuring thermoelectric module performance has been developed in Korea for the first time. A research team led by Dr. Sang Hyun Park at the Korea Institute ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Nine-gene blood signature and methylene blue offer hope for cerebral malaria

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, long-term disability, and economic disruption. According to the World Health Organization, the disease ...

Medical Xpress / Probiotics can restore gut microbiome in breastfed infants, study shows

In recent years, scientists have learned that the key beneficial infant gut bacteria Bifidobacterium infantis are disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the United States and Europe. A new study published ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Pediatrics