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Tech Xplore / Power grid testing boosts distribution innovations to utility scale

A historic legacy now translates to pioneering capabilities in electric grid technology at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The secure electrical infrastructure that enabled World War II nuclear advances ...

Jan 13, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / High-speed AFM imaging reveals how brain enzyme forms a dodecameric ring structure

Scientists at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Jan 12, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Nightingales strike right chord in territorial singing duels

During conversation, people sometimes synchronize their voices in ways that often go completely unnoticed. Talking speeds converge, sentence lengths shift, turn-taking rhythms fall into sync. New research from the Max Planck ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Genomic study uncovers button mushroom's evolutionary and domestication history

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), one of the most widely cultivated edible fungi in the world.

Jan 12, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / El Niño events projected to cut life expectancy gains and cost trillions by 2100

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, rainfall, and extreme weather around the world. Its impact ranges from heat waves and floods to air ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth
Tech Xplore / Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition

It won't be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing ...

Jan 13, 2026 in Business
Medical Xpress / Minimum wage hikes linked to lower rates of pregnancy-related hypertension

Increases to the minimum wage may do more than bolster household income, reduce inequality and enhance worker well-being: They may also help make pregnancies safer, according to new research from Rutgers University.

Jan 13, 2026 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Phys.org / Surprise discovery reveals silica's hidden potential in flat optics

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, to make optical metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat structures that control light at the nanoscale and ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Abnormally slow heart rate associated with xylazine-fentanyl overdose

Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help emergency medicine physicians ...

Jan 13, 2026 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Mechanism behind persistent autoimmune joint destruction revealed in new study

Nearly 1.5 million Americans and nearly 5% of women over the age of 55 have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an incurable autoimmune disease marked by joint inflammation and subsequent damage. Despite advances in treatment, such ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Arthritis & Rheumatism
Medical Xpress / Study searches Strava to reveal secrets to happier runs

As runners set their New Year's resolutions, Simon Fraser University researchers have dug thousands of Strava posts to map the emotional highs and lows of running and see what makes people stick with it.

Jan 13, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Tech Xplore / Volvo Cars pauses battery factory after fruitless partner search

Swedish automaker Volvo Cars said Tuesday that it was pausing operations at a battery factory under construction, dismissing all 75 workers there, after failing to find a partner for the business.

Jan 13, 2026 in Automotive